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'Dil' of India turns choking lungs: Can Delhi fix its pollution crisis?

The air quality crisis in Delhi is an ongoing battle, often leading to emergency protocols like the GRAP being activated as pollution levels soar. While these short-term fixes bring momentary relief, they overlook the fundamental problems. To forge a path toward long-lasting improvements, we must commit to a year-round strategy to curb emissions from vehicles, factories, and farming activities.

DR MAX: Death rates from liver disease have quadrupled - and it's not just heavy drinkers dying. Just a bottle of wine over dinner or a cheeky gin is enough to send your chances soaring. THIS is how to offset the damage

DR MAX: Death rates from liver disease have quadrupled - and it's not just heavy drinkers dying. Just a bottle of wine over dinner or a cheeky gin is enough to send your chances soaring. THIS is how to offset the damageBy DR MAX PEMBERTON Updated: 15:02, 26 April 2026 e-mail 67 shares

Father's 'unquenchable thirst' was little-known symptom of deadly brain tumour

Gavin White, 46, was away with family in July 2023 when he suffered a seizure on the beach and was given six to 14 months to live.

प्रयागराज बना 'गर्म भट्टी': पारा 45 डिग्री के पार, आसमान से बरस रही आग ने थामी रफ्तार; डॉक्टरों ने जारी की चेतावनी

Toxins plus climate harms likely cause of reduced fertility, study finds

Researchers find ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposuresSimultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm, and may contribute to the broad global drop in fertility, new peer-reviewed research finds.The review of scientific literature considers how endocrine-disrupting chemicals, often found in plastic, coupled with climate change’s effects, such as heat...

Why vivid dreams feel stronger: Sleep experts decode restless nights

A restless night filled with vivid dreams isn't due to dreaming more, but rather failing to forget. Neuroscience suggests waking during REM sleep, when the brain's logic centers are offline, traps dream fragments in conscious memory. This interrupted forgetting, especially in early morning REM cycles, makes nights feel lived rather than slept.

Japan deploys 1,400 firefighters to battle raging wildfires in the north

Japan has deployed 1,400 firefighters and 100 Self-Defence Force personnel to battle mountain blazes in ​the northern part of the country, with the fires, ‌now burning on Sunday for a fifth straight day, continuing to threaten a picturesque coastal town. The area consumed by the fires reached 1,373 hectares as of early Sunday morning, up seven per cent from ​a day earlier. A helicopter conducts firefighting operations, as wildfires continue in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Jap...

UFC CEO Dana White brags he refused to duck for cover while calling correspondence dinner shooting: ‘F*****g awesome’

White, the CEO of UFC, was among the thousands in attendance at the Washington Hilton hotel when authorities say 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, armed with a shotgun, handgun and “multiple knives,” attempted to storm the event

US is taking a ‘real risk’ with hasty shift in efforts to fight HIV, experts say

Experts fear losing ground to virus even as the end of the HIV epidemic is in sight, and say decline in infant testing is ‘particularly concerning’The US government released likely the last report from Pepfar (President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) earlier this month and the chief science officer announced his resignation days later as the US moves to a patchwork of individual partnerships with each country, potentially driven by resource extraction.While more leadership with other countrie...

Whistleblower who exposed Kerry CAMHS scandal says HSE's children's mental health service failures amounts to 'SYSTEMIC HOMICIDE' - revealing shocking details of routine neglect of suicidal cases

Whistleblower who exposed Kerry CAMHS scandal says HSE's children's mental health service failures amounts to 'SYSTEMIC HOMICIDE' - revealing shocking details of routine neglect of suicidal casesBy MICHAEL O'FARRELL, INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR Published: 12:49, 26 April 2026 | Updated: 12:49, 26 April 2026 e-mail

Best electrolyte powders for rehydration– and how much London Marathon runners need

With searches for electrolytes at an all-time high, we look at who needs the hydration boost and what happens if you don’t

Pakistan reports 71 measles deaths in 4 months, Sindh records highest toll

Dubai: At least 71 children have died of measles across Pakistan in the first four months of 2026, with Sindh accounting for the highest toll, as health authorities warn of widening immunisation gaps and a growing pool of unvaccinated children, Dawn reported.Official data shows that Sindh recorded 40 of the 71 deaths, followed by 12 each in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and four in Balochistan. The figures come as the country marks World Immunisation Week 2026 from April 24 to 30, themed “For E...

Parenting expert's advice on how to 'build your village' as new research reveals more than a tenth of parents have no support

Parenting expert's advice on how to 'build your village' as new research reveals more than a tenth of parents have no supportDo YOU have a story? Email freya.barnes@dailymail.co.uk By FREYA BARNES, NEWS REPORTER Published: 11:18, 26 April 2026 | Updated: 11:18, 26 April 2026 e-mail View comments

Vaping 'worse than smoking' says cancer expert

The world-leading cancer researcher says vaping could be more damaging to our health than smoking.

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A dangerous virus that doesn't catch, spreads in IPL 2026

A dangerous virus that doesnt catch spreads in IPL

People taking day off sick on Monday told of April change to law

Seven major changes contained in the Employment Rights Act 2025 have come into force this April 2026 - including Statutory Sick Pay from day one

Martin Lewis says parents with children 1978-2010 could get £5,000

Personal finance expert has urged parents and carers who took time off work between 1978 and 2010 to check their National Insurance records

Blood, infertility and death: The struggle to save the lives of mothers and babies in Mozambique

Tawanda Karombo speaks to those seeking to keep maternal health programmes running in a remote northern province of Mozambique, after they have nearly ground to a halt in the wake of Donald Trump’s brutal aid cuts

'मुझे तुम्हारी बॉडी पसंद है', डायरेक्टर ने एक्ट्रेस को गलत तरीके से छुआ, रखी शर्त