The Blaze became the first side to secure a top-three finish in this Women’s One-Day Cup and a guarantee of a place in the knockout stage. The Nottingham-based side beat Warwickshire by 70 runs at Edgbaston to stretch their lead over second-placed Hampshire to five points on a day when Somerset, Surrey and holders Lancashire
A far-right member of the Israeli parliament has badly damaged a Palestinian memorial with a sledgehammer in the occupied West Bank while under military escort. The incident has drawn strong criticism from Palestinians and across the political spectrum in Israel. Video footage showed Zvi Sukkot, a member of the far-right Religious Zionism party, and several
Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs. utah778/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption utah778/Getty Images For stories on the science of healthy living, subscribe to NPR’s Health newsletter. Every year Jim Evans faces the challenge of keeping health care
Busy Philipps revealed she had a malignant brain tumor removed weeks before she was set to start filming her new CBS show “Cupertino.” “I’m grateful that I’m alive,” Philipps told People. What started as an unnecessary, but precautionary full-body MRI that checks for more than 500 conditions ended up saving Philipps’ life. The “Freaks and
In terms of Root’s second coming as skipper, the off-field part might be the easy bit. It is on the field where he now has a point to prove. He said as much last week before the Headingley Test – that the biggest challenge in resuming the captaincy was overcoming the perceptions others have of
A study this month at the Harvard Medical School in the US, external found that flight attendants and pilots had the highest level of radiation-related cancer deaths among more than 500 different professions. In all, about 6.9% of deaths among flight attendants and 6.7% of deaths among pilots were from radiation-related cancers, according to the
