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By SHIVALI BEST, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Published: 07:58 BST, 27 September 2025 | Updated: 07:58 BST, 27 September 2025 If today is your birthday, we have some bad news for you. Your ‘special’ day really isn’t that exceptional. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that today (27 September) is the most common day to be born in the UK. In fact, the four most common birthdays – 27 September, 26 September, 25 September, and 23 September – have all taken place this week. This shows that more babies are conceived in the weeks around Christmas than at any other time of the year.In…
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 00:19 BST, 27 September 2025 | Updated: 00:20 BST, 27 September 2025 Scientists say they are on the brink of creating a breakthrough treatment for multiple sclerosis which could repair nerve damage caused by the condition.MS causes the body to attack myelin, the protective membrane around nerve cells, causing debilitating symptoms such as fatigue, pain, spasms and problems with walking.But medics have found a combination of the diabetes drug metformin and clemastine, an antihistamine, can help repair myelin. Researchers believe repairing the membrane can also prevent further degeneration of damaged nerves.Studies on animals had found…
Covid lockdowns set adolescents back in their schoolwork and led to the worst exam results in math and reading on record.Now, researchers warn they may have also taken a toll on sex education, leaving middle and high schoolers less confident about safe practices and more vulnerable to dangerous diseases.Scientists at Brown University found that seventh graders, who are typically 12- to 13-years-old, who received sexual education in 2023 to 2024 (after pandemic school closures) were more likely to have negative feelings or beliefs around the topic compared to those taught in 2018 to 2019 (before pandemic school closures).Results showed, however,…
Men who use violence are being urged to seek help amid the wave of alcohol consumption and gambling linked to footy finals fever that leaves vulnerable women and children at increased risk.With AFL and NRL premiership deciders being played out over back-to-back long weekends, police, domestic violence services and other first responders are bracing for what is expected to be an influx of calls for help.Victorian police last year saw a nine per cent increase in family violence over the state’s three-day grand final weekend compared to 2023, with a total of 796 incidents.Domestic violence services are also likely to…
By CITY & FINANCE REPORTER Updated: 21:50 BST, 26 September 2025 One of Britain’s biggest windfarms has become the target of US private equity.Danish energy giant Orsted, the world’s largest offshore windfarm developer, is said to be in talks to sell a 50 per cent stake in its Hornsea 3 project to Apollo.Orsted, whose 12 wind farms in Britain generate 7 per cent of the country’s electricity, is attempting to shore up its balance sheet as it struggles in the face of higher costs, light winds and opposition to renewable energy from Donald Trump. Its shares are down 36 per…
Selena Gomez’ Only Murders in the Building co-stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Paul Rudd have arrived to join the guest list at her lavish wedding weekend with music producer Benny Blanco.Gomez, 33, will say ‘I do’ to music producer Benny Bianco, 37, in a ceremony at the romantic Sea Crest Nursery – a 70-acre private plantation in Goleta dotted with palm trees and cycads.The nuptials were preceded by a Friday night rehearsal dinner at a country mansion in Goleta’s tony Hope Ranch neighborhood – a vast 1,863-acre estate in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains.The feast saw guests –…
Towering 8,849 metres (29,030 feet) above sea level, the lofty peak of Mount Everest is the ultimate challenge for any mountaineer.Now, a Polish daredevil has completed a breathtaking feat which makes simply climbing Earth’s highest peak seem easy. Andrzej Bargiel, 37, has become the first person to climb then ski down Mount Everest without any bottled oxygen.Pausing at the peak to record a video for his Instagram, Mr Bargiel declared: ‘I am on top of the highest mountain in the world and I’m going to descend it on skis.’For context, while more than 6,000 people have climbed Mount Everest, less than…
A leading psychiatrist whose work is widely cited as the reason autism rates have surged in the US has blasted President Donald Trump’s Tylenol warning as ‘absolutely moronic.’During a press conference Monday, Trump told expectant mothers not to take Tylenol, or generic acetaminophen, during pregnancy. He claimed it could raise the risk of their children developing autism.’Don’t take Tylenol,’ he said, ‘fight like hell not to take it.’Dr Allen Frances, a professor emeritus at Duke University, spearheaded the loosening of the definition of autism in the 1990s, allowing doctors to classify more children as autistic than ever before.Frances told the Daily…
By JAMES COHEN, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 04:27 BST, 27 September 2025 | Updated: 05:10 BST, 27 September 2025 College football fans have been left concerned after a field storm involving thousands of supporters took place on Friday night.What was set out to be a historic night for the Virginia Cavaliers – after they beat No. 8 ranked Florida state 46-38 in overtime – ended up being marred by the incident.In the final seconds of the game, FSU had one final chance to level the score but QB Thomas Castellanos saw his pass intercepted by Virginia’s Ja’Son Prevard.The catch meant that the…
Emmanuel Macron is facing mounting calls to pardon the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy after he was sensationally found guilty of criminal conspiracy.A Paris court on Thursday sentenced Sarkozy, 70, to five years in jail, a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban from public office over allegations he sought millions from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to fund his 2007 election campaign. But the shock ruling has sparked fury on the French right, with allies branding it a ‘tsunami of shame’ and urging Macron to step in.Should he pardon Sarkozy, he risks accusations of protecting the political elite. But refusing could alienate the…