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What is behind the increase of non-Covid related deaths?

2 September 2020 9:38 pm

The latest data on weekly deaths in England and Wales, published today by the Office of National Statistics, show what…

How Covid spread in Sweden's care homes

10 August 2020 11:11 pm

Why did Covid prove so lethal in care homes? Between 2 March and 12 June, there were 66,112 deaths of…

Is Bernie Ecclestone the world’s oldest father?

11 April 2020 9:00 am

Game on A few things which are still going on, in spite of coronavirus: — Football in Belarus, where the…

Gunboats are the humanitarian answer to Libya's refugee crisis

25 April 2015 9:00 am

More than a thousand migrants have died attempting to get into Europe over the past week, including 900 who perished…

In Gaza, the siege mentality is helping Hamas

19 July 2014 9:00 am

  Gaza The main entrance to Al-Shifa Hospital was crowded with what seemed to be journalists. This wasn’t unusual. They…

Our enemy is not global warming. In Britain, people are dying of the cold

30 November 2013 9:00 am

Fanciful predictions of all the deaths that will result from climate change, decades into the future, are regularly thrown into…