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North Carolina teenager dies after rare amoeba infection
North Carolina health officials confirmed that 18-year-old Moises Ponce Mendoza died after contracting Naegleria fowleri, a rare brain-eating amoeba found in warm freshwater. He was named by his mother in an online fundraiser after the state health department had initially described the patient only as “critically ill,” and officials say they are investigating the source…
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Finance worker who stole £91,000 from breast cancer charity to spend on his wedding and honeymoon is jailed
A former finance worker at Breast Cancer Now has been jailed for 30 months after stealing more than £91,000 from the charity to pay for his wedding and honeymoon in Qatar. Tameem Choudhury, 29, from Stoke Newington, abused his position to divert funds intended for The Royal Marsden hospital into his own bank account, betraying…
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CAMHS whistleblower hailed a hero by young man who was inexplicably fed mix of antipsychotic drugs and sedatives – leading to him growing breasts – returns to Kerry and makes the HSE, who blacklisted her, this astonishing offer
Dr Maya Sharma, the consultant who exposed dangerous prescribing practices at Kerry’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), has said she would be willing to return to her former HSE role to help cut waiting lists, despite the health service having previously blacklisted her after she made a protected disclosure in 2020. She lost…
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Dolly Parton Set for First-Ever U.K. No. 1 Single Following Posthumous Streaming Spike
Dolly Parton has secured her first-ever No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, with her 1980 hit “9 to 5” surging in the wake of her death. The song, written for the film of the same name, had already climbed to a new peak of No. 12 the week before overtaking the rest of…
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Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf
Microsoft has flagged two fresh Windows problems on its release health dashboard, published on 28 August: a bug causing Microsoft Defender Antivirus to falsely claim it is disabled, and reports that the 27 August Windows 11 update is disrupting custom mouse cursor settings. Both issues add to a run of update-related annoyances for Windows users,…
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Six Ed Sheeran crew workers rushed to hospital after being hit by a piece of stage equipment at Detroit show
Six crew members working on Ed Sheeran’s tour were taken to hospital after being struck by a piece of stage equipment while dismantling the set following his concert at Detroit’s Ford Field. The incident, described in fire department dispatch audio as a “forklift injury accident”, occurred late on Saturday 29 August as workers were reportedly…
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Labour under fire over North Sea slump as Modi presses Putin on Ukraine
UK oil and gas investment has collapsed amid criticism of government policy, while homes near top schools command steep premiums; Amazon faces an FTC price-fixing suit and a Times Square shooting leaves two dead; entertainment and sport round out the bulletin.
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Trump ballroom cleared, Vance clashes with El-Sayed, Richie hospitalised, Sony discs row erupts
The Supreme Court has let Trump’s White House ballroom proceed as Vance sparred with a Michigan Senate rival, Lionel Richie was taken into intensive care, and Sony faced developer fury over ending PlayStation discs.
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Liam was aged just 20 when he died of a cancer linked to asbestos. Is he one of a growing number of former pupils and teachers exposed to it at crumbling schools?
Nicola Anderson’s son Liam died from mesothelioma, an incurable cancer caused by asbestos exposure, aged just 20 – one of the youngest recorded cases. Specialists in the field say they are increasingly treating patients in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s rather than the traditional 70s and 80s, and many believe school exposure is the…