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More than 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable harm or died due to poor care at a UK hospital, according to a damning report published Wednesday in the country’s latest maternity scandal. At least 156 cases involved the death of babies, and six mothers also died at two units run by Nottingham University Hospitals Trust in central England. The independent probe was the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS), involving over 2,500 families in cases spanning 13 years from 2012 to 2025. It comes after a string of other investigations in recent…

Downing Street aides are planning to lobby Andy Burnham during access talks to revive the idea of “war bonds” to pay for higher defence spending when he becomes prime minister, the Guardian understands.Senior No 10 figures want the Treasury to be allowed to borrow more for military spending and will try to convince Burnham to invest beyond the £13.5bn earmarked for the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan (Dip).Defence aides are also understood to have travelled to Makerfield during the byelection campaign to bring Burnham’s team up to speed on the state of the UK’s depleted defence capabilities.Although Burnham is now expected…

•Urges Nigerians to protect currency By Emma Ujah, Abuja Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, has launched the CBN Naira Ambassadors Club, a campaign aimed at promoting respect for and proper handling of the Naira among young Nigerians. Speaking at the inauguration of the club, comprising secondary school students in the Federal Capital Territory, Cardoso said: “The Naira is much more than paper and polymer. It is the legal tender of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It facilitates trade, supports economic activity, enables savings and investment, and serves as a visible expression of our national…

A San Francisco startup with ties to Elon Musk’s Neuralink has started testing its brain implant to detect and treat cancer in humans.Coherence Neuro says it temporarily placed its coin-sized implant in the brains of three people undergoing surgery to have brain tumors removed at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. The implant was in place for roughly 30 minutes before being removed, providing an important safety check before the device can be implanted long-term in patients with brain cancer.Known as a brain-computer interface, the Coherence Neuro device is designed to sense the unique electrical signals of tumors and deliver…

The former Greater Manchester mayor could find himself in Downing Street as soon as mid-July.

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Jeff BorzelloJun 23, 2026, 09:59 PM ETClose Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Multiple AuthorsLess than six hours after the Dallas Mavericks officially announced Dusty May as their new head coach Tuesday, they drafted one of May’s former players with their first pick of the NBA draft.The Mavericks picked Michigan forward Morez Johnson Jr. with the No. 9 pick, with Johnson reuniting with May and somewhat surprisingly becoming the first of three Wolverines players off the board in the lottery. Yaxel Lendeborg and Aday Mara were selected at No. 11 and No. 12, respectively.Johnson, a…

At 4.45pm in Châtelet, central Paris, a man leans out of his third-floor balcony, blasting EDM from his speakers. A makeshift cardboard sign is strapped to his decks, detailing his Instagram account in capital letters. On both sides of him, his friends hype him up from opened windows, and on the ground a crowd has started to gather. Completely spontaneous, slightly ridiculous and entirely alive, this is typical of Fête de la Musique.Born in 1982 as a free, France-wide, government-sanctioned initiative to encourage citizens to pick up instruments and play for their neighbours, the Fête has long since outgrown its…

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi A new chapter has begun for Lafarge Africa Plc as the company officially unveiled its new corporate identity and name to HBM Nigeria Plc. The transition marks a significant milestone in the company’s transformation journey and strategic alignment with its new shareholders’ structure. According to a statement issued by the Head of Corporate Affairs of the company, Ginikanwa Frank-Durugbor, which was made available to journalists in Bauchi yesterday, the change to HBM Nigeria Plc reflects the company’s continued evolution as one of Nigeria’s leading building solutions providers, combining strong local roots with enhanced global industrial collaboration. The…

Western Europe’s second record-shattering heat wave in a month aligns with a grim trend: For the past three decades, Europe has been warming faster than any other continent.Average temperatures there have climbed by roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit, or 0.56 degrees Celsius, per decade since the mid-1990s, more than double the pace of warming worldwide, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service.Emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from human activity are driving the planet’s long-term increase in temperatures, which is helping hot spells reach ever-greater extremes of severity and duration.But local factors determine how all that excess…