Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day could be linked to a longer lifes. Research suggests that when compared to avoiding coffee it was also associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease. The study’s findings applied to ground, instant and decaffeinated versions of the drink and researchers suggested coffee consumption should be considered
Month: September 2022
NASA has successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth. The last image from the “vending machine-sized” collider showed the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos seconds before impact. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the first-ever trial of a “planetary defence system”. If the orbit of an asteroid can be
Images of banknotes featuring a portrait of the King will be revealed by the end of this year – but the public won’t be able to get their hands on the cash until 2024. Under the Bank of England plans, coins and banknotes featuring King Charles III and Queen Elizabeth II will co-circulate. Currency featuring
The husband of OIympic gold medallist Tom Daley has revealed he recently suffered a “serious head injury” and was advised to “shut off my brain” in order to recover. Dustin Lance Black, a US screenwriter, said it had been a “challenging, frightening time” but he was on the “long road back” to being well. Black
New satellite images showing large numbers of Russians fleeing to Georgia and Mongolia have been released after Vladimir Putin’s order to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists for the conflict in Ukraine. The images show queues of vehicles – cargo trucks and cars – waiting in long traffic jams attempting to get over the borders.
The actor behind the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader has signalled that he will be stepping away from the role – but has licensed the use of his voice for future productions. James Earl Jones first voiced Darth Vader in the original 1977 Star Wars movie and went on to perform in The
Sir Keir Starmer will claim a “changed” Labour can turn the UK into a “growth superpower” in his keynote conference speech – as a new poll gave the party its largest lead over the Conservatives in more than two decades. The Labour leader will tell party delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday that Labour’s Green Prosperity
TikTok may face a £27m fine for a possible breach of UK data protection law by failing to protect children’s privacy on the platform. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued the popular video platform with a provisional notice of intent, signalling the warning before a potential fine. Between 2018 and 2020, it says TikTok may
Instagram content viewed by teenager Molly Russell before she took her own life was safe, the social media site’s head of health and wellbeing has told a court. Elizabeth Lagone, a Meta executive, was taken through a number of posts the schoolgirl engaged with on the platform in the last six months of her life. Meta is
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the UK government is putting the economy in danger and attacked Prime Minister Liz Truss’s plan of “trickle-down economics” after the pound sank to a record low against the dollar. Sterling slipped to a low of $1.0327 on Monday, before stabilising at around $1.07, following lows seen after
The brother of a man shot dead in an unsolved murder says he is living in fear of an attack by the killer who is still at large. Alexander Kareem – whose sister is a serving Metropolitan Police officer – was gunned down near his home in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, in June 2020, in
An investigation into a death threat made to JK Rowling over her support of author Salman Rushdie has been dropped by police. Police Scotland said as the threat was not made within the UK, there will be “no further police action at this time”. After hearing about the attack on Sir Salman on 12 August,
Tropical storm Ian has strengthened into a hurricane set to unleash significant winds, flash floods and mudslides in Florida, Cuba and Jamaica, weather experts have warned. The weather system is about 90 miles (150km) southwest of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean Sea, according to the latest advisory issued by the National Hurricane Centre (NHC)
The overnight fall in the value of the pound, descending to its lowest level against the dollar since decimalisation in 1971, matters because of what it says about global market confidence in the UK economy. The plunge in sterling’s value, against a backdrop of a strong dollar globally, gathered speed on Friday following the publication
A man has opened fire on an enlistment centre and another recruitment office has been attacked with Molotov cocktails – after Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of at least 300,000 men in Russia. The violence comes as the first tranche of people ordered to report for duty arrive at military bases, and it follows a
The Bank of England says it “will not hesitate to change interest rates as necessary” after markets reacted badly to the chancellor’s tax-cutting mini-budget. In a statement, the Bank said it was “monitoring developments in financial markets very closely in light of the significant repricing of financial assets”. It came after the pound fell to
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