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Team GB track cyclist Katy Marchant taken to hospital after dramatic crash
The British cyclist Katy Marchant has reportedly suffered a broken arm after a dramatic crash at the UCI Track Champions League meeting in London, which led to the remainder of Saturday’s races being suspended.
Marchant was involved in a collision with the German rider Alessa-Catriona Pröpster during the first round …
Winter fuel crisis: one million elderly already skipping meals and applications system ‘overwhelmed’
decision to slash winter fuel payments
is set to be reignited after new evidence revealed that more than 1 million older people are skipping meals because of financial concerns.The fresh study also suggested that millions are already cutting down on their …
Skier Drew Petersen on shredding powder and stigmas around mental health
From the outside, Drew Petersen is living the dream. As a professional skier, he is paid to travel the world, ski powder, and make turns in front of a camera. It’s the life kids dream of, but it isn’t the full truth.
Petersen, 30, has fought a lifelong battle with …
‘We can’t give up on 1 million children’: the charity bringing psychological first aid to Gazans
In Gaza, where despair is everywhere, hope is the vital currency offered to children and their families by Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, the psychiatrist in charge of running Gaza’s biggest mental health charity.
“Without hope, we cannot pass anything on to those families, to those children,” says Abu Jamei, who …
Limit on human embryo research should be extended to 28 days, says UK regulator
The 14-day limit for human embryo research should be extended to 28 days, the fertility regulator has recommended in a move that could pave the way for breakthroughs in understanding the causes of miscarriages and heart defects.
If adopted in law, this would permit scientists to cultivate embryos to the …
US adds 227,000 jobs in November as Fed expected to cut interest rates again
The US added 227,000 jobs in November, with 54,000 added jobs in healthcare, 53,000 leisure and hospitality jobs and 33,000 government jobs added in the month
The unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, from 4.1% in October.
The final jobs report of 2024 was released prior to the December meeting …
It will take years to clear medical evacuations backlog in Gaza, says WHO
The World Health Organization is warning that the pace of medical evacuations of sick and wounded Palestinians out of Gaza, including several thousand children, is so slow that it will take five to 10 years to clear the backlog at the current rate.
Rik Peeperkorn, the UN global health body’s …
Digested week: style icon Daniel Craig and the king’s portrait hardly anybody wants
Monday
A man dies on the sidewalk at the hands of a masked gunman and much of the commentary around it is unsympathetic. While details of the killing of Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street this week are still emerging, the assumption is that his murder relates to his profession …
‘Slapping therapy’ healer jailed for gross negligence manslaughter of woman
Hongchi Xiao was sentenced to 15 years after a …