One-year-old twin girls, conjoined at the head, have been successfully separated during a 14 hour operation led by a leading British surgeon. Professor Noor ul Owase Jeelani from Great Ormond Street Hospital used leading mixed reality technology to complete the complex procedure on Minal and Mirha in Turkey. Both are recovering in hospital and are expected to make full recoveries ...
Amazon has told its office workers they may no longer work from home except in extenuating circumstances. It comes as Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business secretary, said flexible working contributes to productivity, employee resilience, and staff retention. Money blog: Is now a good time to buy an iPhone? Workers need to be judged on outcomes and “not a culture of ...
Instagram and Facebook owner Meta is banning RT and other Russian state media networks from its platforms over claims they carried out covert operations to influence social media users. The ban, which was announced on Monday, will block the accounts from Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Threads users over the coming days. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against ...
The UK government has procured 150,000 doses of additional mpox vaccine in preparation for anticipated cases of a new potentially deadlier strain causing a growing outbreak in Africa and isolated cases in Europe and Asia detected in recent weeks. The UK has yet to identify a case of the Clade 1b strain of mpox, and health officials say the risk ...
One of the final messages from the Titan submersible crew said they were “all good here” before it imploded, killing all five on board. British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood died alongside OceanGate Expeditions’ chief executive Stockton Rush and Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The five of them had been communicating with the Polar Prince support ...
A Jordanian-led programme to help fit prosthetic limbs to thousands of victims of the Gaza war has begun. Two mobile clinics entered Gaza on Monday tasked with helping around 14,000 amputees. Using cutting-edge British designed technology, the doctors hope to be able to fit a functioning prosthesis every hour. The estimated cost of each fitting is around £1,000. “Medical estimates ...
The White House has called Elon Musk “irresponsible” after he posted on social media that “no one is even trying” to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. The billionaire posted the comment on his X social media platform, followed by a thinking emoji. But he later deleted it and said it was intended as a joke. His comment followed the ...
A billionaire astronaut and his crew have returned to Earth after taking part in the first private spacewalk. Polaris Dawn, operated by SpaceX on behalf of billionaire Jared Isaacman, splashed down at 8.37am today in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness. Carrying four private citizens, including SpaceX engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, the ...
Two astronauts who are set to be stuck in space for eight months have said the International Space Station is now their “happy place” but admitted to “tough times”. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said in a press conference on Friday that it was hard to watch their Boeing Starliner capsule return to Earth without them last week – but ...
The first privately-funded spacewalk was box office from start to finish. With the air sucked out of the Dragon capsule, and the hatch open to the void of space, we watched as the billionaire bankrolling the Polaris Dawn mission hauled himself outside to reveal planet Earth below. This was never going to be a zero-gravity ballet on the outside of ...