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In an exclusive extract from his book, released captive Eli Sharabi recalls his brutal abduction from his home on Kibbutz Be’eri On October 7 2023, Eli Sharabi was kidnapped from his home by Hamas terrorists. After being held for 491 days, mostly in a tunnel beneath Gaza, he was released in February of this year. Now he has written a book about his ordeal, memories of which he shared in an exclusive interview with The Telegraph’s Allison…

Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was in California on a speaking tour and died of natural causes, according to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall is best known for her work with chimpanzees in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. She was the first to discover that chimpanzees made and used tools1. She went on to become an advocate for conservation, human rights…

A satisfying yet light Vietnamese-inspired dish that blends bitterness, chilli-heat and a little sweetness This recipe is inspired by the tasty Vietnamese classic Bò Lúc Lac, or ‘shaking beef’. The beef and marinade are traditional, and here I have paired the watercress salad with some bitter and peppery rocket and delightfully sweet blush pears, and dressed it all with a tangy balsamic sauce. Ingredients - 2 rib-eye steaks, each about…

At President Donald Trump’s press conference last week, the headlines focused on his warnings about Tylenol use in pregnancy. But buried in the spectacle was a far more explosive remark — one that almost nobody noticed. Trump said he wanted to remove aluminium from vaccines. Gasp! It was the most significant claim of the entire press conference, yet it passed virtually unnoticed, and no one in the press corps challenged it. If carried…

For the average middle-aged man, nothing short of a severed limb or full-blown cardiac arrest would convince them to see the doctor, something that will be highly familiar to concerned wives up and down the country. This reluctance has been captured in a new survey from AXA Global Healthcare which showed that while 88 per cent would fix a car issue within a week, only 47 per cent would seek to act as swiftly in response to a health problem. …

After months of anticipation, the Government has unveiled its electricity market reforms. The verdict from across the political spectrum is damning: the package is a damp squib. Despite soaring power prices and an energy crisis that saw factories shuttered and households shivering, the coalition’s package is startlingly modest. Newsroom journalist Marc Daalder was the first to label the plan a “damp squib” that ignores 8 of the 10 key…

A vegetarian moussaka rich with chunks of delicious butternut pumpkin. Ingredients For the lentils - 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil - 1 large onion, finely chopped - 1 celery stick, diced - 2 garlic cloves, crushed - 250g puy lentils - 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes - 1 bay leaf - ½ tsp dried oregano - 5cm piece of cinnamon For the other vegetables - 700g pumpkin or squash, peeled and deseeded (prepared weight) - Extra-virgin olive oil,…

Higher education across the world is facing a panoply of challenges that threaten to undermine or drastically alter its future. In the United States, universities are grappling with huge cuts to federal funding and pressure from the government to change their teaching and research agendas. In the United Kingdom, financial pressures are pushing some institutions to the brink of bankruptcy. Universities elsewhere, including in Germany and the…

A one-time gene therapy can markedly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, potentially paving the way for the first ever treatment to alter the course of this rare, inherited brain disorder. In a small trial of 29 people who were in the early stages of Huntington’s-related decline, participants who received a high dose of the therapy directly into their brains saw the disease slow by 75% over three years, compared with those in a…

This three-ingredient recipe is sweet and silky – and quick and easy to make Based on a classic Turkish recipe, this pudding is sweet and silky, almost like a fig custard. The magic is that it only contains three ingredients: fibre-dense dried figs, milk and yogurt. You can add warm, earthy spices like cinnamon if you wish, but I like the natural flavour of the figs to come through. Ingredients - 200g soft dried figs - 250ml whole milk…

For centuries, the Lighthouse of Alexandria guided mariners to the bustling Mediterranean port and capital of Ptolemaic Egypt—a beacon of human ingenuity and a symbol of the ambition of the Hellenistic age. The Lighthouse, also known as the Pharos of Alexandria, was named after the tiny island at the harbor's mouth where it was built. Ancient Greek writers hailed it as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and it stood from the early third…

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has pushed back against calls for her resignation from former Labour Finance Minister Sir Roger Douglas and economist Robert MacCulloch, telling The Platform she is sticking to a cautious fiscal path. Willis said it was “surprising” to be singled out, arguing the government is doing what it was elected to do. “Our fiscal plan has us getting the books back into surplus by the 2028/29 year,” she said, adding that…

Alzheimer’s New Zealand is warning the country is “dangerously unprepared” for the coming surge in dementia cases, expected to more than double to 170,000 by 2050. Chief executive Catherine Hall said community-based rehabilitative services run by 17 organisations are “woefully underfunded and under-resourced,” despite keeping people out of “much more expensive” hospital and aged-care systems. She estimated more than 30,000 people living with…

Usually affectionate, it was when Bruce Willis started to become indifferent to his family that his wife, Emma, started to worry about him. In her new book, The Unexpected Journey, she describes how, along with the changes in his personality, it was the small and subtle things, such as struggling with speech and developing a stutter, that made her realise that there might be something wrong. The Die Hard actor has frontotemporal dementia…

There's new evidence that cruciferous vegetables blunt spikes in blood sugar levels, which could be particularly important for those with type 2 diabetes or are at risk of developing the condition. It's another feather in the health cap of these foods, which have been shown to fight colon cancer and high blood pressure. In a randomized, controlled, crossover trial led by Edith Cowan University (ECU), 18 participants with an average age of 68…

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though the Earth has blown holes in itself. While the origin story of these gas-emission craters (GECs) has remained somewhat of a mystery since the first one was discovered back in 2014, scientists now believe they know what's causing them. These fascinating GECs – all rocky cylinders plunging as deep as 164 m (538 ft) and…

Family First has written to Associate Health Minister Matt Doocey, urging the government to restrict the use of puberty blockers in under-18s, citing the Ministry of Health’s own Evidence Brief. It found “significant limitations in the quality of evidence” for their safety, efficacy, or reversibility. In the letter, CEO Bob McCoskrie and strategic director Simon O’Connor said: “We strongly believe … that the government must regulate under…

During the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris posted a campaign image of Labour volunteers with the caption: “This blows my mind!! Indians, Asians, Black and Pākehā campaigning to take a Māori seat from Māori.” The post was rightly decried as racist, but it also exposed a key contradiction: Ferris had no way of knowing their whakapapa. Instead, he applied the appearance test, blood quantum by another name, long…

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than 1,000 diseases, in some cases providing a prediction decades in advance1. The model, called Delphi-2M, uses health records and lifestyle factors to estimate the likelihood that a person will develop diseases such as cancer, skin diseases and immune conditions up to 20 years ahead of time. Although Delphi-2M was trained only on one data set from the…

In 2021, there were 99 fatal crashes in New Zealand where drugs were detected in a driver’s blood. Drugs are present in nearly one-third of all fatal crashes on New Zealand roads. Methamphetamine and cannabis are considered the two substances most commonly linked to impaired driving. Wastewater testing has shown meth use doubling nationally over the past year, while New Zealand continues to rank among the world’s highest consumers of…