Life-threatening heat is returning to the West before spreading to the East Coast later this week. This weekend, record highs were tied and broken from Florida to Colorado. Dalhart, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, hit a record high of 103 degrees, w...
Dangerous allergic reactions are rising in England and now cause some 25,000 NHS hospital stays a year, data shows. Health officials say the rate has more than doubled over 20 years, prompting them to issue advice reminding people how to...
Almost all wet wipes will be banned in England under plans to tackle water pollution, environment minister Therese Coffey has told BBC News. The ban on plastic-based wipes should come into force in the next year following a consultation,...
Gene-edited food can now be developed commercially in England following a change in the law. Supporters of the technology say it will speed up the development of hardier crops that will be needed because of climate change. Critic...
The UK is set to enter recession this year but it will be shorter and less severe than previously thought, according to the Bank of England. The slump is now expected to last just over a year rather than almost two as energy bills fall an...
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Record numbers of nurses are quitting the NHS in England, figures show. More than 40,000 have walked away from the NHS in the past year - one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by a health think tank revealed. It said many of these were often hi...
Tomatoes that boost the body's vitamin D could be among the first gene-edited crops allowed on sale in England. Researchers in Norwich created the plants by turning off a specific molecule in their genetic code. A bill will be intr...
The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading across the globe at an unprecedented rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned Cases of the heavily mutated variant have been confirmed in 77 countries. But at ...
People arriving in England will be soon able to reduce their quarantine period by more than half if they pay for a Covid test after five days, the transport secretary has announced. The rules will come into force from 15 December...
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China's foreign minister has accused the US of spreading "conspiracies and lies" about the coronavirus, ratcheting up tensions between the two nations. The US has been infected by a "political virus" that compels some pol...
As the coronavirus - or to be precise Covid-19 - spreads around the world, getting accurate information about the disease becomes ever more important. And in the social media age, that puts a heavy responsibility on the likes of Facebook and...
Facebook has announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that allows people to type just by thinking. It has funded a study that developed machine-learning algorithms capable of turning brain activity into speech It worked on ep...
A student has faced an "unpleasant backlash" over her award-winning chair designed to stop "manspreading". Laila Laurel, from Norwich, won a major award for the seat which is crafted so that men sit with their legs closed...
Former Russian spy and daughter found slumped on a bench in England...
An analysis of nearly one billion Tweets maps the emergence of new words across the USA in unprecedented detail. Feelingscutewith youron fleekeyebrows or with your newbalayage? Or are yourektandbaele...
A banner reading \\\"Refugees welcome\\\" was put up illegally on the base of theStatue of LibertyTuesday afternoon, authorities said. The banner, 3 feet by 20 feet, was unfurled atop the pedestal around 12:50 p.m., according toNat...