Prime minister to express concern about ‘over-medicalising’ normal worries with diagnoses as mental health conditions Rishi Sunak will today claim Britain is suffering from a “sicknote culture”, as he warns there is a risk of “over-medicalising” normal worries by diagnosing them as mental health conditions. In a speech on how […]
Dubai-based carriers Emirates and FlyDubai divert around western Iran early on Friday after Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reports explosions in central city of Isfahan Follow all our Middle East crisis coverage Here is a map of Iran – you can see Tehran and its proximity to Isfahan. Iran has […]
First phase in world’s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period Voting has begun in India’s mammoth general election, as Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party hopes to increase its parliamentary majority amid allegations that the country’s democracy has been undermined since it came […]
LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information – with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK University students have turned to cyber fraud to boost their income, police have said, as they revealed they have infiltrated a huge phishing site on the dark […]
Officials at Department for Work and Pensions accused of ‘threatening and cruel’ tactics over repayment orders Woman with dementia, 92, told to repay £7,000 in disability allowance Government officials have been accused of using “threatening and cruel” tactics towards unpaid carers by saying they could face even greater financial penalties […]
IDF confirms buying thousands of tents for evacuation, raising fears over long-threatened attack Israel has reportedly deployed extra artillery and armoured personnel carriers to the Gaza Strip periphery, suggesting that the military is preparing for its long-threatened ground offensive on Rafah, the only place of relative safety for at least […]
Mark Menzies allegedly spent £14,000 of campaign funds on medical costs and demanded £6,500 from aide to escape captors A Conservative MP has lost the party whip after an investigation was launched following claims that he misused campaign funds. Mark Menzies, 52, also faced allegations that he made a late-night […]
Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses say Drug shortages are a “new normal” in the UK and are being exacerbated by Brexit, a report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank has warned. A dramatic recent spike […]
Iran’s chargé d’affaires in London said his country would respond more severely if Israel attacked it again in ‘another mistake’ Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat […]
City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year as rain floods highways and homes Heavy rains have hit the United Arab Emirates, flooding major highways and disrupting flights at Dubai international airport – in what the government has described as […]