Sean Seddon, Wahiba Ahmed and Anna Foster Gaza health crisis will last ‘for generations’, says WHO chief Gaza is experiencing a health “catastrophe” that will last for “generations to come”, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a massive increase in…
Andy GiddingsShropshire and Victoria ScheerLeeds Getty Images The “rapid review” is now focusing on 12 English NHS trusts, with a report due by December Two NHS trusts have been removed from a review of maternity failings across England. Trusts in Shropshire and Leeds have been dropped from the government’s rapid reviews of “failures in the…
Myron MedcalfOct 22, 2025, 02:38 AM ET Close Myron Medcalf covers college basketball for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2011. With two former G League players recently committing to play for Division I schools, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said he doesn’t “respect” the NCAA powerbrokers who’ve allowed those moves to happen. “I am going…
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered web browser to challenge competitors like Google, which operates Chrome, the most popular browser in the world. ChatGPT Atlas does away with the address bar that is a key feature in search, with boss Sam Altman saying it was “built around ChatGPT” as the company made the new…
Taiwan has for the first time formally outlined the circumstances under which its troops can shoot down incoming drones. The new procedures, disclosed in the recently released National Defence Report 2025, set out a four-step standard operating procedure – identification and monitoring, alert and notification, safety confirmation and defensive firing. The report said the guidelines…
Back in March, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy organization disbanded its energy policy team, cutting dozens of staffers. Now some of them have founded a new organization, the nonprofit Clean Economy Project. Similar to Breakthrough Energy, the organization is betting that clean energy can beat fossil fuels on cost, if not today, then in the near…
The haze that hangs over our cities is a symbol of administrative inertia, environmental decay Karachi and Lahore have both had the dubious distinction of ranking among the world’s most polluted cities once again. Lahore, with an Air Quality Index of 234, stood second only to New Delhi, while Karachi’s 182 placed it firmly in…
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Getty Images Side effects of different antidepressants have been ranked for the first time, revealing huge differences between drugs. Academics looked at the impact medications had on patients in the first eight weeks after starting treatment, with some causing patients to gain up to 2kg in weight or vary heart…
Seth WalderOct 21, 2025, 06:25 AM ET Close Seth Walder is an analytics writer at ESPN, specializing in quantitative analysis. He is also a regular on “ESPN Bet Live” and helps cover sports betting. Seth has been at ESPN since 2017. He previously worked at the New York Daily News covering the Jets and Giants….
