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BBCLeanne Simcoe from the charity Little Stars says family referrals have increasedCharities in Shropshire are urgently calling for benefit reforms, warning that working families could face a “dreadful” winter as food and energy bills continue to surge.Over the past week, the BBC has visited the county to speak with organisations working to reduce rural poverty and deprivation. Their message is clear: the cost of living crisis is deepening, and many families are struggling to stay afloat.Shropshire Council said it offered a range of support to help residents cope with rising bills and the ongoing cost of living crisis.Recent data from…

Apple / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysMacOS Spotlight now allows you to do much more.You can quickly send emails and messages without opening the apps.This feature is built in and free to use.So far, I think the MacOS Tahoe upgrade is hands down the best update from Apple that I can remember. It’s so good, it’s even changed my mind about using widgets. Not only is the Liquid Glass UI supremely elegant, but the Spotlight tool is finally up to the task of modern usage.Case in point, the ability to send…

Australia has selected Gabrielle Brady’s Mongolian-language documentary The Wolves Always Come at Night as its submission for the best international feature category at the 2026 Academy Awards. Brady’s film will also run for consideration in the best documentary feature category. Blending documentary and fiction, the film tells the story of Mongolian herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg who make the difficult decision to leave their homelands after the arrival of a powerful and destructive sandstorm, a situation made worse by the climate crisis. The Wolves Always Come premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival in the Platform Prize program,…

Alexa PhilippouSep 24, 2025, 01:57 AM ETCloseCovers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati EnquirerLAS VEGAS — Aces coach Becky Hammon said the physicality of her team’s semifinal series against the Indiana Fever has been “out of control” following Las Vegas’ 90-68 Game 2 victory to even the best-of-five series at 1-1.”I mean, you can bump and grab a wide receiver in the NFL for those first five yards, but you can…

By night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking TikTok and Facebook, which he uses to sell meteorites to the rest of the world.In this former French colonial garrison town, network signals come and go like the dusty wind. On a recent morning when the connection disappeared again and the Starlink at the local customs office was unavailable, he drove his silver Mitsubishi GLX to the town’s outskirts.Sitting cross-legged on a blue tarpaulin sheet under the shade of a leafless gum arabic tree,…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Campers belongings sit outside one of Camp Mystic’s cabins near the Guadalupe River, July 7, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, after a flash flood swept through the area. Eli Hartman/AP hide caption toggle caption Eli Hartman/AP Camp Mystic plans to reopen next summer near the site where 27 girls and counselors died in a July flood. The campers and counselors were swept to their deaths when fast-rising floodwaters of the Guadalupe River roared through the girls’ summer camp in a low-lying area known as flash flood alley. All told, the destructive flooding in Texas on the Fourth of July killed at…

Director Andy Muschietti’s two-film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel  IT racked up over $1 billion at the box office worldwide. Now Muschietti is back with a nine-episode prequel series for HBO, IT: Welcome to Derry, exploring the origins of Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård), the ancient evil that terrorized the fictional town every 27 years. And now we have an official trailer a month before the prequel’s October debut. (Some spoilers below for IT and IT: Chapter Two.) As previously reported, set in 1989,  IT essentially adapted half of King’s original novel, telling the story of a group of…

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its second Global hypertension report, showing that 1.4 billion people lived with hypertension in 2024, yet just over one in five have it under control either through medication or addressing modifiable health risks. The new report–released at an event co-hosted by WHO, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Resolve to Save Lives during the 80th United Nations General Assembly–also reveals that only 28% of low-income countries report that all WHO-recommended hypertension medicines are generally available in pharmacies or primary care facilities. Hypertension is a leading cause of heart attack, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and dementia. It…

Jimmy Kimmel never thought he’d be here. But Kimmel has the skill to rise to this moment, at a jarring time in this country’s history as freedoms are under attack and democracy hangs on just by a thread. On Tuesday’s return of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” we were reminded of that. Kimmel struck the perfect tone, acknowledging the gravity of what had just happened, telling his audience that both sides of the aisle should cherish and celebrate free speech — and then not pulling any punches in joking about what Donald Trump has been up to over the last few days.…