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The aortic tear that likely caused the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is a medical emergency that can rapidly kill.The aorta is our largest artery, like a highway that arches up from the heart and then curves back down through the abdomen — carrying oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body as other arteries branch off from it.What doctors call an aortic dissection happens when a tear in its inner lining lets blood rapidly leak between its other layers, according to the American Heart Association. That reduces blood flow to vital organs, and sometimes can lead to a…
BBCShilpi Chotrani, who commutes from Spain to Gibraltar every day, can’t wait for the removal of the borderEvery weekday morning, Shilpi Chotrani rides her bicycle from her home in the Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción to Gibraltar. It’s a short journey but it means crossing an international border.A British Overseas Territory of around 40,000 inhabitants, Gibraltar has a border control for those entering and leaving.That means that during the morning and afternoon rush hours, when around 15,000 Spaniards who work in the territory cross the frontier, there can be long, time-consuming queues.”The fact that there is a…
‘We had an amazing life together, now it’s stopped’ – Malcolm TimbrellA British man whose wife and 12 friends and neighbours are feared to have been killed in the Spanish wildfires has told how he became separated from them as the flames raced towards his home.Malcolm Timbrell, 70, and his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, lived in the village of Bédar, in Almeria province, which was consumed by flames last Thursday evening, leaving 13 people dead.The devastated survivor spoke to the BBC outside his destroyed home high on the hillside.”You’d never imagine it could happen,” he said. “And when it does,…
Getty ImagesThe chief executive of the German car giant Volkswagen Group has confirmed it is looking to cut up to 100,000 jobs – twice as many as previously stated.The group, which includes Porsche, Audi, Seat and Skoda as well as the VW brand, had previously said it would axe some 50,000 posts in Germany by 2030.It suffered a steep decline in profits last year – the result of falling sales in key markets, as well as increasing competition from Chinese brands moving into Europe.In a widely-reported memo to staff, chief executive Oliver Blume said the Group’s costs were 20% higher…
Mike MacLeod/NewsflareA bull bison, reportedly weighing 2,000lb (900kg), sprinted towards an elderly man, ramming him with his head and knocking him into the air in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. Viral footage of the incident shows a boy and his grandfather snap a picture of the bison as it lays in the grass, before the massive animal jumps to its feet and chases after them. The man, who has been identified by US media as 65-year-old Carl Isom-McDaniel, sustained multiple injuries and was described by witnesses as “in a lot of pain”. He was sent to hospital, according to the New…
People flee Bangkok bar as huge flames shoot out from doorwayA huge fire tore through a bar in Thailand’s capital Bangkok late on Sunday, killing at least 28 people and leaving 25 critically injured. The blaze started near the stage of the bar in the popular Chatuchak district, then spread rapidly, cutting power and engulfing the room with smoke, eyewitnesses say.Footage posted online shows panicked customers screaming as they fled – some with their clothes on fire – through the flame-enveloped front door of Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao.Firefighters, who arrived at the scene just after midnight, quickly extinguished the…
Getty ImagesSam Neill, the New Zealand actor who has died aged 78, will forever be most associated with the film that made him an international star: Jurassic Park. The 1993 blockbuster dominated his filmography and sparked a series of sequels and reboots – including the recent Jurassic World series, in which he reprised his role as palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant.But there was much more to Neill’s career than escaping Velociraptors in the visitor centre of a billionaire’s tropical island.Across a career spanning five decades, Neill showed himself to be an actor of depth, capable of taking on a wide range…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — The space between stars just got a little sweeter.Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what’s called the interstellar medium: thin clouds of gas and dust littered between stars.Sugar does more than sweeten tea and powder doughnuts. Different varieties fuel our cells and even make up DNA. Scientists are itching to know how sugars form because they’re a key ingredient for life as we know it.Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud…
Getty Images/ BBCCounter terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe, after “new information and evidence”, officers have said.A 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was originally arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday but has now been re-arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.”We are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack,” head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said.On Thursday 78-year-old Widdecombe, a former Conservative minister and later Reform spokeswoman, was found dead at her home in Haytor, Devon, having…
ReutersBoris Nadezhdin attempted to run against Vladimir Putin in 2024An anti-war politician who tried to challenge Vladimir Putin at the last Russian presidential election has been arrested, according to his social media account.Boris Nadezhdin was taken to a police station in a town west of Moscow on Monday morning, weeks after announcing he would run as a candidate in September’s Duma (parliamentary) elections. “They took him from his home,” his press secretary told BBC Russian. “The reason for his detention is unknown.”Last week, Nadezhdin was designated a “foreign agent” by the justice ministry and accused of spreading false information about…