Spain records more than 1,000 excess deaths due to June heatwave
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain has attributed 1,028 excess deaths to a blistering heatwave that hit Europe last week – a figure more than double the…
Hospital worker steals £279k of operating theatre equipment - and sells it back to NHS
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn ex-NHS worker faces jail after conning taxpayers’ out of £279,000 – by repeatedly selling the NHS’s own equipment back to them….
Tributes paid to pioneering gynaecological surgeon
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTributes from across the world have been paid to a pioneering obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon who has died aged 81, his son…
Four days to make victims fall in love: How global scammers use US tech to fleece people
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. Read More
New £2.60 charge on anyone ordering from Temu and Shein in EU
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnline shoppers who regularly use low-cost online retailers such as Temu and Shein are being warned to brace for steeper prices from tomorrow with the arrival of…
I was abducted by Boko Haram – our children still face a deadly threat
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAisha was only five years old when Boko Haram militants stormed her village with machetes and butchered her father and brother in…
In France, a funeral home is overwhelmed as the heatwave's death toll rises
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUndertaker Zouhaier Hertelli is receiving panicked calls from families, retirement homes, and even the police desperately trying to find space in refrigerated…
Boy, 10, faces murder charge after baby girl shot dead in St. Louis
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 10-year-old boy is facing a murder charge for shooting a seven-month-old baby girl dead with a gun he found under a…
Serial fare dodger must pay train ticket fines or go to prison
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA serial fare dodger has been warned he could be sent to prison if he fails to pay the fine he was…
This is what screen time does to a child's brain
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe idea that screen time is the contemporary era’s curse, causing a plethora of issues from childhood obesity to mental health issues, has…