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Twenty-three more women contact Met police over serial rapist Zhenhao Zou

6h ago

Patient satisfaction with NHS has hit record low of 21%, survey finds

6h ago

AI Risks for Democracy, the Economy, and Civil Rights

Communications of the ACM

12h ago 6m read

Power to the people: the rise of community energy

16h ago 5m read

UK housebuilders ‘very bad’ at building houses, says wildlife charity CEO

19h ago

India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer

Tue

Only 2.5% of private rentals in England affordable on housing benefit, study finds

Tue

‘It’s relentless’: Britons react to April bill rises amid Labour’s benefit cuts

Tue

Trump officials to cut Planned Parenthood family planning funds

Tue

Tenants win £260,000 of rent back in legal fight with London ‘rogue landlord’

Mon

New blood test checks for Alzheimer’s and assesses progression, study says

Mon

Politicians criticise US efforts to make EU firms reverse diversity initiatives

Mon

‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

Mon

Growing and sharing seeds can boost mental health

Mon 3m read

Is it true that … showering every day is bad for your skin?

Mon

‘Boys feel increasingly isolated’: teenagers on Netflix’s Adolescence

Mon

Senior Tories and big landlords discuss ways to thwart renters’ rights bill

Mon

Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate, UK poll finds

Mon

Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions

Mon

Vulnerable patients will lose vital support with Pip cuts | Letters

Sun

Police officers ‘mocked and ostracised’ for paternity leave in England and Wales

Sun

How a ban on food dye in West Virginia has forged an unlikely alliance

Sun

Morning-after pill to be offered without charge at pharmacies in England

Sun

Whitehall has left generation of teenagers with no hope, says Andy Burnham

Sun

Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life | Matt Forde

Sun

Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units

Sun

MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’

Sun

RFK Jr says they are poisoning us, influencers call them unnatural – but what is the truth about seed oils?

Sat

The anti-women ‘fertilization president’ who wants to have it both ways | Arwa Mahdawi

Sat

My child has autism. Trump and RFK Jr linking it to vaccines scares parents like me

Sat

‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug-induced comas

Sat

‘Plot twist - I’m still a fat person!’: meet the people proving you can be fit at any size

Sat

Beauty clinics in UK offering banned treatments derived from human cells

Sat

From 24/7 pain to tolerable symptoms, Botox is helping people living with endometriosis

Fri

New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’

Fri

Esther Rantzen’s life-preserving cancer drugs no longer working, says daughter

Fri

‘What the hell is this stuff?’: French people on the culture shock of flossing

Fri

No 10 happy to dip its toe into culture wars in row with Sentencing Council

Fri

Sentencing Council for England and Wales rejects calls to review ‘two-tier’ justice rules

Fri

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Fri 2m read

How do I navigate the fear and anger of this political moment? | Leading questions

Fri

Government opens first-of-its-kind ‘green’ prison in East Yorkshire

Fri

Decline of cash credited for drop in NHS surgery for children swallowing objects

Fri

University of Sussex taking legal action over £585,000 free speech fine

Thu

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

Thu

Researchers develop AI tool that could speed up coeliac disease diagnosis

Thu

OnlyFans fined £1.05m over inaccurate information on age checks

Thu

Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’

Thu

Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts

Wed

Accusations and resignations mark remarkable 24 hours at charity founded by Prince Harry

Wed

London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate

Wed

‘It became very fraught’: how assisted dying bill has changed on its way back to Commons

Wed

Institutions fear bigger penalties after landmark University of Sussex fine

Wed

Universities Take Strategic Steps in the Face of Uncertain Funding

Communications of the ACM

Wed 8m read

OBR halves 2025 growth forecast to 1% as UK faces ‘more uncertain’ outlook

Wed

More than 3m Britons to lose out from benefits cuts

Wed

People doing intense exercise experience time warp, study finds

Wed

Assisted dying bill is ‘flawed and dangerous’ after changes, says group of Labour MPs

Wed

For the love of: Folklore

Wed 5m read

Housebuilder Vistry pins hopes on £2bn affordable homes injection as profits fall

Wed

Exercise and screen time advice for new mothers angers parenting groups

Wed

Further welfare cuts expected as Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver spring statement – UK politics live

Wed

University of Sussex fined £585,000 for failing to uphold freedom of speech

Wed

‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

Wed

Three-quarters of UK fertility patients using unproven add-on treatments

Wed

Judge accuses RAF pair of ‘wanton vandalism’ for destroying Paddington Bear statue

Tue

Fulfilling the Growing Power Requirements of AI Datacenters

Communications of the ACM

Tue 9m read

Bearing nature’s beauty and fragility – snoozing king of the Arctic wins photo contest

Tue 1m read

Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK

Tue

Domestic abusers driving more victims to suicide, warn police

Mar 25

Our lifesaving device for small babies is stuck in development | Letter

Mar 24

Are whole-grain foods really healthier?

Mar 24

Rewilding the curriculum: natural history GCSE to be introduced in the UK

Mar 24 3m read

The battle for Glasgow’s Wyndford estate – photo essay

Mar 24

Thirty-seven patients die needlessly each day in the NHS. Change is good, but patient safety must come first | Jeremy Hunt

Mar 24

World’s first case of bird flu in sheep detected in England

Mar 24

How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?

Mar 24

Want to develop emotionally? Get to know your inner spider

Mar 24

Motability: is it true that the disability scheme is taking UK taxpayers for a ride?

Mar 24

Prostate cancer surgery breakthrough offers hope for erectile function

Mar 24

Monday briefing: Why has the rightwing press turned on Motability?

Mar 24

Friendships that bridge wealth divides help social mobility, study finds

Mar 24

Brianna Ghey’s mother calls for social media ban for under-16s

Mar 23

Labour plan for £2bn in Whitehall cuts will hit frontline services, union warns

Mar 23

Labour mayoral candidate on race to stop Reform – and ‘Doge Lincolnshire’

Mar 23

Royal Society honours pioneering scientists who were first female members

Mar 23

Type 2 diabetes increases risk of liver and pancreatic cancers, study shows

Mar 22

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

Mar 22

Doctors’ best friends: dogs will help sniff out bacteria for cystic fibrosis sufferers

Mar 22

Ravers, Rastas and rugby league stars: why the story of Black British culture is about more than just London

Mar 22

What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more

Mar 22

A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

Mar 22

Martin Rowson on Labour beating ploughshares into swords – cartoon

Mar 21

Tommy Robinson refused permission to challenge his prison segregation

Mar 21

Ministers urged to act as thousands more hit by UK carer’s allowance debts

Mar 21

Post-Brexit reliance on NHS staff from ‘red list’ countries is unethical, Streeting says

Mar 21

What went right this week: the good news that matters

Mar 21 2m read

Feeling a bit down under: Australia drops out of world’s top 10 happiest countries

Mar 21

‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits

Mar 21

Covid changed our lives – and not for the better | Letters

Mar 20