BBC News During 2022 – which saw the highest recorded temperature in England at 40.3C – there were an estimated 2,985 so-called “excess deaths” as a result of the heat, external, the most recorded in any given year. There were an estimated 1,311 heat-associated deaths, external during summer 2024, and an estimated 1,504, external during […]
BBC News A few warm or hot days will return Scotland and Northern Ireland will have a wet and windy spell on Saturday, with western Scotland seeing the heaviest rain. A band of rain, some thundery, will progress south-eastwards on Sunday but it will become lighter and more fragmented before reaching southern and eastern England, […]
BBC News Everton and Crystal Palace have completed the swap deal involving Dwight McNeil and Brennan Johnson. The Toffees have confirmed 25-year-old Johnson has signed a four-year contract while McNeil will move in the opposite direction to Selhurst Park. McNeil, 26, almost joined Palace in February, when the Eagles agreed a loan-to-buy deal that would […]
BBC News Available for over a year Since the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the case against Luigi Mangione has become about more than just the evidence that will be tested in court. Across politics, social media and the news media, competing groups have sought to frame the story through their own lens, linking […]
BBC News Donald Trump secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month in response to a possible Iranian threat, US media report. The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being smuggled onto an elevated airport catering truck and transported to a military aircraft, without […]
BBC News An expansion proposal by the airport’s owners would enable it to accommodate 150m passengers per year. Heathrow said “the case for expansion has never been clearer”. In a statement, it added: “Our plans will ensure the country gets the infrastructure it needs to stay competitive and will deliver all-important economic growth.” The airport […]
Digital Trends In this age of AI, fake photos have become a genuine concern. But Apple might be planning on dealing with this with its next major iteration of iOS. Code discovered in iOS 27 beta 5 by 9to5Mac points to an unreleased feature called Apple Reference Image. The system is designed to authenticate that […]
Digital Trends Just when you thought Apple had quietly shelved its big glass iPhone redesign, word comes that the plan is still very much alive. Writing for Bloomberg, famed leaker Mark Gurman has said that the 20th-anniversary iPhone with a radical all-glass design is still on track for the 2027 release. So was the all […]
BBC News The exchange, which drew relatively little interest when the episode aired, has resurfaced after Tokyo’s former ambassador to Canberra Shingo Yamagami labelled Albanese’s comments a “sexist joke” and said they “betrayed the close bond” between Japan and Australia. “The last thing [Takaichi] expected was to be so casually mocked by the trusted leader […]
