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Most believe they will struggle to get an appointment, with over a quarter choosing to manage ailment themselves Almost half the public delay or avoid contacting their GP surgery when they are ill, mainly because they think they will struggle to get an appointment. Overall 48% of people across the UK did not bother to ask their family doctor for help – either initially or at all – when they got s…

US president signaled a ‘long speech’, expected to start at 9pm ET, which will double as pitch to voters ahead of midterms later this year State of the Union speech: when is it and how can you watch? Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Senator Amy Klobuchar , of Minnesota, criticized fellow Democrats who are planning to boycott Donald Trump ’s State of th…

Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with California The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus. The lawsuit claims UCLA violated…

Firefighters search for 39 people missing in debris after river burst and houses were swept away Three firefighters pulled a man’s body from the mud amid the rubble of houses swept away in a landslide in south-eastern Brazil, where 30 people died and 39 were still missing on Tuesday after torrential rains. A river burst its banks and streets became raging currents of brown water in the state of M…

Government ignores pleas for a grace period before new rules come into force on Wednesday British citizens with a second nationality risk being blocked from entering the UK from Wednesday, the Home Office has confirmed. The government has decided to ignore pleas from families, the3million campaign group, the Liberal Democrats and the former Conservative cabinet minister David Davis for a grace pe…

Zohran Mamdani calls for ‘respect’ of New York police as hundreds of thousands in US still face power outages New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, called for “respect” of local police officers in the wake of Monday’s blizzard after a viral video showed some getting pelted by snowballs in Washington Square Park while responding to a large snowball fight. In the video, a crowd of people boo and j…

Republican Tony Gonzales allegedly pressured Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, who died by suicide, into sexual relationship US congressman Tony Gonzales refused growing calls to resign from his fellow Republicans on Tuesday amid a furore over allegations that he had an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide. Gonzales has been accused of sending sexually explicit text messages in which he appear…

Should legislation pass House of Lords, the matter will require another vote after May’s Welsh elections Wales’s Senedd has voted in favour of implementing Westminster’s assisted dying bill, overcoming a constitutionally awkward situation that could have forced terminally ill people who wish to end their lives to travel to England or seek private provision. In a debate stretching into Tuesday nig…

Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Citizen scientists have discovered what they believe is one of the largest coral colonies ever documented on the Great Barrier Reef. The coral spans approximately 111 metres in maximum length and covers an estimated area of 3,973 sq m – about half the si…

Police investigation under way after prime minister was moved from official residence for three hours on Tuesday night Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese was evacuated from his official Canberra residence on Tuesday night as police responded to a bomb threat, in circumstances a senior minister called…

Human remains suspected of being those of Baghsarian’s were found on Tuesday morning near a golf club in Pitt Town, on Sydney’s northwest fringe Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Two men have been arrested “in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian”, police have said. NSW polic…

Sammy Azdoufal alerted New York-based outlet the Verge after he took control of DJI Romo devices around the world A Spanish software engineer reportedly contacted a New York -based tech outlet recently to reveal he had remotely taken control of about 7,000 vacuums worldwide , in the process shedding light on a broad vulnerability with smart products, according to a cybersecurity expert. The Verge…

Former Labour grandee’s arrest over his links to Epstein came after Met police informed he was preparing to fly to British Virgin Islands Peter Mandelson condemned the police for his arrest on Monday and claimed he was only taken into custody because detectives had wrongly believed he was about to flee the country. In a remarkable rebuke to the Metropolitan police, lawyers for the former peer cha…

The Paris-born artist reinvented the synthesizer through meditative and feedback-drenched sonic explorations The French composer and musique concrète pioneer Éliane Radigue has died at the age of 94. “It is with immense sadness that we learn of the passing of Éliane Radigue at the age of 94,” the Paris-based experimental music center INA GRM posted on Instagram . “A major figure in musical creati…

PM back at The Lodge after evacuation for security check; report says 40% of universities have spent past five years in deficit. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s universities are operating on increasingly thin margins, a new report from Universities Australia reveals. The report, titled Critical challenges in Australia’s university secto…