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Catherine sees how her charity climb funds are helping hospital

BBC News

Catherine, Princess of Wales has visited the hospital where she was treated for cancer after completing a charity climb to help fund a new unit there earlier this year. Catherine carried out the Three Peaks Challenge in June, which involves climbing the highest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales within 24 hours, in aid of the Royal Marsden in London. The amount of money she raised has not been made public, but it will go towards a new unit offering complementary healing alongside clinical care. The princess, who announced she was receiving cancer treatment in March 2024, spoke to patients and staff about the importance of supporting patients with more than just physical treatment. Catherine sat down and chatted to those receiving treatment at the hospital on Friday, including patients with breast cancer, head and neck cancer and a brain tumour.


More Americans Are Losing Health Insurance--And Everyone Will Pay

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Israeli attacks on Gaza kill at least four, including children

Al Jazeera

'This is an apartheid regime' Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu? At least four people have been killed and several wounded in Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, health officials said. At least three people, including two children, were killed and eight people were wounded in an Israeli drone attack in the al-Kateeba district west of Gaza City in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning, a medical source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera. Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud said he counted at least 13 drones in the area at the time of the attack. "For 35 minutes there were nonstop attacks involving drones, three of them hovering at a dangerously low level," he said.


What happens when AI runs out of pictures?

AIHub

What happens when AI runs out of pictures? A hospital may only ever collect a few dozen scans of a rare condition - for example, an unusual tumour. The radiology department wants software to flag this on a scan - not to replace the specialist, but so a hospital without one still gets their scan checked the same way. The clinicians know what they're looking for. Over a decade, the hospital might gather 40 confirmed cases.


Multiple fires destroy homes and cause devastation in West Midlands

BBC News

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A child and three firefighters were among those taken to hospital as several fires raged across the West Midlands, destroying homes and forcing dozens of residents to evacuate from their houses. As the UK recorded its hottest day of the year, fire services in the region said they experienced extreme levels of demand on Thursday. A huge blaze near Stourbridge Golf Course saw about 100 firefighters battling the fire which spread rapidly through dry grass and woodland, setting alight six homes. Elsewhere in the region four homes were destroyed by fire in Stoke-on-Trent, a woman was seriously injured in a blaze in Castle Vale, Birmingham, and a major incident was declared because of a fire in Warwickshire.


A Fake Pregnancy and a Kidnapping: The True Story Behind A Child of My Own

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'The fish is in the right' says man bitten by blue shark while angling

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'The fish is in the right' says man bitten by blue shark while angling A man who was bitten by a shark on a boat off the coast of County Waterford is due to undergo surgery. Sebastian Achim was part of a crew tagging sharks for research off Ram Head, Ardmore, when the incident happened on Tuesday. The crew, who were experienced fishermen, were catching the sharks, tagging them and then releasing them back into the sea. Later in the day, Achim caught another shark and was bitten in the leg after pulling it into the boat. 'The fish is in the right' Speaking to RTÉ Radio One's Morning Ireland, external programme, Achim said the plan was to hook the shark, tag it and release it.


Russian attacks kill six in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia

Al Jazeera

Is the war entering a new phase? Russian attacks kill six in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Overnight Russian attacks have killed six people in southeastern Ukraine and struck a children's hospital in the capital Kyiv, according to local officials. The attacks early Tuesday included long-range missiles, officials said, part of a Russian campaign to overwhelm Ukraine's air defences as Kyiv faces a shortage of Patriot interceptors . He posted pictures on social media showing buildings and vehicles ablaze, and said there had also been power outages. A ballistic missile attack on Kyiv also caused damage and wounded one person.


Time traveler claiming to be from the year 4413 delivers ominous warning about humanity's fate

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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'I ran because I knew I would die': Russian drones target medics in Ukraine

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'I ran because I knew I would die': Russian drones target medics in Ukraine Inna Lytvynenko always puts on her bright orange body armour when she's out on an emergency call. Last June, the paramedic was sent out in Kherson to treat a woman injured in a Russian drone attack, when an FPV drone smashed into her ambulance. Seconds later, she heard a buzzing sound in the sky. Another drone was flying straight towards her, fast. I grabbed my trauma bag and started running, she recalls.