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Volunteer doctors at two Gaza hospitals said that a majority of their operations were on children hit by small pieces of shrapnel that leave barely discernible entry wounds but create extensive destruction inside the body. Amnesty International has said that the weapons appear designed to maximise casualties. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California, worked at the European hospital in south

Two beeps and a pause was the only warning Yusuf got. He turned around to face the noise, thinking it was one of his medical instruments, but instead was met with an explosion, throwing shrapnel into his leg. His patient fared much worse. “The patient lost consciousness; he started bleeding. His face, neck and lips were burned. He had knife-like cuts, as if he was hit by a rocket,” Yusuf, a doctor

Researchers have peered into the brains and bodies of living animals after discovering that a common food dye can make skin, muscle and connective tissues temporarily transparent. Applying the dye to the belly of a mouse made its liver, intestines and bladder clearly visible through the abdominal skin, while smearing it on the rodent’s scalp allowed scientists to see blood vessels in the animal’s

The late French actor Alain Delon’s wish that his pet dog be put down and buried with him has been rejected by his children after an outcry from animal rights campaigners. The actor, who died aged 88 on Sunday, had said he wished the animal, a 10-year-old Belgian malinois called Loubo, to be “put to sleep” and laid in his grave in the cemetery of his home in the village of Douchy in the Loiret. On

To say yes to that glass of wine or beer, or just get a juice? That’s the question many people face when they’re at after-work drinks, relaxing on a Friday night, or at the supermarket thinking about what to pick up for the weekend. I’m not here to opine on the philosophy of drinking, and how much you should drink is a question only you can answer. But it’s worth highlighting the updated advice fr

If you have noticed a sudden accumulation of wrinkles, aches and pains or a general sensation of having grown older almost overnight, there may be a scientific explanation. Research suggests that rather than being a slow and steady process, aging occurs in at least two accelerated bursts. The study, which tracked thousands of different molecules in people aged 25 to 75, detected two major waves of

PMI is betting on its IQOS smokeless devices as a next-generation tobacco product and has targeted politicians and doctors for endorsements. Photograph: Akio Kon/Bloomberg/Getty PMI is betting on its IQOS smokeless devices as a next-generation tobacco product and has targeted politicians and doctors for endorsements. Photograph: Akio Kon/Bloomberg/Getty

One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo. The estate was once a thriving community but is now at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic. Photograph: Justin McCurry/The Guardian One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo. The estate was once a thriving community but is now at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic. Phot

'Body parts in the streets' as Israel intensifies attacks in central Gaza – video report Israeli attacks in central Gaza killed scores of Palestinians, many of them civilians, on Saturday amid a special forces operation to free four hostages held there, causing a death toll that sparked international outrage. At least 274 Palestinians were killed and 698 wounded in Israeli strikes on the Nuseirat

For anyone with a love of early-2000s R&B and hip-hop, the line-up poster for this year’s Lovers & Friends festival in Las Vegas is a dreamland. Janet Jackson, Usher, Alicia Keys, Nelly, Ludacris, Gwen Stefani and Lil Wayne are among the big-name acts at the top of the poster with Craig David, Brandy, Monica, Eve and Sean Paul lower down. The fact it was planned as a one-day event meant it would b

Benjamin Netanyahu (left) has taken a close interest in the intelligence operations against the ICC and its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, sources say. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Benjamin Netanyahu (left) has taken a close interest in the intelligence operations against the ICC and its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, sources say. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty

Cohen (right) was described as acting as Netanyahu’s ‘unofficial messenger’ in the operation against Bensouda (centre). Composite: Guardian Design

‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023. Photograph: Madison Voelkel/BFA.com/Shutterstock ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023. Photograph: Madison Voelkel/BFA.com/Shutterstock

Buildings collapse, people rescued as powerful earthquake rocks Taiwan – video

“A sitting US rep in a secret town hall feels comfortable musing privately about genocide,” said a user on Twitter/X who circulated video of Walberg’s comments late Friday. A reply to that comment read: “Exactly what Jesus would do, right?” In a statement Sunday, Walberg argued that the media had misreported his comments and set him up to be misinterpreted. Yet he said he was unapologetic about hi

A boomerang word … Katsu has been added to the OED. Photograph: Saowaluck Voraprukpisut/Getty Images/iStockphoto

How will Russia remember Alexei Navalny? – video explainer

Leaked emails from the organisers of the prestigious Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy suggest several authors were excluded from shortlists last year after they were flagged for comments or works that could be viewed as sensitive in China. In January the Hugo awards published the statistics behind the 2023 awards, which were held as part of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon

Surveying the cinematic landscape this awards season, one question keeps coming to mind: where are all the white films for white people? That might seem an odd concern to have in 2024, when white people are well represented at every major awards ceremony and the cultural event of the last 12 months was Barbenheimer, a set-to between the greatest of the Great White Man biopics and a jubilant celebr

Aso also twice got her surname wrong – calling her Kamimura – and incorrectly suggested she was Japan’s first female foreign minister. In fact, she is the third, after Makiko Tanaka and Yoriko Kawaguchi, who were appointed during the administration of Junichiro Koizumi in the early 2000s. Kamikawa, who became one of five women appointed to prime minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet in September last y

Suggesting that the claim itself needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt, the US embassy conceded that the controversial recipe for a perfect cup of tea had “landed our special bond with the United Kingdom in hot water”. Writing on X, the embassy said because tea was “the elixir of camaraderie, a sacred bond that unites our nations, we cannot stand idly by as such an outrageous proposal threa

Babel, which won fiction book of the year at the British book awards in 2023, is a speculative fiction novel by Kuang, a Chinese-American author also known for her novel Yellowface. No reason was given for the exclusions, which were revealed only on 20 January when the Hugo awards published the full nomination statistics for last year’s prize. Certain titles were listed as having been given votes,