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Trump’s attack was racist, says Pelosi after calling majority-black district ‘disgusting, rat-infested mess’
The president lashed out in tweets against Representative Elijah Cummings.
Leaving EU without deal a threat to UK science sector, charity warns
Leaving the EU without a deal is a threat to the UK’s “thriving” science sector.
Poor people need affordable healthy food, chief medical officer warns
Dame Sally Davies said she is ‘immensely worried’ that it is cheaper to eat unhealthy food.
As medics come out for Extinction Rebellion, this doctor has been on hunger strike for two weeks for climate action
"As caring professionals we cannot countenance current policies which push the world’s most vulnerable towards progressive environmental catastrophe.”
In Pictures: Comic Con fans dress to impress
Thousands of people are in Manchester for the event.
Dozens of bodies recovered after Europe-bound migrant vessels capsize off Libya
Survivors have been transferred to a detention centre which has been targeted in airstrikes.
Bugs resistant to antibiotics found in London’s rivers, canals and ponds
The water contains high levels of DNA that cannot be killed by common drugs such as penicillin, erythromycin and tetracycline
Monkeys help regenerate rainforests…through their poo
Researchers studied the dispersal and germination of seeds as well as the growth and genetic origin of various plants in a forest that had emerged from a former pasture in Peru
A paedophile who was first person in Britain to be caught live-streaming child sex abuse has been jailed
Matthew Bell, 51, watched children in the Philippines being abused