More or less protein? What to eat to get you through a heatwave

"There's no need for more protein in a heatwave," says Aisling Daly, senior lecturer in nutrition at Oxford Brookes University.

But if you fancy it, some of the most common proteins will need cooking (like meat, chicken and fish) and that can be off-putting in the heat. Even an outdoor BBQ can be too hot to handle.

At UN, Cuba rallies support against ‘ruthless’ US blockade

Diplomatic tensions between Washington and Havana have widened in recent months.

Cuba has denounced the “ruthless” US embargo against the island during a United Nations General Assembly debate.

“The government of the United States is carrying out against Cuba a multi-dimensional, non-conventional warfare that has already lasted for almost seven decades now and has become ever more cruel and more ruthless during the last seven months,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez told the UN on Tuesday, slamming the blockade’s “collective punishment” of the population.

New weight loss pill beats oral Ozempic in major trial

A new type of daily pill has proven more effective for weight loss and blood sugar control for people with type 2 diabetes than its currently available counterparts, according to a recent trial. The drug, known as orforglipron, could be a game-changer in the rapidly expanding oral weight-loss drug market.

Apple begins testing CXMT chips for devices sold in China, FT says

CANADA - 2026/05/23: In this photo illustration, the CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Childhood on hold: How Gaza’s children spend a summer without play

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – In a partially destroyed building in western Gaza City, Faten Nabhan sat, surrounded by her six school-age children, taking a brief rest after a morning spent filling water containers from the trucks that visit the camp.

Cannabis smuggler knows most of his drugs mules 'will get caught'

Suppliers are running industrial-sized operations in parts of the world where laws governing the cultivation of cannabis have been relaxed - including Thailand, Canada and parts of the US - and illegally importing multiple-kilogram loads to the UK for "huge profits".

Syria grapples with unrest as government faces old and new threats

Damascus was rocked on Tuesday by explosions during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, the first European Union leader to visit the country since forces led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa deposed Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.

Revolut Is Building An AI Brain For Banking, And It Could Change Finance Forever

As banks race to turn AI from isolated tools into enterprise-wide intelligence, Revolut's PRAGMA model offers a glimpse of where digital banking and financial services may be heading next.

Jaxon Popovic: Skateboarding's 10-year-old sensation has Olympics dreams

The 10-year-old skateboarder with an Olympic dream

‘Black Money for White Nights’ Review: A Cycle of Corruption Endangers a Marriage in a Bitter, Gripping Bulgarian Tragicomedy

How much dirty cash can pass through your hands before your soul is stained? Gosha (Ivan Savov) and Marina (Tanya Shahova), the struggling sixtysomething couple at the center of “Black Money for White Nights,” believe they’ve found the right balance: Professional bribery is the way of the world, as they see it, and they engage in just enough of it to keep their heads modestly above water. But when they karmically find themselves the victims of a financial scam, they haven’t a leg to stand on, either ethically or economically, and the axis of their lives is set askew; turns out you can’t play the corruption game only when it suits you. Bulgarian filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov aren’t unsympathetic to their flailing characters in this sharp, escalatingly sad black comedy, but they aren’t sparing either.