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Three people died after they fell from an overcrowded small boat trying to cross from France to the UK on Sunday morning, as 2024 became the deadliest year on record for

perilous sea crossings

.

The boat ran into trouble at around 6am near Blériot-Plage, a public beach …

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, …

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 …

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 …

  • 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 …

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 …

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 …

Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, 25 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II stepped off a private barge to arrive at London’s

Millennium Dome

for its grand opening ceremony. Dressed in a pumpkin-orange coat, she entered the venue with Prince Philip, taking her place alongside Tony and …

January

Nonfiction

The Bright Side

: 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 …

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 …

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