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A London surgeon has carried out the UK’s first long-distance robotic operation on a patient 1,500 miles away. Using a console to control the hands of a surgical robot in Gibraltar, Professor Prokar Dasgupta removed a cancerous prostate tumour from 62-year-old Paul Buxton.

‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier? An old Dutch ritual of going outside to watch the coming of night – or dusking – is having a revival across Europe. Fans of the practice say it’s a great way to disconnect from screens and find peace

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EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

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Donald Trump has fired Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, capping weeks of complaints about her leadership and reports she was involved in a personal relationship with a top deputy.

Campaigners have accused the UK government of in effect allowing child abuse to continue by having an “inconsistent and arbitrary” approach to implementing recommendations from a seven-year statutory inquiry.

The MP whose husband was arrested this week on suspicion of spying for China has resigned the Labour whip while an internal investigation is carried out.

Shabana Mahmood has put herself on a collision course with Labour MPs after announcing a set of changes to the immigration system that one backbencher said mimicked Donald Trump.

Israel’s military has ordered the entire population of Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate, as it continued to bomb Lebanon and Iran, while Tehran launched retaliatory strikes against Israel and US bases across the region.

Gen Zs have discovered a love of booze now that they’re out of their teenage years, challenging their reputation as “generation sensible”, says The Guardian. Almost 70% of 23-year-olds say they’ve gone on a proper bender in the past year, while nearly a third now do so at least once a month.

Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter the jobs market so they can support themselves, the Home Office said, as part of a package of measures to be announced on Thursday.

The House oversight committee has voted to subpoena US attorney general Pam Bondi to answer questions over the justice department’s handling of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein.

The BBC is to call for an end to political appointments to its board as part of sweeping changes designed to protect its independence.

A former Labour adviser married to a Labour MP is among three men who have been arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

A torpedo fired by a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the south coast of Sri Lanka as the Trump administration followed through on its threats to destroy Tehran’s military and political leadership.

Remarkable skies are expected across the UK from tomorrow as a vast plume of Saharan dust drifts over the country. The north African sand will transform sunrises and sunsets into striking displays of deep gold, amber and burnt orange.

The UK is invoking its 1st ever “emergency brake” on issuing visas to nationals from 4 countries, after ministers concluded that the system was being exploited by asylum seekers. Study visa applications from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan will be halted, & skilled worker visas for Afghans.

After the Baftas 2026 coverage, Alan Cumming has joined the chorus of disapproval at the BBC’s failure to edit out a racial slur from their Baftas telecast, saying it turned the event “into a trauma-triggering shitshow”.

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave, according to polling.

The US justice department has dropped legal proceedings against four law firms that stood up to retaliatory executive actions by Donald Trump for representing clients or causes the president did not like.

A doctor who gave crucial expert evidence for the prosecution of the nurse Lucy Letby was under investigation at the time due to serious concerns about his fitness to practice.

Israel and the US intensified their attacks on Iran as Donald Trump said he had rejected what he claimed was an attempt by Tehran to restart negotiations.

A Kenyan school like no other may be an African education blueprint Rare Gem Talent School in Kenya uses hands-on lessons for students with dyslexia. Despite increased access to public education, students with learning disabilities often struggle.

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Left-handed people are more likely than right-handers to be “hyper-competitive”, according to a new Italian study of more than 1,100 people. This supposed competitive edge may help explain why lefties, who make up just 10% of the population, are over-represented in sports such as tennis and boxing.

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UK programmes to protect nature and the climate in developing countries are suffering budget cuts despite ministers’ promises, the Guardian has learned.

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to legalise hydrolysis, an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial, reflecting increasing demand for more sustainable funeral arrangements.

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to legalise hydrolysis, an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial, reflecting increasing demand for more sustainable funeral arrangements.

Nigel Farage has been accused of Donald Trump-style election denial by the Green party’s new MP for Gorton and Denton, after he claimed her Reform rival “came first” among British-born voters in last week’s byelection.

More than 100,000 Britons were stranded in the Gulf on Monday, with airspace in the region still closed to most flights and overland evacuation regarded as risky.

Israel’s determination to attack Iran and the certainty US troops would be targeted in response forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes, Marco Rubio said, in a new explanation for Washington’s surprise entry into the conflict.