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Three people die and 48 rescued near Calais attempting to cross Channel
Michael Mosley remembered by Dr Phil Hammond
I met Michael Mosley in 1995, when he asked me to audition to present a TV series he was creating called
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor
. He wanted someone who wasn’t afraid to take down their own profession and I seemed to fit the bill. I liked him immediately, …Does life feel like it’s speeding up? How to slow down time in 2025
It’s the time of the year for endless cliches. From “tis the season” and “the gift that keeps on giving” to “new year, new you”, there’s nowhere to hide from tired old phrases. One of my favourites is “Christmas comes around quicker each year” – which ignores the fact that …
A laugh a day to keep the winter blues away: the 31-day comedy diet for January
Amid the cascade of solemn, grimly sensible resolutions we inevitably set ourselves at this time of year, there is a task of universal importance that all too often slips through the net: laugh more. It’s something that more or less all of us agree is a good idea – few …
South Korean plane crash: what we know so far
A Jeju Air flight from Bangkok carrying 181 passengers and crew has crashed while attempting a landing at Muan international airport
in south-western South Korea on Sunday morning.All but two of the people onboard Flight 7C2216 are presumed dead
, according to local fire authorities. Two people …
Beaches, beer and a rare suspended lake … why can’t Nigeria attract more tourists?
At the top of the Ado-Awaye hills lies a lake suspended 433 metres above sea level. Local people say the lake is named Iyake (Yoruba for “crying woman”) after a weeping, barren woman who fell in the water hundreds of years ago, conferring on it powers of fertility.
This belief …
WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital
The World Health Organization says it is “appalled” by an Israeli raid which it said had
shut down and partly destroyed
the last major hospital still functioning in northern Gaza.Israel’s “systematic dismantling of the health system” combined with a siege of the population in the north …
‘All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Pope Francis: the books to look forward to in 2025
January
Nonfiction
: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World by Sumit
Paul-Choudhury
(Canongate)
The science journalist, who lost his wife to ovarian cancer, investigates the potent emotional forces that drive us on in the face of great hardship. Why do …
After the show: what happened next to Olympic gender row boxers?
It was the full hero’s welcome for Imane Khelif on her return home from Paris to Algiers. An open-topped bus parade on a humid evening that had followed a meeting with president Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the El Mouradia Palace where she was granted the honorary title of major in the …