January 2026

Paramount Skydance steps up hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery with law suit

Entertainment /

A hostile takeover bid for media giant Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has ratcheted up with entertainment conglomerate Paramount taking legal action to force the release of financial data. Paramount Skydance, which owns film production company Paramount Pictures and TV network CBS, has filed a law suit seeking to compel WBD to disclose to shareholders how […]

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Is Charles Bronson on the verge of freedom? Why Britain’s most notorious prisoner faces Catch-22

Breaking News /

Is Britain’s most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson on the verge of freedom? Before a new parole review last month he fired his lawyer and refused to take any part in the process, angry that his request for a public hearing had been rejected. In a letter to Sky News, the man who has spent half

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Nurses in transgender row suffered harassment from NHS trust, tribunal rules

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An employment tribunal has delivered its judgment in the case of a group of nurses who complained about a transgender colleague’s use of a female changing room. It found that the nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital suffered harassment from their NHS trust, with the “effect of violating the dignity of the claimants and creating a

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HPMC gel restores sight to people with untreatable condition, scientists say

Technology /

A commonly used gel has restored sight to people suffering from a rare and untreatable condition that causes blindness, scientists have said. HPMC – hydroxypropyl methylcellulose – a low-cost gel used in most eye surgeries – restored vision for seven out of eight patients with hypotony, researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London found. Hypotony,

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Meet the Kennewick Man: Face of ‘most important’ ancient American revealed after 8,500 years

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The living face of one of the most important human skeletons ever found in America can be seen for the first time in more than 8,000 years. The Kennewick Man – named for the city in Washington State where his remains were discovered – was roughly 40 years old when he died in the early

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