Lifestyle

  An NHS oncology nurse forced to crowdfund treatment for her own terminal cancer - as the drug is not available on the NHS has raised tens of thousands of pounds in days and is commencing treatment today. As we reported three days ago brave Laura Harris, 42, has devoted her life to helping cancer patients but has been told there is no treatment available on the NHS for her own fight with the disease. She was diagnosed with stage...

Hundreds of refugees in south London will receive free English language classes to help them integrate into the community. City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable arm, awarded charity Community Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (CARAS) £84,520 in funding to run the scheme. The grant means that over the next three years, CARAS, based in Wandsworth, will provide English language (ESOL) classes to over 200 people whose first language is not English. The classes will be available...

Kids want their parents to ditch their phones, spend less time worrying about work - and stop taking embarrassing snaps of them when they are on holiday, a study has found. A poll of 1,000 6-12-year-olds found youngsters also reckon mum and dad spend too much time reading books by the pool instead of having fun and take too many naps. But the poll, by Marella Cruises, found children are most annoyed by parents who insist on making them wear excessive...

Watching kettles boil, waiting for buses and standing in line at the post office - it all adds up in the end to a considerable chunk of wasted time! The average Brit spends the equivalent of more than TWO YEARS of their lives 'killing time', it has emerged. Researchers found we typically waste 42 minutes a day waiting for everything from friends to buses and trains. Standing in a queue at the supermarket and sitting in traffic also leave us...

Scientists at Anglia Ruskin University are carrying out research that promises to make some of our favourite processed foods healthier. A talk in Cambridge this Saturday, dubbed "Burgers, bacteria and heart disease: Making sense of the processed food debate", will unveil how some of the nation's most loved meals could become far less harmful. Dr Erridge has discovered that many processed foods contain chemicals that cause our immune systems to be over-activated. Molecules called PAMPs (pathogen associated molecular pattern) are released...

This is the moment a hungry orca circles a trawler desperate to catch any fish that fall from the sides. The killer whale went after the fishing boat as it caught herring off the coast of Kvaenangen in Norway. The orca bull seemed reluctant to let the fish go and bobbed up and down on the surface of the sea waiting for any that fell from the net. Photographer Kurt Arrigo, 48, was on another boat and captured the whale...

With cryptos set to take over the financial sector, people are going all in to invest early andstand to rake in some profits as the prices step up. However, it’s always prudent to make efforts to ensure that whatever you’re investing in is real and has potential for bringing you profits. Being one of the currently most prolific cryptos creating quite a buzz Dascoin has, of course, been a subject of discussion on various forums and blogs. The big question is:...

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? In simple language, we can say that Artificial Intelligence is the branch of technology through which machines attain the power to reason, understand and take decisions as well while simultaneously learning from the impact of the decisions. Making it more simple, with the help of AI, machines can do the tasks, earlier done by humans, only much faster and free of any kind of mistakes or errors. Many companies and organizations are using Artificial Intelligence...

Viagra may reduce the risk of bowel cancer, according to new research. The study suggests that a small, daily dose of the drug prescribed to tackle erectile dysfunction "significantly reduces" the risk of colorectal cancer risk in animals. Scientists found that Viagra cut in half the formation of polyps, an abnormal and clump of cells on the lining of the intestines that may become cancer. Dr. Darren Browning, of Augusta University in the United States, says the next steps should...