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Beijing has recorded its hottest June day in more than 60 years with the mercury touching 41.1C (105.9F), Chinese weather authorities say.The city is experiencing a prolonged heatwave with extreme temperatures to persist until the end of June.On Thursday, officials said it was the hottest June day s...
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Regularly finding time for a little snooze is good for our brain and helps keep it bigger for longer, say University College London researchers.The team showed nappers' brains were 15 cubic centimetres (0.9 cubic inches) larger - equivalent to delaying ageing by between three and six years.Howev...
In 2019, Pann Pann started her first job - maintaining medical records - at a government-run hospital in Myanmar's southern Bago city. She aspired to be the hospital's chief records officer.But four years on, the 25-year-old is waiting tables in Bangkok, her dreams pushed to the back burner ...
An Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.Bella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week. But when mourners attending her wake heard her knocking on her coffin, she was immediat...
Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates met China's President Xi Jinping on Friday as tensions remain high between Washington and Beijing.Mr Xi told Mr Gates that he was "the first American friend" he had met in Beijing this year, according to Chinese state media.Mr Gates is the latest h...
Pope Francis has left hospital in Rome nine days after a hernia operation.It was the pontiff's second stint hospital this year after treatment for a chest infection in March.The 86-year-old appeared upbeat as he left the Gemelli Hospital on Friday morning. Asked by well-wishers outside how he wa...
Japan has passed laws that redefine rape and raise the age of consent in a landmark overhaul of sex crime laws.The definition of rape was broadened to "non-consensual sexual intercourse" from "forcible sexual intercourse", aligning Japanese law's definition with other countri...
The coastal regions of India and Pakistan are on high alert, more than 170,000 people in both the countries have been evacuated from the path of a fierce cyclone before its expected landfall on Thursday.Forecasters have warned that Cyclone Biparjoy - which means "disaster" in Bengali - cou...
Three people have been killed - and another three injured - in connected "horrific and tragic" attacks in Nottingham.Two people, believed to have been stabbed, were found dead by police in Ilkeston Road just after 04:00 BST.Officers were then called to Milton Street where a van had attempt...
Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke.She was placed in a coffin and taken to a funeral parlour, where relatives held a vigil before her...
William Barr, the former US attorney general who served under Donald Trump, has said the ex-president is "toast" if allegations he mishandled classified documents are proven to be true.Mr Barr criticised his former boss and said he had no right to keep the files allegedly found at his home...
An 11-year-old girl from a British family who was shot dead while playing on a swing in her garden in France has been named as Solaine Thornton.The family were having a barbecue on Saturday evening when the shooting happened in the village of Saint-Herbot, north of Quimper in Brittany.Her parents, A...
The size of the flooded area in the Kherson region as a result of the Kakhovka dam breach has almost halved, Ukraine says - but experts and officials fear infectious diseases may spread in polluted waters.Water levels have dropped by 27cm (10in), the regional administration's head, Alexander Pro...
The decade-long study involved 113,000 participants over the age of 20 from every state in IndiaA new study published in Lancet estimates that 101 million people in India - 11.4% of the country's population - are living with diabetes.A survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 1...
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Five days after a deadly three-train crash killed 288 people in India, more than 80 bodies remain unclaimed.The crash on Friday evening in the state of Odisha involved two passenger trains and a stationary goods train.More than 1,000 injured were taken to hospitals for treatment. Many families say t...
Apple has unveiled a much-anticipated augmented reality headset, Apple Vision Pro, in its first major hardware launch for almost a decade.Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the new headset "seamlessly blends the real world and the virtual world".The tech firm also announced its latest iPh...
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has officially filed paperwork to join an increasingly crowded field of Republicans running for president.Mr Pence, 63, is set to formally launch his campaign with a video, speech and townhall event in the early voting state of Iowa on Wednesday.The move pits him ...
The more than 180-year-long history of horse racing in Singapore is set to draw to a close.It has been announced that the small Southeast Asian nation's only racecourse - Singapore Turf Club - will hold its final meeting next year.The country's government will take back the 120-hectare site,...
Russia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a major Ukrainian attack in Donetsk, in the latest sign that a wider counter-offensive may have begun.Video of what Russia says is the battle shows military vehicles under heavy fire in fields. Russia claims it killed 300 troops and destroyed 16 tan...
A devastating crash involving three trains in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has killed 275 people and more than 1,000 injured, many of them seriously.The cause of the crash, which is being described as India's worst this century, is not yet clear.Ahead of a report into the crash, Railway Mi...
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