Plant-based diet cuts sleep apnoea risk by a fifth, research shows ( www.theguardian.com )
Those eating the most vegetables, fruits and whole grains were 19% less likely to have condition...
Monolith review – impressive first contact sci-fi seeks the truth out there ( www.theguardian.com )
Matt Vesely’s debut references 2001: A Space Odyssey and Arrival, but ably stakes its own territory as a compelling and fastidious piece of work
UK ministers in court again over net zero plans | Friends of the Earth dismisses government’s revised climate action plan as a ‘pipe dream’ ( www.theguardian.com )
New study reveals diet link to PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in human body ( www.theguardian.com )
US research shows foods such as butter and processed meat likely to increase levels of toxic PFAS in blood over time...
EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding ( www.theguardian.com )
Video platform under scrutiny over potential breach of Digital Services Act in areas such as age verification...
‘Staff started breaking down’: top US care non-profit accused of reducing workers to tears ( www.theguardian.com )
Caring Across Generations, run by key US labor activist, accused of poor management and of retaliation against union organizers...
‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts ( www.theguardian.com )
There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?...
Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m ( www.theguardian.com )
Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’...
Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela ( www.theguardian.com )
Fuel continues to leak from overturned and abandoned barge as stain spreads into the Caribbean Sea...
Oregon resident caught the bubonic plague from their cat, local officials say ( www.theguardian.com )
Officials say disease, which killed millions in medieval Europe, was identified and treated early, ‘posing little risk to the community’...
Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’ ( www.theguardian.com )
A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say....
Musk ordered to testify again in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover ( www.theguardian.com )
US regulator sued in October to compel Musk to testify as part of an investigation into his $44bn purchase of what is now known as X...
Viagra may help to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
Research by UCL, which examined medical records of 260,000 men with erectile dysfunction, has provided ‘food for thought’...
‘Life-saving’: EPA tightens US pollution controls on soot ( www.theguardian.com )
Environmental Protection Agency sets lower limits on fine particle pollution, estimated to cause 85,000 to 225,000 deaths annually...
Brazil starts mass vaccination amid upsurge in dengue fever ( www.theguardian.com )
Emergency measures taken as 364,855 cases of mosquito-borne infection reported this year, a fourfold increase on year before...
Wettest storm in southern California history leaves at least seven dead and causes hundreds of mudslides ( www.theguardian.com )
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome may have higher suicide risk, study says ( www.theguardian.com )
Researchers find those with PCOS had 8.47-fold higher risk than similar women without the condition...
Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria ( www.theguardian.com )
Iraqi, 24, rescued with her children from al-Hawl camp after being abducted then raped and forced into marriage...
Isolated Indigenous people as happy as wealthy western peers – study ( www.theguardian.com )
Zelenskiy set to replace senior officials amid Ukraine leadership ‘reset’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Comments come as speculation continues president is preparing to fire commander of armed forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi...
Nayib Bukele re-elected as El Salvador president in landslide win ( www.theguardian.com )
Voters reward Bukele for gang crackdown that has transformed security in central American country...
Overnight Israeli airstrikes kill scores in Gaza as fears grow of push into Rafah ( www.theguardian.com )
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed scores of people overnight, as fears grow of the military campaign intensifying in the southern city of Rafah, a tiny pocket of the territory where more than a million people are sheltering....
Walnut, a white-naped crane with a Smithsonian zookeeper as a mate, dies at age 42 ( www.theguardian.com )
Long-lived member of the vulnerable species was coaxed into reproducing by her zookeeper and eventually hatched eight chicks...
Aid to Gaza and beyond at risk of collapse due to funding cuts, says UNRWA ( www.theguardian.com )
Vital supplies of fuel and bread flour for Gaza risk running out, while schools, clinics and even rubbish collections in the West Bank and three countries across the Middle East could cease operating by the end of the month if funding cuts for UNRWA are not restored, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees has warned....
Gunmen take seven staff hostage at Procter & Gamble factory in Turkey ( www.theguardian.com )
Two gunmen have taken seven people hostage at a factory in Turkey owned by the US company Procter & Gamble, according to media reports, in an apparent protest over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza....
