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In 2024, a year after Hamas’ October 7 attack inside Israel, Gadot gave an impassioned speech at the Anti-Defamation League’s ...

There’s only one hair tool brand that’s always high on people’s wishlists: Dyson. From its futuristic supersonic hair dryer ...

Fewer children in London have secured a place at their first choice of primary school despite an overall drop in demand for ...

I hold big tech's greed and exploitation of people accountable for the surge in the former – and clampdown on the latter, writes WeAre8 founder Zoe Kalar. We are not really living under the laws of ...

More than 12,500 people diagnosed each year with a primary brain tumour – including 500 children and young people ...

Small changes to a person’s everyday routine could lead to a longer life — even without a ton of exercise. Getting more sleep ...

The ruling means transgender women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if ‘proportionate’.

Trans women are not legally women under the Equality Act, the Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark judgment. Campaign group ...

The cutting down of the tree has been compared to that of the landmark Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall in ...

Sir Ed Davey has written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, urging the Government to take steps in retaliation for Wera Hobhouse’s deportation.

A drugs courier who tried to smuggle cocaine worth £5.6 million into the UK hidden in two large suitcases containing ...