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Men buying illegal erectile dysfunction pills are risking their health, says watchdog

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Men who buy illegally-traded erectile dysfunction (ED) pills online have been warned they are gambling with their health – after authorities confiscated more than four million doses last year. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said criminals were exploiting “stigma and embarrassment” and many pills had no active ingredient, the wrong dose, or […]

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Bank boss pay surges after bumper profits at Lloyds, Barclays and NatWest

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The UK’s biggest banks have had a strong annual earnings season. Updates from Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest have shown strong profit growth, with their respective UK earnings being boosted by the slower-than-hoped-for pace of interest rate cuts introduced by the Bank of England last year. Cost-cutting has played a role too, with lenders eyeing up

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An ‘Arctic air mass’ is bringing snow to the UK – this is what the Met Office is saying

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The Met Office has issued further snow and ice warnings for large parts of the UK this weekend. The snow and ice alerts are in force for parts of northern England and Scotland, while most of the rest of England, as well as Wales, are under a separate ice warning. The warnings come into force

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Bangladesh’s Nationalist Party claims victory in historic election

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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has claimed victory in the country’s first election since the Gen Z-driven uprising of 2024. The BNP’s media unit said in a social media post that it had secured enough seats in parliament to govern on its own. Final results have not yet been confirmed by the Election Commission, although

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Epstein asked staff to install hidden video cameras at his Florida home, email exchange shows

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Sky News has found an email exchange from 2014 showing that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein asked a member of staff to install hidden video cameras at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. The aide told Epstein that he planned to hide them in tissue boxes at the house. The emails were among millions of

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FBI releases new details about suspect in Nancy Guthrie disappearance – and increases reward for information

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Authorities have released new details about a potential suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie – the mother of US TV host Savannah Guthrie – and have said they are doubling the reward for information. The FBI also shared new identifying details about a possible suspect seen in images and video the bureau previously released

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It looks like public opinion will force Big Tech to make social media safer for children

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More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds. My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. They didn’t have their own devices – Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube were beyond their imagination. TikTok hadn’t even been invented. Yet now

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Trump ‘guts climate laws’ by abandoning acceptance that greenhouse gases endanger health

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Donald Trump has just gone for the jugular of climate legislation. The US president has scrapped a scientific finding by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health – the so-called “endangerment finding”. If you want to gut federal climate action in the US, this is the big one to

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s comments go beyond reputational damage for Man Utd

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It took 23 hours but Manchester United did distance themselves from Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s rhetoric on immigration. Without naming the part-owner, a statement insisting they “remain deeply committed” to “equality, diversity and inclusion” was effectively a public rebuke. Remember, Sir Jim only owns just under 30% of the club, despite the investment gaining control of

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Police name Leicester man last seen in 2024, as digging begins at property in the city

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Police investigating the disappearance of a man from Leicester last seen more than a year ago, have started digging at a property in the city. Detectives have arrested 11 people on suspicion of murder. In a statement on Thursday, they named the missing man as 60-year-old Gary Piatek, who has been missing since April 2024.

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