Gender inequality and discrimination impede timely diagnoses and quality care for women around the world, says report Health experts are calling for a “feminist approach” to cancer to eliminate inequalities, as research reveals 800,000 women worldwide are dying needlessly every year because they are denied optimal care. Cancer is one […]
Judge refuses to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former US president of illegally inflating assets and net worth, as his lawyers say they’ll appeal Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House, a New York judge ruled on […]
UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’ The UN’s refugee agency has rebuked Suella Braverman after she claimed that world leaders had failed to make wholesale reform of human rights laws because of fears of being branded “racist or illiberal”. The UNHCR issued […]
Writers Guild of America said its members could return to work while a ratification vote takes place for fresh three-year contract Hollywood writers are officially ending their five-month strike, after union leaders approved an agreement made with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and sent the full details […]
Exclusive: Chief inspector of prisons says 14 Victorian jails cannot provide proper accommodation for inmates Violence, isolation and rat-infested cells: insiders on the state of English and Welsh prisons One in 10 prisons in England and Wales are barely fit for purpose and should be shut down if alternative buildings […]
Home secretary’s address in Washington will urge reform of UN convention and has already prompted concern from charities Suella Braverman will appeal on Tuesday to world leaders and political thinkers to consider rewriting key refugee rules so they are “fit for the modern age”. In a move to alter an […]
The stricken authority now set to receive a revised emergency budget after Michael Gove was forced to call in commissioners Birmingham city council has voted to approve spending control measures, as well as endorsing a “financial recovery plan” that is already under way. The council debated the plan to tackle […]
The Scottish-born actor was most famous for his stint in the 60s spy TV series, and most recently for his work on NCIS Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series The Man from UNCLE in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the […]
More than 6,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have left region following Azerbaijan victory Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh victory highlights limits of Russia’s power The day the shelling began, Genadi Hyusunts had just taken his four-day-old son home from the hospital. Within hours, he had to hustle his wife, the newborn child and his […]
Return of the largest asteroid sample ever to be recovered marks the culmination of a seven-year journey Sitting isolated in the arid landscape of the Utah desert, its orange and white parachute cast aside, the Osiris-Rex capsule was a picture of stillness. Yet all around, scientists were swinging into action, […]