Watching too much television increases your risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, researchers have found. And sitting down to watch the small screen is worse than doing so at work or when driving because viewers tend to snack at the same time, the data suggests. Couch potatoes …...Read More

Every British garden is linked to our nation's controversial colonial past - but that is nothing to be ashamed of, presenter Monty Don claims. The TV gardener, 65, insists we should not feel guilty about growing and enjoying plants plundered and brought back more than 200 years ago. Instead, he …...Read More

She likes to celebrate the publication of each of her books with ‘a cold glass of champagne —with lots of bubbles’. But best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop may feel in the mood for a bottle of retsina this morning — if not a magnum. For I can disclose that she has …...Read More

Zoom meetings and video calls have become the new normal for many employees in the age of coronavirus. But they have also led to women workers being subjected to sexist demands by bosses to ensure they look attractive on camera. A shocking 35 per cent of female staff say they …...Read More

Kerala is mulling a statewide lockdown after daily cases crossed 1,000 for the first time, Manipur has imposed a 14 day lockdown, and Bhopal a 10-day lockdown. These developments are coming in even as the results of the Delhi serosurvey are forcing experts to rethink their Covid containment strategies. The …...Read More

“Once you get to the point of being hospitalized or in the I.C.U., some notable portion of those people will die,” said Natalie E. Dean, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Florida. Even when patients walk out of the hospital, “we don’t know what the long-term consequences are,” she …...Read More

A protein drug may help improve the conditions of severely ill coronavirus patients, a new small study suggests. Interleukin 7 (IL-7) immunotherapy was found to restore counts of a specific white blood cell in those critically with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. The international team, led by Université …...Read More

It is a reminder of two things. First, in the cyberage, closing a diplomatic facility has the faint ring of the Cold War, but most of the attacks on American corporations, laboratories and the government are launched from servers outside American borders. And second, without firing a bullet or dropping …...Read More

Dr Max Pemberton (pictured) says the UK's obesity epidemic should be addressed by tackling the underlying causes NO By Dr Max Pemberton, Mail columnist This is a nice idea: we can solve our country’s obesity crisis with surgery. Forget about diets, willpower and treadmills. All you need is a scalpel …...Read More

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that he never spoke with his ambassador to Britain about asking the British government if it could help steer the world-famous British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland. The ambassador, Robert Wood Johnson IV, told multiple colleagues in February …...Read More