Month: January 2026

Keir Starmer says the move, announced during his trip to Beijing, will help support thousands of British jobsBritain’s biggest drugmaker AstraZeneca is to invest $15bn (£11bn) in China, it announced during Keir Starmer’s visit to the country, just months after cooling on plans for expansion in the UK.The Cambridge-based company said it would spend the money by 2030 to expand medicines manufacturing and research and development in China, where it […]

New study into ‘heritability’ shows that 50% of the variation in human lifespan could be down to geneticsSome people who live to a great age put it down to an evening tot of whisky, others to staying out of trouble. Now scientists think they may have unlocked a key secret to long life – quite simply, genetics.Writing in the journal Science, the researchers described how previous studies that had attempted […]

Star says seaside town ‘inhabited by creativity’ and shares love for a local restaurant after dropping in on Tracey EminIf you were to guess where Madonna goes on holiday, you might think Mustique or the Maldives – Margate probably wouldn’t make the list.But the pop superstar spent the weekend there and enthused on an Instagram post that “the whole town seems to be inhabited and energised by creativity”, and that […]

Deployment of RAF Typhoon squadron to Qatar signals willingness to protect country from a counterattackBritain is unlikely to assist the US in an attack on Iran but a deployment of RAF Typhoons to Qatar last week signals a willingness to help regional allies if Tehran tries to widen the conflict in retaliation.A first strike on Iran is unlikely be in line with the UK’s interpretation of international law, but British […]

Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened effortsCovert meetings between separatist activists in the Canadian province of Alberta and members of Donald Trump’s administration amount to “treason”, the premier of British Columbia said on Thursday.“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that – and that word is treason,” David Eby told reporters. […]