Man in his 20s, first such migrant fatality of 2025, suffered cardiac arrest reportedly as result of being crushed A young Syrian man died while trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said. It is the first reported death at sea of a migrant seeking to travel to Britain from France so far…

Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles.

Neighborhoods now under evacuation orders include Encino and tony Brentwood in west Los Angeles California wildfires – live Evacuations have been ordered for areas of Los Angeles east of the uncontained Palisades fire – as the Santa Ana winds that initially fueled the four-day inferno are expected to moderately pick up. The Los Angeles fire…

Survivor of acid attack and advocate for people with burn injuries posts update ‘after years battling with eye health’ The TV presenter Katie Piper has revealed she is trying out an “artificial eye” more than 16 years after an acid attack left her partly blind and with life-changing burns. The Loose Women panellist, 41, who…

Western ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is partly to blame for dwindling supplies of peyote, which produces mescaline Aldous Huxley wrote about the spiritual visions he had while taking the drug mescaline in The Doors of Perception, while Hunter S Thompson wrote of driving at 100mph while under the influence of it in Fear and Loathing in Las…

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the soldiers were captured in the western Kursk region, where Ukraine has been fighting to hold on to territory it seized last summer.

President Zelensky says the two men are receiving “necessary medical assistance”.