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Dubbed Zara's little sister, Lefties is the latest offering from Inditex, the hugely successful Spanish retailer behind not just Zara, but Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius, Bershka, Oysho and Pull & Bear.

Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes

An anonymous reader shares a report from The Conversation, written by Hatim Sharif, a civil and environmental engineer who has "spent more than two decades staring at maps" and spatial data. Sharif finds one connection especially fascinating: the link between spatial reasoning and why taxi drivers seem to have lower rates of Alzheimer's. From the report: Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer's disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S. [...] Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer's, compared with 1 in 60 people overall. This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer's was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn't seem to experience a similar advantage. Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer's risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It's one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer's damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss. In one landmark 2000 study, neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as "The Knowledge" that takes three to four years. The researchers found that London taxi drivers had measurably more gray matter in the posterior hippocampus, a brain area tied to storing large-scale spatial maps. That volume tracked with experience: The longer someone had driven, the larger that part of the brain. The change was built through practice, not inherited. While people who are good at navigation might gravitate to this kind of job, the job itself does have an impact on the brain. Together, these two studies make a coherent case: Work that intensively exercises the hippocampus may reshape it, and that reshaping may protect against one of the most feared diseases of aging.

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The UKHSA has issued an amber heat health alert for Essex that comes into effect today, as temperatures are forecast to climb as high as 36C this week.

The UKHSA has issued an amber heat health alert for Essex that comes into effect today, as temperatures are forecast to climb as high as 36C this week.

Children of all ages can receive a free breakfast from selected locations until school restarts in September

H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year

Elizabeth McDonald, known as Betty, was born on 5 August 1926

A Halstead man who was caught doing 100mph on the A120 and admitted he was going “a bit fast” has kept his licence.

Tallulah's father Bruce Willis was nowhere to be found in pictures posted to social media from the wedding, leading one to wonder, did he attend the nuptials?

'No, I got-I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,' he said, the reporter noting he made a 'little laugh.'

The billionaire businesswoman, 72, posed alongside her partner of 40 years at her event at Navy Pier in Chicago.

I'm 83 and have had gastritis for years, I've had pernicious anaemia for ten years and read that stomach cancer risk is higher with this. Should I have a scan or MRI?

The 400-tonne warship HMS Tiger was on a night exercise in April 1908, when she took a wrong turn into the path of giant British 10,000-ton cruiser HMS Berwick.

EDEN: As the co-creator and presenter of Most Haunted, Yvette Fielding no doubt thought it was wonderful publicity when she discovered her home was preyed upon by spirits from the past...

Guests at Tallulah Willis' wedding have shared photos of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis' youngest daughter's 'beautiful' nuptials on Saturday.

Media regulator Ofcom said the announcement during The Barry Marsh Show on May 19 was a 'significant inaccuracy' on a matter of 'very high public interest'.

When I look out of the window of my farmhouse in Wiltshire, all I can see is a giant biscuit-coloured dustbowl. In a quarter of a century of working this land, I've never known conditions like it.

The actor's family announced on Monday that he died at his home in Central Point, Oregon , on August 3. His wife of 40 years, scientist Carol Rosin, was by his side.