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With GLP-1s to treat the condition not specifically approved by the TGA, patients are being prescribed them off-label Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Women living with a chronic hormonal condition should have access to taxpayer-funded weight loss medications, advocates say. The Polyendrocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome Association of Australia (POSAA) is urging for GL…

Unions tell government to fix ‘overbearing mess’ of inspection regime and its impact on staff wellbeing – or risk industrial action Tensions between England’s headteachers and Ofsted are developing into a crisis after school leadership unions said they had no confidence in the watchdog and would hold strike ballots unless “significant wellbeing issues” caused by Ofsted’s inspections regime were f…

Motorist, reportedly trying to beat a traffic light, barrels through busy intersection and slams into pedestrians At least one person was killed and nine injured in New York City ’s eastern Bronx when a motorist barreled through a busy intersection, slammed into pedestrians and triggered a chain-reaction crash involving several vehicles, according to authorities and media reports. The horrifying …

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers A controversial research trial that will withhold hepatitis B vaccines from some African newborns was given approval to move forward this week. It is a central part of the vaccine vision for Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a longt…

Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, 30 and 33, and friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were killed on a surfing trip in 2024 Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A Mexican judge has convicted three men of the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their American friend in a case that sparked international outrage. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 an…

Alabama, Florida and Mississippi declare emergencies, as residents prepare for ‘long-duration power outages’ Isaias strengthened into a category 3 hurricane on Friday as it barreled toward the US Gulf coast, where states of emergency have been declared in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. The hurricane, the first in the Atlantic in what has turned into a very late 2026 season, is expected to caus…

Locals also express fear after man shot in the neck while his child was in the back of his car Residents of Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood were furious at federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday but also scared after an officer shot their neighbor who had his child in the back of his car. Orlando Perez had parked his car on the corner of 225th St and Marble Hill Avenue o…

Prospect of contentious Orange Order march down Garvaghy Road has led to a two-week standoff in Portadown The Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Bryant, has announced he will ban the contentious Drumcree parade . Bryant said it had not been possible to find accommodation between the Orange Order and the nationalist residents of the Garvaghy Road in Portadown. The standoff between the two sides has…

Hammam al-Hammami is believed to have been targeting the passenger terminal at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv The co-pilot who tried to seize control of a passenger jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week was planning to launch a suicide attack targeting the passenger terminal at Israel’s international airport, prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates said on Friday. Hammam al-Hammami attack…

Hazardous waves are possible in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has struck Panama and triggered tsunami warnings along the west coast of Central and South America, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The quake hit along the southern coast of Panama, the USGS said, and was felt strongly ​in the ⁠Panamanian capita…

Zacharia will replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the role at the end of August after giving birth to her second child Donald Trump has chosen conservative commentator Katie Zacharia to be the next White House press secretary, according to a White House official. Zacharia will replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the role at the end of August after the birth to her second child. Continue reading...

Tories said to be ready to fight in Clacton, with standards investigation rumoured to be nearing its end Nigel Farage’s rivals are gearing up for a byelection in the months ahead, amid speculation that the standards inquiry into his £5m gift is nearing a conclusion. Conservative sources said the party was ready to fight in Farage’s Clacton seat, although senior figures in the shadow cabinet are d…

Men found inside RAF Molesworth, used by US and Nato for intelligence, freed on strict conditions as police continue investigation Two Latvian men have been released on bail after being arrested at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire used by the US military and Nato. The two men, aged 32 and 26, were arrested at 2am on Thursday after they were discovered inside RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, which i…

Party now polling 15 points above Greens, who had been ahead of Labour before Starmer resigned as PM Labour is starting to win back voters on the left who became disillusioned under Keir Starmer’s leadership, the party’s deputy leader has claimed after it saw off Zack Polanski and the Greens to win the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali took 45% of a relatively low turnou…

Brussels says Beijing’s shipments could fall by more than half over four years, cutting millions of vehicles amid fears for European jobs The EU said it has reached a landmark deal with China to “halve” its sales of hybrid cars in the bloc amid fears surging sales could kill off parts of the European car industry. Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said the deal was the first of its kind and the r…