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A toothpaste ingredient that stops the build-up of plaque bacteria may help fight drug-resistant malaria, a British robot scientist named Eve has discovered. Triclosan found in many toothpastes stuns the growth of the malaria parasite which has built up resistance to a common anti-malarial drug. When a mosquito infected with malaria parasites bites someone, it transfers the parasites into their bloodstream via its saliva. These parasites work their way into the liver, where they mature and reproduce. After a few...

The average UK household spend reached the highest level since before the financial crisis as finances get squeezed "left, right and centre". UK households spent £554.20 per week in the year to the end of last March, according to new ONS data, marking a rise of £21.20 in real terms when compared with the previous year. Transport was the top spending category, with an average of £79.70 shelled out a week on transport between April 2016 and March 2017 – an...

Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his self-made "Fake News Awards" last night in his latest attack on the free press. The move comes as the highly acclaimed The Post hits the big screens which reviewers have described as a "timely defence of the press and its freedom to expose corruption, even when it implicates or embarrasses those in political power". Among the "winners" of the fake news awards include the film's featured publications The New York Times and the...

“Why are the Government singling out the charter of fundamental rights to be the only piece of EU legislation that they wish to repeal?” Asked Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke this week. “I have yet to hear an example from anybody of a case where the charter of fundamental rights has been invoked in a way that anybody in this House would wish to reverse. We have not been given an example of an area of law that we have been...

By Tara Carey Today, the High Court is considering a case challenging the criminalisation and continued punishment of prostituted women, brought forward by several women who were pimped into prostitution as teenagers. If successful, the case will bring an end to the shameful practice of labelling and punishing victims of abuse and exploitation for something that was in a large part done to them. The effect of prostitution-specific records on women regarding jobs, housing and family life is excessively disproportionate...

A thug has been found guilty of murdering a teenage girl by strangling her as part of his "snuff movie fantasy" before stashing her body in a clingfilm-covered wardrobe. Evil Ashley Foster, 24, had only been released from prison three days before he throttled 17-year-old Megan Bills to death during a sick sex game. The church-going teenager's body was found badly decomposed at a hostel for former lags in Brierley Hill, West Mids., on May 3 last year. Jobless Foster...

An Islamic State loyalist showed beheading videos to children to persuade them to join the cause while he plotted a terror attack, a court heard today (tues). Umar Haque, 25, showed the videos to pupils and later had youngsters at a mosque carry out violent role play against the police, it was said. He is accused of planning an attack in London, with potential targets including Big Ben, the Queen's guards, Heathrow, the City of London, Westfield shopping centres, Transport...

A poor fox limped past 10 Downing Street looking for help - in the middle of the day. The injured critter, which is normally nocturnal, hobbled past the PM's home just before Amber Rudd emerged on Tuesday lunchtime. London, January 16 2018. A fox limps past the Prime Minister's office at 10 Downing Street as cabinet ministers meet inside. Photographer Paul Davey, who spotted the sad-looking creature, said: "He hobbled past once, and then came back the other way. "He...

Two teenagers who beat to death a homeless man to death because "it was funny" have been jailed for life for the "senseless act of mindless brutality." Alex Macdonald and Charlie White, both 19, and Jimmy Buckley, 20, beat 21-year-old Razvan Sirbu to death near the tent where he lived in a Kent beauty spot. The trio attacked the Romanian after coming across him late at night on May 6 in Tovil, Kent, where he lived in woodland. Mr Sirbu's...