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While listening to the natural soundscape reduced stress and anxiety and enhanced mood after a stressor, those benefits were limited when traffic sounds were added. The highest levels of stress were ...

Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders for murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others, between June ...

I would like to dispel all the myths around assisted dying, that people could be coerced. That it’s against God. I would just like people to know it is a dignified choice.’ These were the words of ...

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike “decision-making centres” in Kyiv with Moscow ’s new intermediate-range ballistic missile. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

The prosecutions, brought by Northern Rail and TransPennine Express, were declared ‘null and void’ during a hearing at ...

Vaping is coming before the Supreme Court next week as federal regulators ask the high court to uphold its block on sweet, flavored products following a spike in youth e-cigarette use ...

The estimates, covering the previous Conservative government’s administration prior to the general election, have since dropped by 20% and stood at 728,000 in the latest period for the year to June ...

Former soldier led police on 75-hour manhunt after escape from Wandsworth prison and has now been convicted of spying for ...

Kretinsky, known as the Czech Sphinx because of his low profile, has promised to maintain six days of postal deliveries per week ...