Day: June 2, 2017

    Two dads one of which is transgender - have spoken of their happiness as they prepare to welcome their first biological child. Trystan Reese, 34, and Biff Chaplow, from Portland, Oregon, are already parents to two adopted children but always longed for a baby of their own, the Daily Mail reports. After experiencing a miscarriage at six weeks last year, the couple were concerned that they had missed their ‘only’ chance but announced their good news on WNYC podcast, the Longest Shortest Time. Here, the dads revealed that following the miscarriage they initially wanted to wait a year before trying to conceive again, but they decided to try right away after taking the complications of restarting and stopping testosterone into consideration. Six months into trying, Trystan woke...

    Jeremy Corbyn Labour has unveiled a multibillion-pound industrial strategy to create a million new jobs, just as official data shows the country slipping into a Brexit slump. Vowing to end deindustrialisation, the party is pledging to pump investment into key sectors to fire the UK’s economy which is now the slowest-growing among advanced nations. The key initiative would also bid to ensure wealth and opportunity is spread across the country, amid official statistics revealing the UK to have the highest levels of regional inequality in Europe. Writing exclusively for The Independent, Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow Business Secretary, promised a Labour government would unleash the untapped potential of every part of the country. But the strategy also marks the start of an ...

    The US withdrawal from the Paris climate pact could ‘in a worst case scenario’ add a 0.3 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures over the 21st century, the UN said Friday. The head of the World Meteorological Organization’s atmospheric research and environment department, Deon Terblanche, underscored however that the likely impact of US President Donald Trump’s widely-condemned decision remains far from clear. We haven’t run new models overnight but the indications are that it could be in the worst case scenario in the order of 0.3 degrees Celsius, Terblanche told reporters in Geneva, referring to a possible rise over pre-industrial temperatures. That is the worst case scenario and this probably not what will happen, he added. Under the Paris deal agreed in 2015, world ...