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  • I’ve slept with hundreds of women in my head: Elon Musk’s father

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    London, Aug 8 Errol Musk, 76, who is father of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has said that he is not a 'Lothario' (serial womanizer) but in his head, he has "slept with many women". After revealing last month that he had a second child with his own stepdaughter Jana Bezuidenhout, ...
  • This blood protein may flag risk of diabetes, death from cancer

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    London, Aug 8 Researchers have identified a blood protein whose elevated levels may raise risk of developing diabetes and death from cancer. Prostasin is a stimulator of epithelial sodium channels that regulate sodium balance, blood volume and blood pressure. The protein has been found to suppress high blood sugar-induced tumour ...
  • Truss, Sunak clash over cost-of-living crisis

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    London, Aug 8 Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the two contenders vying to replace UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have clashed over the cost-of-living crisis. Truss or Sunak will be elected as Conservative Party leader on September 5, the day the Commons returns from its summer recess, and therefore also ...
  • Johnson allies accuse UK MPs of conducting a ‘witch hunt’

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    London, Aug 8 Conservative allies of outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson have accused a committee of MPs investigating whether he misled Parliament of conducting a "vengeful and vindictive" "witch hunt". Although he is due to leave Downing Street in less than a month, the Commons Privileges Committee is going ...
  • Number of people crossing English Channel in small boats passes 18,000

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    London, Aug 7 The total number of people who have crossed the English Channel so far this year has passed 18,000, according to figures published on Sunday by the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD). On Saturday, 337 people crossed the Channel in 10 small boats, bringing the total number of ...
  • Six Russian military officers sacked since war began: UK intelligence

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    London, Aug 7 At least six senior Russian military officers are believed to have been sacked since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, according a British intelligence update on Sunday. The poor performance of the armed forces during the invasion has been costly for the Russian military leadership, most likely ...
  • River Thames’ source moves 8km downstream for 1st time in history

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    London, Aug 6 The source of the River Thames in England has moved 8 km downstream for the first time in its history. While parts of the riverbed in Gloucestershire regularly dry out during the summer, experts said it was a worrying sign of the impact of the climate crisis ...
  • UK ‘must take more action on monkeypox or it will become endemic’

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    London, Aug 5 LGBT+ groups from across the political spectrum have joined forces to demand the UK government increase efforts to combat monkeypox or risk it becoming "endemic" in the country. The US on Thursday declared a public health emergency over the virus, which in the majority of the cases ...
  • 1 in 8 patients develop long Covid symptoms: Lancet

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    London, Aug 5 One in eight adults (12.7 per cent) who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience long term symptoms due to Covid-19, suggests a large Dutch study published in The Lancet. The researchers found that several symptoms were new or more severe three to five months after having Covid-19, compared ...
  • Truss, Sunak face off in TV debate for UK’s premiership

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    London, Aug 5 In yet another televised debate, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the contenders for the UK's Prime Ministerial race, faced off over the country's economy. During the Sky News debate on Thursday evening, Sunak warned Truss's economic strategy will damage the nation, saying that pouring "fuel on the ...