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Denmark’s food agency has recalled three South Korean spicy instant ramen noodle products – warning consumers they are so hot they might cause “acute poisoning”.The Samyang Foods products being withdrawn are Samyang Buldak 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken and Hot Chicken Stew. The agency issued the warning on Tuesday and said the products were being recalled because the levels of total capsaicin in a single pack of all three noodle products “are so high that they pose a risk of the consumer developing acute poisoning”.”If you have the products, you should discard them or return…

As climate change pushes temperatures up, invasive mosquitoes are embedding into European countries – bringing dengue fever with them. In 2023, there were 130 locally acquired cases of dengue reported in the EU, compared to 71 in 2022, according to an update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The rise is even more stark when you look back further – between 2010 and 2021, there were 73 cases across the whole period.”Climate change is creating more favourable conditions for invasive mosquitoes to spread into previously unaffected areas and infect more people with diseases such as dengue,” ECDC…

French singer-songwriter Francoise Hardy, who inspired Bob Dylan and Sir Mick Jagger, has died at the age of 80.The musician was a fixture of pop culture in the 1960s and also modelled for designer brands including Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne.Her death was announced by her son Thomas Dutronc, who she shared with ex-husband and French music star Jacques Dutronc. Image: Hardy arrives at London Airport in 1966. Pic: AP Sharing an image on Instagram of himself as a baby being held by his mother, he wrote in French: “Maman est partie…” which translates as “Mum is gone”.Hardy first…

Elon Musk has moved to drop a lawsuit he filed against ChatGPT maker Open AI and learned he is facing a fresh investor claim relating to his sale of Tesla shares.The tech billionaire, who had launched his complaint early this year, looked to drop the action just 24 hours before a San Francisco judge was to hear a bid by Open AI to have the case thrown out. He had accused the firm, which he co-founded, and its chief executive Sam Altman of abandoning its original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.Money…

After a very strong start to 2024, during which the UK economy achieved its strongest growth for two years, things stalled again in April.That the economy flatlined during April was no surprise, though, given a couple of factors. One was the early timing of Easter, which will have led some consumer spending that would normally have taken place in April to be brought forward to March.Money latest:The most expensive place to buy a seaside home in the UKThe other, more pertinent factor, was the weather. The Office for National Statistics notes in its release that rainfall during April was 155%…

The UK economy flatlined in April, according to early official figures that have been seized on by the government’s critics as evidence the Conservatives’ plan is not working.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there was zero growth in April compared to the 0.4% figure recorded during March. A Reuters news agency poll of economists had predicted the 0% performance given earlier evidence that wet weather had knocked retail sales and construction output particularly hard.The GDP (gross domestic product) report from the ONS – the last to be released ahead of the election – showed UK overall rainfall at 155%…

Researchers have found the route of one of Europe’s busiest winter getaways – the annual migration of millions of insects heading south through a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees.Using video cameras and butterfly nets, researchers from the University of Exeter recorded an estimated 17 million flies, wasps, butterflies and dragonflies pouring through a single 30-metre-wide pass between two peaks on the border of France and Spain each autumn. “To see so many insects all moving purposefully in the same direction at the same time is truly one of the great wonders of nature,” said Dr Karl Wooton, from Exeter’s…

A British indie band formerly called Easy Life have changed their name to Hard Life after they said they were sued last year by the brand owners of the easyJet airline.Writing on Instagram, the Leicester group admitted the “last nine months have not been easy” but they have now released a new single, Tears. Part of the video was included in the social media post. Last October, the musicians said they were going to change their moniker.It came after they said they were sued by easyGroup because their name was too similar.In the lawsuit, it was pointed out the band…

Whether Conservatives judge the 2024 manifesto a success or not rather depends on their definition of success.For some, it will be enough that Rishi Sunak has not exploded his election campaign in quite the way Theresa May did with her pledge to impose extra taxes on people to pay for social care in her 2017 manifesto. Some will be pleased that, unlike Liz Truss, Mr Sunak has not sought to introduce unfunded tax cuts (even if there are a fair few question marks about how reliable all his revenue numbers are). And for those who crave a moderately sensible set…

Annabel Thomas left her job as a strategy consultant in London more than a decade ago to pursue her ambition to change the way the world thought about whisky. With women and sustainability at the forefront of her mind, she has gone on to create the UK’s first net-zero whiskey distillery – and has hired a female-led team to do it. It took four years of hard graft, fundraising and actually building to create the Nc’nean distillery in the Highlands, and then another three years to produce its first bottle.She was first inspired by her parent’s farm and dreamed of…