1+ week, 4+ day ago   (454+ words) More than 800 Indonesian students and teachers have fallen ill in separate incidents of food poisoning linked to President Prabowo Subianto’s free-meals program this week, with dozens hospitalised after they with struck with nausea, vomiting and stomach aches. The president’s flagship…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (660+ words) More than 3,000 people have now died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the country battles its deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. According to Congo’s Ministry of Health 6,186 confirmed cases and 3,007 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak was…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (444+ words) A cancercharity worker who stole nearly £92,000 from his employer to pay for his wedding and honeymoon has been jailed. Tameem Choudhury, 29, exploited his role at Breast Cancer Now to redirect a payment intended for the charity into his own bank…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (286+ words) An employee at Frankfurt Airport has died of malaria, a spokesperson for the facility’s operator Fraport said on Wednesday. A further five employees at the airport also contracted the infectious disease and are receiving medical treatment. The cause of the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (412+ words) The health of Norway's 89-year-old King Harald V, in hospital due to complications from a blood condition, "deteriorated" over the weekend, a statement from the palace said. Europe's oldest reigning monarch is being treated for haemolytic anaemia, a condition caused…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (403+ words) They are meant to protect, but some condoms sold in France may not comply with regulations. France's consumer affairs and fraud watchdog (DGCCRF) and the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) issued a warning on Friday 21 August about several products, some of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (695+ words) The recent heatwave has driven a demand on the NHS services in Wales, according to the latest figures. For the third month in a row, the total numbers waiting for treatment by the NHS in Wales have risen, though two-year-waits…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1144+ words) When in March 2021 Emilia Privitera started coughing relentlessly, she initially worried she might have caught COVID-19 again. Then when the test came in negative, she thought it could be just a seasonal allergy. “But the cough persisted for weeks, and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (161+ words) The Ebola outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is growing "exponentially" with more than 2,500 deaths now recorded, with half in the last 20 days, the United Nations' senior Ebola coordinator said on Friday. The Ebola outbreak is…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (546+ words) Comedian Al Murray has urged people to “pack a parachute for a stranger” and join the stem cell register following the death of his eight-year-old nephew. The 58-year-old English comedian, best known for his Pub Landlord persona, lost his nephew…...