Health

Britain and Ireland’s wildflowers

The Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre is opening entries for its Wildflower Photographer of the Year 2026 competition. Photos from last year’s contest will be on display at Canary Wharf, London, during CWG’s Nature Week, from 13 July

David Gingell’s recipe for roast chicken with braised peas and lettuce

Roast chicken the Cornish way (with a splash of cider), for a simple, lighter Sunday lunch

Hantavirus: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?

Up to 150 passengers and crew from hantavirus-hit MV Hondius start flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands

Dozens of people from cruise ship struck by hantavirus leave Tenerife

Britons among passengers and crew taken off vessel and put on flights to 10 countries as part of two-day operation

British paratroopers land on Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case

Soldiers dropped oxygen supplies and medical aid to Britain’s most remote overseas territory

Americans onboard hantavirus cruise ship to be repatriated to US

The 17 passengers are set to be transferred to a special quarantine center in Nebraska to ‘assess them for risk’

Passengers start to disembark cruise ship stricken by hantavirus

Updated on: May 10, 2026 / 11:32 AM EDT / CBS News

‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act

Mental illness is pregnancy’s No 1 complication. It’s time to support those who suffer from it

Integrated mental healthcare for maternity services, more perinatal psychiatrists and public awareness of the problem could deliver meaningful change

Pirouetting and gaping: mysterious whale behaviour documented as humpback migration begins

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers studying rare humpback ‘jaw-gaping’ believe the move could be a social display

My mother stole these plush house slippers from me

Brunch’s bestselling slippers feel like a pair you’d receive at a fancy hotel. I asked my mom how they’ve held up the past few months since they became hers

Motherless Daughters: Coming Together

On a mountaintop in Northern California, a group of women met for the first time. They call themselves "motherless daughters." These women were all age 21 or younger when their moms died – many from illnesses like cancer, some more suddenly – and might find their life stories divided into a "before" and an "after."