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Israeli air strikes overnight and into Thursday have killed at least 16 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials say. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital received 10 bodies, including the remains of a woman and three children, after the strikes. An Associated Press reporter at the hospital counted the bodies. A man held the body of a child wrapped in a white shroud as a woman next to him wept, […]

The NHS spending watchdog has recommended that a drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease should not be rolled out on the health service, despite the UK medicines regulator saying it is safe and effective for use. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said the benefits of lecanemab are “just too small to justify the significant cost to the NHS”. A charity said it is […]

The body of technology tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, as his 18-year-old daughter reportedly remains missing. The Italian Coastguard confirmed to the PA news agency that the sixth and final person yet to be found was a woman. Mr Lynch, his daughter, Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo; and […]

The proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades has fallen from last year but is higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic, national figures show. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their GCSE exam results on Thursday in a year when grades were due to be restored to 2019 levels in all three nations. More than a fifth (21.8%) of UK GCSE entries were awarded […]

The gender pay gap might even extend to the bank of Mum and Dad, a new survey has suggested, after it found sons receive more help from their families than daughters when buying their first home. Nearly two-thirds of people who purchased their first home in the past five years had financial help from family, rising to more than three-quarters of homeowners under the age of 30, according to new […]

The UK is falling behind other high-income countries due to long waits for hospital care, a new report suggests. The Health Foundation said that the UK is among the “poorest performing countries” when it comes to hospital-based care. A decade ago, the UK was one of the best nations for people seeing hospital specialists in less than four weeks. But it “slipped from being one of the better-performing nations in […]

The search will resume for the remaining person missing after a luxury yacht sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily following the discovery of five bodies inside the wreck. Six people, including technology tycoon Mike Lynch, were unaccounted for after the vessel – named Bayesian – sank at around 5am on Monday. Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, confirmed that of the five bodies found […]

Tim Walz accepted the nomination for vice president in a Democratic National Convention speech that blended optimism with fierce critiques of Republican rival Donald Trump. The Minnesota Governor, little known before his selection by Vice President Kamala Harris, thanked the packed arena in Chicago. “We’re all here tonight for one beautiful, simple, reason: We love this country,” Mr Walz said. “Thank you for bringing the joy to this fight.” Mr […]

Four bodies have been found inside the wreck of a luxury yacht that sank in a storm off the coast of Sicily. Three body bags were seen being taken to the port of Porticello on Wednesday afternoon following the sinking of the yacht at around 5am on Monday. The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina confirmed two bodies had initially been found, followed by two more later in […]