Details of a falling-out between two corporate titans are emerging after Joel Thickins, the co-head of TPG Capital Asia, was involved in a headline-grabbing crash in Sydney’s east earlier this month. Private equity baron Thickins was charged following a collision involving multiple vehicles in Paddington. He has since taken paid leave ahead…
Moment anti-greyhound racing protesters storm Hard Rock Café with placards and megaphones as confused diners watch on
By JOSHUA HAINING, NEWS REPORTER Published: 10:38 BST, 21 June 2026 | Updated: 14:53 BST, 21 June 2026 This is the moment anti-greyhound racing protesters stormed the Hard Rock Café in London with placards and megaphones as confused diners watched on. Activists charged into the restaurant in Westminster on June…
Temperatures to hit record-breaking 38C as ‘heat dome’ heads for Britain: Met Office issues four-day amber warning
Temperatures will climb to a record-breaking 38C next week as a ‘heat dome’ is set to hit Britain, with the Met Office issuing a new four-day Amber warning for extreme heat. Highs of 38C have now been forecast for Wednesday and Thursday in London by the national weather service –…
Can GLP-1s boost testosterone levels?
The latest generation of obesity drugs might have another potential benefit: improving fertility in men. A systematic review presented today at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, suggests that GLP-1 medications might increase testosterone levels and help to improve the quality of sperm in men with obesity. The…
Apple faces iPhone tribunal showdown: Millions of consumers could be in line for compensation
By ADAM LUCK Updated: 13:51 BST, 21 June 2026 Apple tried to conceal documents showing it deliberately degraded the performance of old iPhones, a tribunal starting this week will hear, in a move that, if successful, could leave millions of consumers in the UK in line for compensation. On Friday,…
The Mother of All Cons ‘fairy godmum’ who duped One Direction into believing her daughter was dying from a brain tumour reinvents herself under a fake name as a globe trotting social media influencer
She’s the ‘controlling and manipulative’ mother whose daughter died in mysterious circumstances after hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations went missing from the charity she set up to help sick children. Mother-of-five Jean O’Brien, 71, is facing calls for a police investigation to be opened into the death of…
A mysterious gamma-ray stream comes from the Milky Way’s center. Could dark matter have something to do with it?
One of the most hotly debated mysteries in astronomy is set to continue, as new research fails to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of gamma-ray emissions from the heart of the Milky Way. Known as the Galactic Center Excess, a spherical gamma-ray glow extending out for thousands…
How becoming a dad changes men’s brains
Father’s Day is an opportunity to recognize the efforts of dads everywhere. But becoming a father is more than just a lifestyle change—it alters one’s brain, too. Scientific American spoke with Devika Bhushan, a public health physician and adjunct faculty member at Stanford University School of Medicine, who studies gender…
Doctors could have saved autistic teenager, 18, who died after swallowing plastic fork ‘if they acted sooner’
An autistic teenager who swallowed a plastic fork would have survived if doctors acted sooner, an inquest has heard. Natalia Cestaro, 18, suffered ‘significant pain and clinical deterioration’ before she died in a Coventry hospital on November 15, 2023. Doctors suspected there was a partial tear in her stomach while…
Three teenagers die in Milan after ‘drink driver’ plunges car carrying nine people into canal
By PERKIN AMALARAJ, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 12:13 BST, 21 June 2026 | Updated: 12:18 BST, 21 June 2026 Three teenagers have died after a ‘drunk driver’ carrying nine people in his car crashed into a canal in Milan. The 19-year-old driver, an Italian citizen, was driving at dawn today…