Health

Cocktail of the week: Pignut’s hedgerow highball – recipe

Thoroughly British, a bit rustic, and very much an early-autumn treat

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Weather tracker: Hurricanes in the Pacific, but none yet this season in the Atlantic

The current record for the latest Atlantic hurricane formation could be broken this year

What we know about the link between Nepal’s flash floods and our climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: The full scale of the disaster is still emerging, but as rescue efforts continue, scientists warn that a warming Himalayas could mean more deadly hazards

2 trapped workers rescued from Nepal hydropower tunnel 9 days after floods

September 4, 2026 / 1:57 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Helen Goh’s recipe for brown butter apple and blackberry bars

A bar for the bountiful season, with a rubbly oat crust, a soft fruit filling and a crisp topping

Two trapped workers rescued alive from a tunnel in Nepal, officials say

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel Friday as emergency teams continued an operation to reach others believed to be trapped inside, officials said.

New Zealand drugs regulator approves use of MDMA to treat severe PTSD

New Zealand decision follows Australian approval in 2023 of psychedelics to treat PTSD and treatment-resistant depression

Nepal-Tibet flash flood: Two workers pulled alive from hydropower tunnel nine days after disaster

Officials said the workers were safely rescued from tunnels that were at a depth of 170 metres

Experience: I didn't know I was pregnant until I gave birth

There'd been no morning sickness, cravings or tiredness. My mum didn’t believe I’d had a baby – even after seeing her on FaceTime

‘Everyone seems to have forgotten’: In Tibet, flood-hit families search for the missing and grapple with China’s silence

Relatives try to piece together information found online and from Nepal as Tibet advocates groups say information is suppressed in China

‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’

Prof Richard Bassed helped identify Boxing Day tsunami and victims of Australia’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires. ‘The randomness of this massive flood,’ he says. ‘That gets to you’