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A MAN was left fighting for his life in hospital after catching a rare bug from his pet Chihuahua. The 71-year-old from La Gomera in the Canary Islands went to the emergency department after feeling short of breath and coughing up yellowish phlegm for two days. 2Scans showed ‘opacity’ in the 71-year-old’s lungs and doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and septic shockCredit: www.sciencedirect.com 2Septic shock is a severe form of sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection Prior to that, he’d suffered sudden bouts of diarrhoea, weakness and chills for five days, according to doctors at the Hospital Nuestra Señora…

A BRITISH grandad who faced being thrown into a Dubai jail after being accused of trespass has been released. Ian Mackellar, 75, was arrested while visiting his daughter and young grandchild over Christmas shortly after they had moved there. 2Ian Mackellar has been freed after being arrested in DubaiCredit: SWNS 2He is due to return to Scotland The pensioner, from near Aberdeen, Scotland, was accused of trespass and faced several years in prison and a travel ban. Ian and his wife had flown to Dubai to visit their daughter, who had asked her neighbour to be mindful of noise at their New Year’s Eve…

ROAD safety campaigners have issued warnings over the Apple’s new Vision Pro headsets being used while driving. Apple’s $3,500 (£2,800) Vision Pro hit the shelves on Friday, but have already been the subject of viral videos showing them in scenes Apple has explicitly advised against. 1It is unknown where he was driving or what police department pulled him overCredit: Twitter One video that amassed massive viewer numbers over the weekend shows a man, called Dante, using the virtual reality (VR) goggles while driving on a motorway. In the video, the man’s eyes are completely covered by the headset while driving…

THREE women are known to have died and two more diagnosed with deadly cervical cancer after NHS blunders meant thousands weren’t invited for life-saving smear tests. It’s now emerged that up to 150,000 women may have have been wrongly excluded from the cervical cancer screening programme. 1Cervical cancer is a cancer that’s found anywhere in the cervix, which is the opening between the vagina and womb The NHS sends letter invites for cervix health checks to people aged 25 to 64 to identify any changes that could develop into cancer. A coding error dating back nearly 30 years to 1997…

A RUSSIAN colonel has been shot in the head by his own side as he was gunned down by troops working for one of Putin’s warlords. Lieutenant Colonel Albert Atmurzaev, 39, was killed by national guards loyal to close Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov, the warlord leader of Chechnya, according to reports. 1Lieutenant Colonel Albert Atmurzaev was killed by Russian soldiers The shooting was in Grozny, capital of Chechnya, where Kadyrov is reported to be gathering a vast “private army” ostensibly for use supporting the dictator in the war in Ukraine.  Reports say that Atmurzaev – a Russian interior ministry…

BRITS have been warned they have until the end of next week to claim a free TV box replacement voucher after major changes saw more than a dozen channels disappear. The BBC and ITV shutdown their remaining standard definition (SD) channels on satellite at the beginning on January. 1Viewers were left with a warning like this until screens went blank on January 8Credit: X / Twitter It’s all part of a huge plan to upgrade stations so they’re in modern high definition (HD) instead. However, this meant that anyone with an older box may have lost access to several channels…

A MUM who was called “paranoid” and brushed off by doctors now faces an agonising wait to see if her little girl’s tumour is deadly. Clare Maw, 42, said it took a year of going “backwards and forwards” visiting GPs until anyone looked into her daughter’s case. 5Evie was healthy before her cancer diagnosisCredit: Jam Press/Clare Maw 5The little girl has been left with potentially life-long disabilities because of her late diagnosis, her mum claimsCredit: Jam Press/Clare Maw Meanwhile, she believed daughter Evie’s health continued to deteriorate, and the once-healthy child was eventually handed a terrifying diagnosis – a brain…

IT was 4.17am and snowing outside when wedding photographer Mehmet Kaya was woken by his mother’s screams. Their apartment building was violently shaking as one of history’s most devastating earthquakes struck Turkey. 7A Red Crescent grant has allowed Demet Aslan to get her makeshift flower shop up and running and to restart her lifeCredit: Chris Eades – Commissioned by The Sun 7Mehmet Kaya is also beginning to rebuild his life thanks to Sun readers’ generous donationsCredit: Chis Eades – Commissioned by The Sun In seconds, Mehmet, 24, his parents, two sisters and a niece were engulfed by falling masonry and…

NASA’s stricken Mars helicopter has been spotted in its final resting place among the dunes. But can you make it out? 4Can you spot Ingenuity?Credit: SWNS 4Nasa’s helicopter performed 72 flights during its time on MarsCredit: SWNS To find out if you’re correct, scroll to the bottom for the answer. The lonely sight was captured by its companion, the Perseverance Mars Rover, on Sunday (February 4). The historic journey of Ingenuity, the first aircraft on another planet, has come to endBill NelsonNasa Administrator A stark picture shows Ingenuity gathering dust after suffering irreparable damage last month. Perseverance captured the scene…

MORE than a quarter of a century after she first had measles – one of the most infectious diseases in the world – Stephanie Peters died from it. She was 27, and the disease had already robbed her of her ability to see, walk, talk and feed herself. 5Gail Peters with a photo of her daughter StephanieCredit: Paul Tonge 5Chatty child Stephanie aged six in 1991Credit: Paul Tonge Today, her mum Gail is urging parents to look at photos of her daughter, to read her story, and to ­vaccinate their children to spare themselves or another family the agony hers…