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James GallagherHealth and science correspondentBBC/Fergus WalshProfessors Ed Wild and Sarah Tabrizi led the UK part of the trialOne of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors.The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease.An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of “good quality life”, Prof…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureGOAL! Betis 2-2 Nottm Forest (Antony 85)It’s been coming.Share80 min: Real Betis 1-2 Nottm Forest Fornals takes a short corner, gets it back from Antony and arrows a cutback that has a bit too much heat and height on it for Natan six yards out. The pressure is mounting on Forest.ShareThere have been goals for Braga and Malmo in the last few minutes. Check out the latest scores below. Betis 1-2 Nottm Forest Braga 1-0 Feyenoord Dinamo Zagreb 2-1 Fenerbahce Freiburg 2-0 Basel Malmo FF 1-2 Ludogorets Nice 1-2…

Five years ago, when we were all seeking ways to take our minds off real-world events, Supergiant Games’ Hades was a welcome distraction indeed. Wayward son of the underworld Zagreus’s repeated attempts to abscond from his purgatorial prison offered catharsis at a time when none of us could leave our homes. It did no harm that it was genuinely, unapologetically sexy: all of artist Jen Zee’s character designs had abs hewn from Olympian rock, and just about everyone addressed you as if they’d seen you from across the bar and really dug your vibe. Winning the favour of these absurdly…

FBI: ‘Anti-ICE’ message appeared on ammunition from Dallas ICE facility shootingTwo detainees have died and another is critically injured after a rooftop sniper opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in Dallas, Texas, officials say.The gunman fired indiscriminately at the ICE facility and at a nearby unmarked van, law enforcement officials say, before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No law enforcement were injured. FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo on X of unused ammunition recovered from the scene. One casing has the phrase “ANTI-ICE” on it.It is the latest in a string of attacks on…

Younger talents won out at San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum this year which allotted two top awards to “Do Not Let Me Die Alone,” from Chile’s Francisco Rodríguez Teare and Nicaraguan Laura Baumeister’s “What Follows Is My Death.”  The second feature by Rodriguez Teare whose “Otro Sol” won Latin American Feature at Mar del Plata. Here a miserable delivery boy gets by disposing of mummies recovered in Iquique, North of Chile. “The Chinchorro mummies emerge as figures that guide the characters’ journey, inviting us to explore the memory of bodies that transcend death,” says producer Rodrigo Díaz. Project teams…

Malawi’s former President Peter Mutharika has been declared the winner of last week’s elections, in a huge comeback for the 85-year-old. Official results show that he won 57% of the vote, compared to the 33% of President Lazarus Chakwera, 70. Chakwera, a pastor before entering politics, conceded defeat ahead of the final result being declared, phoning Mutharika to congratulate him on his “historic win”.Mutharika, a former professor of law, served as president from 2014 to 2020, when he lost to Chakwera by a wide margin. He inherits an economy that is in deep crisis, with a severe shortage of fuel…

131 The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) on Tuesday extended its bearish run as investors retreated from select equities, wiping out N322 billion from the total market value. At the close of trading, the All-Share Index fell by 568.62 points to 140,929.60, representing a decline of 0.4 per cent. The dip also pushed the market to a one-week loss of 0.44 per cent and a four-week loss of 0.36 per cent. However, despite the setback, the year-to-date return remained strong at 36.92 per cent. Market activity showed mixed signals. A total of 759,058,546 shares worth N25.72 billion were traded in 23,639 deals.…

new video loaded: Trump Pushes Unproven Link Between Tylenol and AutismBy Azeen Ghorayshi, Claire Hogan, Theodore Tae and June Kim•September 23, 2025Top U.S. health officials urged pregnant women not to use acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, claiming it could cause autism, though studies have been inconclusive. Azeen Ghorayshi, a science reporter for The New York Times, explains.

NewsFeedAt the 80th UNGA, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said the post-Cold War era is over and a new world order is emerging, with power shifting “towards the south and the east”, with Africa, Asia and Latin America rising key economic, political and cultural forces.Published On 24 Sep 202524 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

new video loaded: London’s Mayor Hits Back at Trump, Calling Him IslamophobictranscriptBacktranscriptLondon’s Mayor Hits Back at Trump, Calling Him IslamophobicAfter President Trump called him a “terrible, terrible mayor,” Sadiq Khan, who is Muslim, said the president was racist and Islamophobic.“And I have to say, I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Shariah law, but you’re in a different country. You can’t do that. Both the immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something is…