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Getty Images It may be the start of a new week but you’ll still find plenty of Black Friday sales as the event goes online for Cyber Monday. It can be easy to get swept up in the shopping frenzy and end up out of pocket – instead of bagging a bargain. The vast majority…

Oura Smart rings have built-in sensors that monitor the wearer’s heart rate and other health issues Wearable tech – currently dominated by smart watches – is a multi-billion dollar industry with a sharp focus on health tracking. Many premium products claim to accurately track exercise routines, body temperature, heart rate, menstrual cycle and sleep patterns,…

BBC Josh Wiborg says the two weeks he had off work after his twin girls were born “isn’t enough time” A decade on from the introduction of a landmark scheme aimed at helping new parents share childcare, campaigners say shared parental leave is failing the working families it was designed to help. As the sole…

Joe Biden had repeatedly denied that he was going to pardon his son Hunter for his gun and tax evasion convictions or commute what was shaping up to be a substantive prison sentence. On the Sunday evening after Thanksgiving – at a moment when the American public’s attention was decidedly elsewhere – he announced he…

Getty Images Local councils have told the government its flagship plan to build 1.5m new homes in England over the next five years is “unrealistic” and “impossible to achieve”, the BBC can reveal. The vast majority of councils expressed concern about the plan in a consultation exercise carried out by Angela Rayner’s housing department earlier…

Reuters Kizza Besigye says he should not be tried in a military tribunal as he is a civilian The mysterious detention of Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye while on a visit to Kenya nearly two weeks ago has sparked widespread condemnation and fears of a clandestine exchange of intelligence between the two neighbours. Besigye’s allies…

Dangerous cladding will be fixed on buildings in England under new remediation plans, the government has pledged. Under the scheme, buildings higher than 18 metres – defined as high-rise – with dangerous cladding covered by government-funded schemes will be fixed by the end of 2029, ministers have said. By the same date, unsafe cladding in…

Lyse Doucet / BBC No one lives in the ghostly outskirts of El Geneina anymore. But its empty buildings still stand to tell their shocking stories, loudly and clearly. Charred homes and shops are peppered with bullet holes. Doors are wrecked. Metal shutters are smashed. Rusting Sudanese army tanks dot the streets. You can still…

Handout Tendai and Crispen welcomed their son, Zane, into the world in January When Tendai Chisambara was told she needed to undergo dialysis for her chronic kidney disease she was also told it would be practically impossible to conceive whilst receiving treatment. According to a recent study, in the six years between 2008 to 2014…

Operation Silhouette has made 36 arrests for serious and organised crime The police van we were following had taken an unexpected turn down a road of privately owned detached houses and bungalows. It didn’t feel like the kind of place where you would normally witness a dawn raid by the serious and organised crime unit.…