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NBA star Rudy Gobert has voiced his approval of Donald Trump’s appointee for health secretary ahead of the president-elect’s return to the White House. As the clock ticks down to his inauguration on January 20, Trump has already begun to rapidly fill the spots up for grabs in his cabinet and the West Wing. And, amid the slew of appointments, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become one of the most influential men in health. The Trump rival-turned-endorser has been named as the president-elect’s pick for Secretary of Health & Human Services. The announcement sent shockwaves through the public health sector due to Kennedy’s controversial…
The average iPhone user has at least 60 apps installed on their device.While you may see them for communicating, counting calories or navigating a new town, companies pack them with sneaky permission requests and hidden trackers to generate revenue.Developers have taken advantage of Apple’s smartphone settings to gain access to the websites you use, where you travel and places you visit, creating a profile of users that can be sold to the highest bidder.These tactics are legal because the companies behind the apps give you a choice to opt in or out by clicking a few menus on your smartphone,…
Ozempic: it’s a word few people had heard of a year ago, but is now discussed openly at office water coolers, dinner parties and mothers’ groups.Officially speaking, it is a treatment for type 2 diabetes. But increasingly doctors are prescribing it ‘off label’ for its weight loss effect.Not since the dawn of Viagra in the late 1990s has a pharmaceutical drug so rapidly entered our cultural lexicon. Barely a day goes without a celebrity or high-profile figure confessing to using it – or accused of doing so surreptitiously.But what is it really like taking Ozempic when your life is in…
A top US scientist claims to have discovered evidence of an afterlife, thanks to studies involving millions of patients who’ve experienced an ‘early stage’ of death — when the heart stops, and there is a fatal half of oxygen to the brain.According to Dr Sam Parnia, an associate professor of medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, patients who wake up after this frequently recount ‘starting to relive every single moment of their lives’.Particularly ‘remarkable, he claims, is that they relive memories not only from their own perspective, but as if they’re looking through other people’s eyes.These phenomena, which have been…
Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy shared an emotional tribute to the late singer in a TikTok video on Sunday.In a since-deleted clip, Cassidy, 25, grieved her loss with a home video of adorable moments they shared together during their two years together before his tragic death in October.The One Direction singer died at age 31 on October 16 after falling from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.Nearly three weeks after laying him to rest in Amersham, near his hometown in England, she compiled the tribute video and wrote in her caption: ‘I love you.’This comes after she revealed…
By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 03:13 EST, 21 December 2024 Warhammer maker Games Workshop will make its debut on the blue-chip FTSE 100 index on Monday.It is the culmination of an astonishing rise for the fantasy figurine maker.Shares in the Nottingham-based business have risen by nearly 2600 per cent over the past decade, valuing it at just under £4.3billion.This puts it close on the heels of budget airline EasyJet – worth just over £4.3billion – and B&Q owner Kingfisher at £4.5billion.The group’s elevation was helped this month when it agreed a final deal with Amazon for the US giant to turn…
This is, by some measures, the very deepest canyon in the world. Awesome, echoing, grandiose, and thickly forested from fearful depths to snow-scarred peaks. But where is this? America? Australia? China?Look closer, and you will spy ancient monasteries clinging to the sides of the precipitous slopes. And those ornate, medieval, Orthodox Christian monasteries will give you a clue. This is Greece.Specifically, it is the Vikos Gorge in the Pindus mountains of historic Epirus, an area called Zagori in the northwest corner of the Greek mainland.Few people come here but Zagori is wildly seductive: like a kind of rugged Greek Tuscany,…
Incredible footage has captured the moment an asteroid smashed through Earth’s atmosphere over Siberia.The space rock, designated COWECP5, appeared in the night sky at 11:14pm local time (11:14am ET) hours after NASA’s asteroid detection system put out the warning.Locals posted videos on social media showing the asteroid streaking through the night sky and bursting into a ball of flames before disappearing into the abyss.The space rock exploded in a stunning red light over Yakutia, soaring over the bright city lights and was seen firing off flames as it flew over Olekminsk.The emergencies ministry in Yakutia said all official had been placed on alert…
A New York pizzeria has dethroned a southern Italian restaurant as the ‘best in the world’.Una Pizza Napoletana, located on the Lower East Side, has been praised by the World 50 Top Pizza Awards 2024, on Tuesday. Last year, they placed number two – behind Masanielli in the Campanian city of Caserta – but emerged months later to take home the prize.The 50 Top Pizza Awards – dubbed the ‘Michelin awards for pizzerias’ is an annual event that recognises the best pizzerias and chefs in the world, based on a rigorous selection process involving anonymous visits by experienced pizza critics.Owned by Anthony Mangieri, Una…
The driver who allegedly struck the grandmother of football superstar Sam Kerr with his ute has been charged with one count of dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm.The man, 63, will appear before the Fremantle Magistrates Court in Western Australia on February 4.It comes after Coral Kerr, 89, stepped off a bus in the southwest Perth suburb of Palmyra about 11am Friday local time when the driver allegedly mounted the kerb in an attempt to overtake the bus before hitting her. At the time, Sam Kerr and her father Roger were at picturesque winery Krinklewood Estate in the NSW Hunter Valley…