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ADVERTISEMENT Portugal has recorded 284 deaths during the ongoing heatwave, the country’s Directorate-General for Health (DGS) has said. According to preliminary data from the DGS, more than 70% of the deaths, …

Published on 28/06/2025 – 9:00 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT The deadliest diseases in Europe aren’t caused by viruses – they are chronic health conditions that could be largely avoided with better medical …

The legacy of Captain Jerry Boylan will forever be known as the man who defied every sea captain’s dogma: The captain goes down with the ship. Born into a life …

Moshe Ehrlich was engrossed in Torah studies at his college one afternoon when he was told his wife was calling on the school’s emergency line. Frantic, she wanted to know …

There is a growing subculture of amateur explorers building homemade submarines in their backyards and garages. But it might be driven by something more insidious than a quirky passion for …

Sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen blew up bridges and railway tracks with dynamite, smuggled Jewish children out of concentration camps and executed as many Nazis as they could, using a firearm …

Cholera outbreak is centred around the capital city, Khartoum, which has been devastated by more than two years of war. A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s Khartoum has killed at least …

At least 29 children and elderly people have died from “starvation-related” deaths in the Gaza Strip in recent days, the Palestinian health minister says, warning that thousands more are at …

ADVERTISEMENT Wildfires driven by climate change contribute to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic costs from wildfire smoke in the US, according to …

A ‘forever chemical’ in thousands of cosmetic products could be responsible for over 350,000 heart disease deaths each year, a government-funded study suggests. Researchers in New York City combed through …