A mother bled to death after botched stomach surgery in Turkey because she could not buy another course of Ozempic, an inquest has found. Glamorous driving test examiner Janet Savage, 54, had travelled to the country to undergo a gastric sleeve operation, supposed to help her lose weight, the coroner was told. She paid £2,750…
Getty Images The independent Pay Review Body recommended a 5.5% increase for health staff in Northern Ireland There will be “large-scale industrial action across the health service” in Northern Ireland if staff do not have pay parity with the rest of the UK, a union representative has said. The news comes after Health Minister Mike…
The M5 in Somerset is closed in both directions after a 17-year-old girl died in a collision. Avon and Somerset Police said the incident, involving a pedestrian and a car, happened between junctions 24 for Bridgwater and 25 for Taunton at around 23:00 GMT on Monday. The force said the girl had died at the…
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn intends to stand at the 2026 Holyrood elections, he has announced. Flynn was re-elected as the MP for Aberdeen South in July’s general election. He said if elected to the Scottish Parliament he would aim to hold his Westminster seat until the next general election, due in 2029, but would…
Roedd y streic yn adlewyrchu beth oedd yn digwydd ar lawr gwlad, mewn cyfnod lle gwelwyd newidiadau mawr o ran yr economi ond mewn cymdeithas hefyd. Roedd gwleidyddiaeth y cyfnod yn adlewyrchu’r newid yna. Dywed y sylwebydd gwleidyddol yr Athro Richard Wyn Jones fod y streic wedi llwyddo i adeiladu pontydd yn y byd gwleidyddol….
A massive crowd gather outside Hindu Sabha Mandir in solidarity with the temple and the Hindu community after the Khalistani attack (ANI file photo) NEW DELHI: Canada’s Brampton Triveni Mandir and Community Centre has called off a life certificate event that was planned for November 17, citing concerns about potential violent protests.The event, a consular…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his military’s ongoing incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is now holding down 50,000 Russian troops. In his daily address to the nation, Zelensky said the operation was reducing Moscow’s ability to attack inside Ukraine itself. The president has long cited this as the goal of the offensive, despite scepticism…
LONDON: An opponent of vaccines who wrote social media posts urging violence against scientists, politicians and public health officials during the Covid-19 pandemic was sentenced Monday to five years in prison after being convicted of encouraging terrorism.A British judge said 55-year-old Patrick Ruane had a “compulsive and obsessive” opposition to vaccines and spewed vitriol on…
AFP Ghana is due to get a new president after December’s election. The current vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia, and a former head of state, John Mahama, are the two leading candidates in contention to win the poll. Nana Akufo-Addo, first elected in 2016, is coming to the end of his second and final four-year term. When…
Getty Images Justice Chandrachud retired as India’s 50th chief justice on Sunday How will history judge my tenure? That’s a question Dhananjay Yashwant Chandrachud, who retired as India’s 50th chief justice on Sunday, asked just weeks before he finished his term. Justice Chandrachud said his mind was “heavily preoccupied with fears and anxieties about the…
