UKHSA figures show the number of cases has fallen to 23 overall The meningitis B vaccination programme will be expanded to include year 11 pupils at schools affected by the outbreak in Kent, health officials have said. Figures from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) show the number of cases of the illness have fallen. Continue reading...
Critics say £15 toy designed for children aged two and over risks exposing them to ‘a very adult, performative world’ Argos has ignited a debate among parents and child development campaigners after promoting a wooden “influencer kit” aimed at toddlers. Critics have warned that the play set could normalise the precarious world of digital labour and prematurely expose children to the pressures of online visibility. Continue reading...
Poll also finds Australians keener for government to forge closer ties with ‘middle powers’ such as Canada and Japan Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Only one in four Australians approve of the US-Israel war on Iran, and just a third have backed the federal government’s actions in sending a military plane and troops to the region, according to a new poll. The latest Guardian Essential poll found Australians are keener for the government to forge closer ties with so-ca
A study found correlation between the environment and long-term wellness in sample of 1,978 who attended college between 1940-80 Attending a historically Black college or university (HBCU) as a young adult may be linked with better later-life cognitive outcomes for Black Americans, according to a recent study. The authors sampled 1,978 Black American adults who attended college between 1940 and 1980 (35% attended an HBCU), and who attended a high school in a state with an HBCU. The conclusion? T
Some residents moved amid threat of flooding are under public guardianship due to reduced mental capacity. NT public guardian says they ‘would have been very frightened’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Frail aged care residents were forced to shelter in an open-sided basketball court in Katherine, sleeping in makeshift conditions as authorities scrambled to prepare for major river flooding triggered by ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle. Residents from Rocky Ridge and Kathe
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Pulido has been a mainstay of Tejano music —a genre blending traditional regional Mexican elements with country, pop and conjunto influences — for more than three decades. (Image credit: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Images and videos online showed large plume of smoke and flames billowing out from refinery, but no one was injured Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox An oil refinery fire near the Texas coast was put out on Tuesday and a temporary shelter-in-place order was lifted, hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air, officials said. No one was injured in Monday’s explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, about 90 miles
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Nasa reports show repeated warnings of close calls before crash that killed two pilots and injured 41 others Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Pilot safety concerns about New York’s LaGuardia airport were filed to aviation officials months before Sunday’s collision between an airplane and a firetruck left two pilots dead and 41 other people hospitalized. According to the aviation safety reporting system administered by the US space agency Nasa, a pilot
