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UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term...

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti as part of a US-backed security intervention aiming to rescue the Caribbean country from a criminal insurrection that toppled the prime minister and brought death and chaos to the streets....

Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights...

A dangerous strain of mpox that is killing children and causing miscarriages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most transmissible yet and could spread internationally, scientists have warned....

A newly identified tipping point for the loss of ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could mean future sea level rise is significantly higher than current projections....

A man who narrowly survived an ebike battery fire that killed his partner and two children says he is tormented by grief and guilt but determined to fight to change the law to avoid similar tragedies....

Vivek Murthy made declaration after weekend in which dozens of Americans were killed or wounded in mass shootings...

Higher PFAS exposure could cause lactation to slow or stop altogether within six months, new research finds...

The international criminal court issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for Russia’s former defence minister and its military chief of staff for attacking civilian targets in Ukraine....

New research has found for the first time that PFAS “forever chemicals” accumulate in the testes, and the exposure probably affects children’s health....

Reports surface days before UN summit on Afghanistan that will exclude Afghan women and debate on women’s rights...

As Israel’s offensive in Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history, its military has repeatedly said it is not deliberately targeting the media....

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard service to clear its ranks of people discrediting it after two of its officers were accused of plotting to assassinate senior officials....

The World’s Ugliest Dog annual contest may not render the most flattering title to its victor, but don’t tell that to Wild Thang....