News Daily: Medicines shortage, Prince Philip crash and Bercow peerage

News Daily: Medicines shortage, Prince Philip crash and Bercow peerage

  'Unconscious' stockpilingMany common medicines are becoming hard to get hold of, leaving patients complaining of delays. Widely-used painkillers, anti-depressants and blood pressure drugs are among 80 on the "shortage of supply" list for England - up from 45 in October - and pharmacists say they're having to pay "vastly increased" prices for them. Some are sending patients back to their GPs to ask for a different medicine or dosage - others are giving patients some of their prescription and sending them away with an IOU note for the rest. ...

Kenya attack: Who are the Nairobi victims?

Kenya attack: Who are the Nairobi victims?

At least 21 people are known to have died when Islamist al-Shabab militants stormed a luxury hotel compound in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. A 19-hour siege of the DusitD2 hotel and business complex on Tuesday ended with five attackers "eliminated", President Uhuru Kenyatta said. ...

Migrant caravan: Hundreds of Hondurans set off on new trek

Migrant caravan: Hundreds of Hondurans set off on new trek

Hundreds of Hondurans have set off on a new migrant caravan towards the United States. ...

Sturgeon refers herself to standards panel over Salmond caseAlps snow: Avalanche kills three skiers near Lech, Austria

Sturgeon refers herself to standards panel over Salmond caseAlps snow: Avalanche kills three skiers near Lech, Austria

  Three men have been killed in an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Lech am Arlberg, local police say. ...

Married In The Fifth Grade In Yemen, UNICEF

Married In The Fifth Grade In Yemen, UNICEF

When 15-year-old Sabrin was a fifth grader, her father accepted $900 in dowry money from a man who wanted to marry her. © UNICEF ...

Universal credit: Single mums win High Court battle

Universal credit: Single mums win High Court battle

Four working single mothers have won a High Court challenge over the government's universal credit scheme. ...

UAE and Oman to be ‘fastest growing economies in GCC’

UAE and Oman to be ‘fastest growing economies in GCC’

  The UAE and Oman will be the Gulf region’s fastest growing economies in 2019, according to a new report by the Institute of International Finance (IIF). ...

GCC fixed income market takes a breather in 2018

GCC fixed income market takes a breather in 2018

  KUWAIT: After three consecutive years of growth and record issuances in 2017, the GCC fixed income primary market took a breather, as bonds and sukuk issuances declined 14.1 percent in 2018 to reach $105.9 billion.  ...

Report: US 2018 CO2 emissions saw biggest spike in years

Report: US 2018 CO2 emissions saw biggest spike in years

A new report has found that US carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4% in 2018 after three years of decline. ...

Brexit, elections and RHI: Key dates for the 2019 diary.

Brexit, elections and RHI: Key dates for the 2019 diary.

If you thought 2018 was a year that packed plenty of political punches, brace for impact because 2019 isn't likely to be much calmer.Oh, and it's not just because of Brexit either. ...

NHS 10-year plan: Labour attacks Theresa May's proposals.

NHS 10-year plan: Labour attacks Theresa May's proposals.

Theresa May's 10-year plan for the NHS lacks both the staffing and funding to succeed, Labour has said. ...