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Weight loss injections could help prevent cancer beyond helping people slim down, new research suggests.The study said that there were similar rates of obesity-related cancer among patients treated with the injections and those given weight loss, or bariatric, surgery. It also found weight loss jabs, officially GLP-1 receptor agonists, could almost halve the risk of related cancers – in addition to the expected health benefits from losing weight.Dr Yael Wolff Sagy, the study’s co-lead author from Clalit Health Services in Tel-Aviv, Israel, said a “direct effect” of the injections was that they were found “to be 41% more effective at…

Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group are to unveil a merger of their business communications and IT operations in a bid to create a £3bn telecoms powerhouse.Sky News has learnt that the two companies will announce later on Monday that they are to combine to form a company with annual revenues of about £1.4bn. Virgin Media O2 will own 70% of the new business, while Daisy Group will own 30%.The tie-up will create a stronger challenger to BT Group, Britain’s biggest provider of IT and telecoms services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).The new VMO2-Daisy business will have roughly 700,000…

A lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a court there was “mutual” domestic violence between him and his ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura.Marc Agnifilo made the claim as he outlined some of the music star’s defence case ahead of the full opening of his trial next week. Combs has pleaded not guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking and two counts oftransportation for prostitution. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.Ms Ventura is expected to testify as a star witness for the prosecution during the trial in New York. The final stage of…

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit.Scientists haven’t yet pinpointed its location but one organisation has predicted it had re-entered over southern England early on Saturday morning. It is not immediately known how much of the rocket survived the blazing hot descent, with scientists suggesting it had burned up or broken up at the last minute, sometime between around 7am and 8.30am.Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 and been set to land on Venus but it became trapped in orbit after a stage of the mission failed.Scientists tracking the lander as…

Driving south from Los Angeles along the coast, you can’t miss the San Pedro port complex. Dozens of red cranes pop up from behind the freeway.The sound of industry whirs as containers are unloaded from hulking ocean liners on to waiting lorries and freight trains that seem to never end. The port of Long Beach combines with the port of Los Angeles to make the busiest port in the western hemisphere. Image: The San Pedro port complex The colourful metal containers contain anything and everything, from clothes and car parts to fridges and furniture. Around $300bn of cargo passes through…

He is the man behind the biggest-selling electronica record of all time, but the success of Moby’s album Play came with some unwanted side effects.His fifth record, the album charted at 33 upon its release in the UK in May 1999, and fell out of the Top 40 after just a week. But despite the lacklustre initial response, Play started to pick up steam, slowly climbing the chart until it reached number one in April 2000. It stayed there for five weeks and remained in the Top 40 until March 2001, re-entering the Top 100 several times over the next…

It’s not often there are security guards on the door and hundreds queuing to get into a local council planning meeting – but such is the strength of feeling here in North Devon, that was exactly the case this week.After months of campaigns, site visits, ecological and economical reports, North Devon Council was set to vote on a hugely controversial plan to run major electrical cables from a new offshore wind farm to Saunton Sands and under the dunes around it. A UNESCO biosphere and one of the UK’s top tourist beaches, there has been no shortage of local opposition…

Monzo, the digital bank which counts one in five British adults among its customers, is closing in on the appointment of investment bankers to spearhead a stock market listing valuing it at more than £6bn.Sky News has learnt that Monzo is working with Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street giant, on a series of meetings with potential investors ahead of an initial public offering which could take place as early as the first half next year. People close to the company said this weekend that bankers would be formally hired to work on the listing within months, with Morgan Stanley now…

An ex-model has tearfully told a court that being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein when she was 16 was the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point.Warning: This article contains references to sexual assault Kaja Sokola told the film producer’s retrial that he ordered her to remove her blouse, put his hand in her underwear, and made her touch his genitals.She said he’d stared at her in the mirror with “black and scary” eyes and told her to stay quiet about the alleged assault in a Manhattan hotel in 2002.Ms Sokola told the New York court that Weinstein…

Why has there been such a flap about chlorinated chicken?In American abattoirs, it is standard practice designed to reduce levels of bacteria like salmonella and campylobacter – the leading source of foodborne illness in the US, as well as here in the UK. The chlorine wash itself is not the problem. Numerous studies have shown trace amounts of chlorine on meat pose no risk to health, and we consume far more in our tap water every day than we would get from eating it.Instead, the argument behind the ban on chlorination here in the UK and Europe is that it…