Improving early diagnosis is seen as crucial – currently just over half of cancers are diagnosed at stages one and two, which provides the best opportunity to treat the disease. The proportion has improved little in the past decade

After this latest deluge of details to drop in the last few days, Downing Street has sought to be on the front foot: volunteering on the record statements marking each new development, and now seeking to pre-empt a Conservative attempt to squeeze from ministers details of the vetting process prior …

Brown said he had shared with police a letter he had sent in September asking the cabinet secretary to "investigate the veracity of information contained in the Epstein papers regarding the sale of assets arising from the banking collapse and communications about them between Lord Mandelson and Mr Epstein"

Mountbatten-Windsor, also formerly known as the Duke of York, is expected to return to Windsor over the next few weeks to collect the remainder of his belongings but his permanent base is now officially in Norfolk

US president wages maximum pressure campaign on Cuba’s already faltering economy. Cubans are cooking on charcoal and facing worsening power blackouts after the US cut the island off of Venezuelan oil exports. US President Donald Trump promised Cuba will “fail” soon and threatened tariffs on any nations doing business with …

Gaddafi’s political team says masked men killed him at his home in Zintan in a ‘cowardly and treacherous assassination’. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most prominent son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed in Libya, according to officials and local media. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s lawyer, Khaled al-Zaidi, and …

Are we raising a generation that can’t comprehend simple sentences? We’re talking to educators with decades of experience and seeing why nobody is reading books any more. Is it fair to blame everything on technology? Are parents being present enough with their children, and what does that mean for our …

NewsFeed Red Cross worker urges more aid access, recounts time in Gaza “Israel, as the occupying power, has the obligation to ensure the needs of people are met in Gaza. ” As he prepared to leave Gaza, the Red Cross’s Patrick Griffiths is hopeful the Rafah crossing’s “opening” will give …

Walmart stock surged as a new CEO takes the helm and on news of a trade deal with India, a key supplier. Walmart has reached a $1 trillion market valuation, a first for the big-box retailer. The company’s shares hit a high on Tuesday morning trade as the stock continues …

Al-Shifa Hospital director says blocking medical evacuations through Rafah crossing could be ‘death sentence’ for many. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres again has called on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli authorities continue to block dozens of Palestinians from exiting the war-ravaged enclave …