Why we are on the verge of diabetes & tuberculosis epidemic
Figures show that diabetes triples the risk of a person developing TB, and experts fear that with diabetes rates soaring, recent progress in tackling TB could go into reverse.
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Adrian Kelly has been sober for nearly two years after battling an alcohol addiction that nearly killed him. Memories are hazy, but his drinking diaries reveal the extent of his illness at its worst.
Environment Secretary Liz Truss says Britain’s bees need to be treated like Premier League players – but perhaps we should value them more than football’s best paid. Here’s why.
As the spectre of war, pestilence and economic hardship hangs over us, a commercialised autumn festival of horror may not be what we need right now.
Lavishing praise on pupils is unlikely to help them improve in the classroom, new research says. Here are three things that are likely to help – and three that probably will not.
Figures show that diabetes triples the risk of a person developing TB, and experts fear that with diabetes rates soaring, recent progress in tackling TB could go into reverse.
The spiralling costs of severe weather events more than justify the Met Office’s massive expenditure on a new supercomputer.
A gunman is shot down inside Canada’s parliament building after fatally shooting a soldier guarding the National War Memorial. The city remains under lockdown as police check for more assailants.
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After the death of a woman who targeted the McCann family with online abuse, Channel 4 News finds a website that has assembled 27 dossiers on people it claims post “McCann hate”.
The Chinese press is branding the protesters extremists and agents of chaos and disruption – but I have rarely seen such a mild mannered mass protest.
Now in its 30th year, the annual Turner Prize exhibition opens on Tuesday and features a wealth of multi-media material from four shortlisted artists. Here’s a sneak peek at what is on offer.
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