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Gaza ceasefire deal agreed by Hamas and Israel, Qatari PM says
Hamas and Israel have agreed a ceasefire deal pausing the war in Gaza and designed to broker an end to the brutal 15-month conflict, the mediator Qatar has said, and it is set to be officially accepted by Israel after a cabinet meeting on Thursday.
The announcement on Wednesday night …
Spike in baby deaths on Lucy Letby ward ‘surprising and unusual’, says statistician
The “unusual” spike in baby deaths on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked had a 0.008% probability of occurring given its previous mortality rate, a public inquiry has been told.
Sir David Spiegelhalter, the emeritus professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge, said the sudden rise in deaths in …
Police investigating death of boy, 2, at Merseyside nursery
Police are investigating after a two-year-old boy died at a nursery in Liverpool.
The child, who has not been named, had “a fatal medical episode” at the nursery in Bootle on Tuesday afternoon, Merseyside police said.
The force said in a statement that the boy’s death, at the Early Learners …
Wednesday briefing: What a Gaza ceasefire might look like
Jordan Thompson limps out of Australian Open with straight-sets defeat to Nuno Borges
Australia is left with just a single seed in the men’s draw at Melbourne Park after Jordan Thompson limped out of the tournament on Wednesday, losing his second round clash on John Cain Arena to world No 33 Nuno Borges.
‘I hope peace will prevail’: joy and fear in Gaza amid reports ceasefire is near
Hopes rose across Gaza on Tuesday that the war that has devastated the territory, killing more than 46,000 and displacing millions, was finally over.
Hamas and Israel were in the “final stages” of agreeing a ceasefire agreement
, residents of the embattled territory expressed …Police report says former MLB pitcher Brian Matusz died at 37 of likely overdose
The former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Brian Matusz died at the age of 37 after an apparent drug overdose, according to police documents.
The Orioles announced Matusz’s death last week
. According to a report by the Phoenix Police Departmentobtained by the Baltimore Banner
, Matusz’s body was …Israel admits soldiers used ambulance in raid on refugee camp
The ambulance pulls up on a narrow street at the Balata Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus in the West Bank, seemingly no different from one of the many emergency vehicles that drive in the area every day. But then five armed Israeli soldiers emerge from the vehicle, going on to …
Wellcome Trust charity criticised over £11m in payouts to investment team
The Wellcome Trust, the UK health research charity
, has been criticised for paying its investment executives more than £11m last year, more than 10 times as much as its own governors.The pay packets, which included £5m for Wellcome’s chief investment officer, Nick Moakes, were awarded after …
French TV show pulled after ridicule of woman who fell for AI Brad Pitt
A French woman who believed she was in a long-term romantic relationship with Brad Pitt and was scammed into paying €830,000 (£700,000) to help him with medical treatment faced such a wave of online mockery that a TV programme about her has been withdrawn.
The interior designer, named as Anne, …