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A half-Nigerian, half-German woman is desperately searching the world for a stem-cell donor. Astrid has leukaemia. However, due to her mixed race, her chances of finding a match are extremely unlikely. That’s because global stem cell registries do not reflect the world’s diversity. The majority of registered donors are white. Only 3% of stem cell […]

Image copyright Getty Images The children of women who experience severe stress when pregnant are nearly 10 times more likely to develop a personality disorder by the age of 30, a study suggests. Even moderate prolonged stress may have an impact on child development and continue after a baby’s birth, it said. More than 3,600

Theo Campbell, who appeared on Love Island in 2017, lost sight in one of his eyes after it was hit with a champagne cork at a party in Ibiza. Speaking for the first time since the incident, the former track athlete told Newsbeat he’s now having to adapt to his new life. But although doctors

Comedy is the cornerstone of Madison Moxley and Mason Whitis’ relationship: Moxley is a comedian and Whitis excels at doing any weird thing he can to make his partner laugh. So when the Louisville, Kentucky, couple got engaged in late August, they started brainstorming funny engagement photo ideas. “We ultimately decided on tacky ’80s photos

U.S. college students are using marijuana at the highest rates in 35 years, according to a report released Thursday. About 43% of full-time college students said they used some form of pot at least once in the past year, up from 38%, a University of Michigan survey found. About 25% said they did so in

People have been trying to ban J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” books ever since they hit shelves more than 20 years ago. Just this week, a Catholic elementary school in Tennessee removed the books from its library because one of the school’s pastors believed “the curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and

The Trump administration is moving forward with a proposal to revoke part of California’s authority to set its own automobile gas mileage standards, a government official said Thursday, in another confrontation with a state that has repeatedly challenged environmental rollbacks. The Environmental Protection Agency was preparing paperwork for the White House that would set a

If you’re Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, you take the prize for best-dressed fall couple, of course. The stars from the U.S. women’s soccer team and the WNBA are featured in the October issue of InStyle, wearing coordinating looks and pairs of pants as big as our love for this power couple. Rapinoe and Bird

Image copyright Allan family Image caption Amy Allan died at Great Ormond Street Hospital last year The coroner looking into the death of Scottish teenager Amy Allan has found significant failings in her care by Great Ormond Street Hospital. Amy, from Dalry in North Ayrshire, was 14 when she died in September last year following

The financial industry has a big problem: Some of its “experts” aren’t real. Last month, we reported that Patricia Russell, the owner of a personal finance website who claimed to be a certified financial planner and has been quoted across the internet, was a fake. Not only were her credentials fabricated, but so was her