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‘I want to play for mum’ – Arsenal’s Cooney-Cross
Arsenal midfielder Kyra Cooney-Cross will play at the Emirates Stadium for the first time since her mother, Jess, died of cancer two months ago, when the club face Crystal Palace on Sunday. The Australia international says the occasion will bring “mixed emotions” but that she wants to honour her mother’s memory and thank supporters, describing…
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Family of fitness fanatic, 34, left paralysed after doctors dismissed his deadly brain condition for a virus sue NHS
The family of a 34-year-old fitness enthusiast left with locked-in syndrome are suing the NHS after doctors at Warrington Hospital dismissed his life-threatening brain condition as a virus. Oli Coppock, from Warrington, Cheshire, has spent over two years unable to speak, eat or move, communicating only through eye movements, after staff failed to order a…
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Popular cruise line shuts down fan-favorite amenity during health scare
Norwegian Cruise Line has closed the hot tubs and heated whirlpools on board its ship Norwegian Prima as a precaution after three former passengers were diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, a form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria. The cases involved travellers who sailed on the 3,200-passenger vessel in May and July 2026; the source of…
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Bioweapon threat exposed as Anthropic sounds alarm on foreign actors plotting virus experiments
Anthropic has published a threat report revealing that researchers outside the United States used its Claude AI models to plan experiments involving highly pathogenic bird flu, chikungunya and other biological agents with potential weapons applications. The report matters because it moves the risk of AI-assisted bioweapons research from theoretical debate into documented reality, showing that…
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Cancer, Covid, and ‘Sexually Explicit Videos’: Dave Mustaine Reflects on Megadeth’s Most Turbulent Album
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s new memoir, In My Darkest Hour, details how his 2019 cancer diagnosis coincided with a string of setbacks during the making of the band’s 16th album, The Sick, the Dying … and the Dead!. In an excerpt shared with additional commentary from drummer Dirk Verbeuren, Mustaine describes how the record was…
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The hospitality industry fears a tourist tax will drive visitors away – the evidence disagrees
UK hospitality trade bodies have strongly opposed government plans to allow English councils to introduce overnight tourist taxes, warning of significant damage to an industry already under pressure from higher costs and the lingering effects of Brexit and the pandemic. UKHospitality estimates a 5% levy on overnight stays in England could result in 12 million…
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Five Mexican men deny running ‘Breaking Bad-style’ meth lab in Warwickshire countryside – insisting they were working as chef and builders
Five Mexican men have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to produce methamphetamine at a farm in Warwickshire, telling Warwickshire Crown Court they had been legitimately working there as a chef and builders rather than running a drugs operation. The case follows a raid last month by the National Crime Agency and Warwickshire Police, who found…
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Dad drugged and raped female employee on his yacht docked in Nantucket after his wife left to take son, 2, to preschool, police say
A 54-year-old Florida father, Christian Bradley Williams, has been charged with rape, indecent assault and battery after allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old female employee aboard his family’s yacht in Nantucket Harbor. The alleged attack took place on 9 August, hours after his wife left the boat to take their two-year-old son to start preschool, leaving Williams…
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Doncaster boss McCann reveals skin cancer treatment
Doncaster Rovers manager Grant McCann has revealed he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, in December last year. The 46-year-old Northern Irishman disclosed the diagnosis when asked about the pressures of football management, saying it put the demands of his job into perspective, and confirmed he is now well after…
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Dame Esther Rantzen says it’s too late for her to ‘buzz off’ to Dignitas as she is ‘too physically fragile to make the journey’ amid cancer battle
Dame Esther Rantzen has revealed that it is now too late for her to travel to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, as she renewed her plea for MPs to back assisted dying legislation ahead of a Commons vote. The 86-year-old Childline founder, who is terminally ill with cancer, first disclosed in December 2023 that she…