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Children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for national action to tackle ‘reading crisis’

Children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce calls for national action to tackle ‘reading crisis’

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has called for national action to tackle the children’s “reading crisis”, as new research suggests families are increasingly struggling to make reading part of daily life. Speaking at London’s Royal Institution, at an event hosted by children’s reading charity BookTrust, he argued that evidence shows there is an appetite to read among children, but families need more support. He claimed the UK is facing a serious crisis in children’s development, connecting this to wider pressures including poverty, housing insecurity, isolation and the erosion of local services such as libraries and youth provision. Part of this challenge is that too many children are starting school without consistently experiencing the warmth of shared stories and books, he said. To coincide with his speech, BookTrust has shared the results of its latest family survey, which found that between 2021 and …

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi transferred to a Tehran hospital, her foundation says : NPR

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi transferred to a Tehran hospital, her foundation says : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi in a hospital in Tehran, Iran on May 10, 2026. Narges Foundation Archive/via AP hide caption toggle caption Narges Foundation Archive/via AP BEIRUT — Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation said Sunday. Her transfer comes after days of pleading by her family and others who described her condition as critical. Her foundation said she has been granted a prison sentence suspension on bail. It was not clear for how long her sentence is suspended, the foundation said. Mohammadi had been imprisoned since December in Zanjan prison. She lost consciousness twice and was transferred to a local hospital on May 1. A statement from her foundation, shared with The Associated Press, said the suspended sentence is not enough and that Mohammadi needs “permanent, specialized care.” The statement added that “we must ensure she never returns to prison to face the 18 years remaining on her sentence. Now is the time to …

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised

Published by Sam Flores

Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to hospital after what her foundation described as a severe deterioration in her health. She reportedly fainted twice on Friday. The incident follows a suspected heart attack in late March, raising growing concern among her supporters over her worsening condition. Keywords for this article Source link

Nobel laureate Mohammadi’s life in Iran’s hands, Nobel committee chief says

Nobel laureate Mohammadi’s life in Iran’s hands, Nobel committee chief says

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APPEAL TO IRANIAN AUTHORITIES Iranian authorities must release Mohammadi to her dedicated medical team so she can urgently receive treatment as her life is at risk, said Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Nobel Peace Prize. She “is imprisoned solely for her peaceful human rights work. Her life is now in the hands of the Iranian authorities,” he told Reuters on Saturday. Mohammadi was sentenced to a new prison term of seven-and-a-half years, the foundation said in February, weeks before the US and Israel launched their war against Iran. The Nobel committee at the time called on Tehran to free her immediately. She was arrested in December after denouncing the death of a lawyer, Khosrow Alikordi; prosecutor Hasan Hematifar told reporters then she had made provocative remarks at Alikordi’s memorial ceremony. On Friday morning, Mohammadi fainted after days of dangerously high blood pressure and severe nausea, the foundation said. After multiple bouts of vomiting, she blacked out and was moved to the prison medical unit for emergency intravenous fluids. …

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following cardiac ‘crisis’

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following cardiac ‘crisis’

Published by Sam Flores

Detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been hospitalised in Iran, her supporters said, “following a catastrophic deterioration of her health”. Mohammadi, who won the peace prize in 2023 in recognition of more than two decades of rights campaigning, was arrested in December in Iran’s eastern city of Mashhad after speaking out against the country’s clerical authorities at a funeral ceremony. Read moreIran sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison Her supporters had been issuing warnings for months about her health, saying in late March that she had suffered a suspected heart attack but received inadequate medical treatment. In a statement posted by her foundation on Friday, they said she was “urgently transferred to a hospital in Zanjan today” after a rapid deterioration, “including two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis”. The statement said her family described the move as a “last-minute action” that could prove too late. In Oslo the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged the Iranian authorities “to immediately transfer Narges Mohammadi to …

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates | Human Rights News

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates | Human Rights News

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Mohammadi has lost consciousness twice and suffered a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation has announced. By Al Jazeera Staff and The Associated Press Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026 Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred from prison to a hospital due to a sharp decline in her health. Mohammadi had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation announced on Friday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “This transfer was done as an unavoidable necessity after prison doctors determined her condition could not be managed on-site, despite standing medical recommendations that she be treated by her specialized team in Tehran,” the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said. Earlier on Friday, Mohammadi had fainted twice in prison in Zanjan in northwestern Iran, according to the foundation. She was believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March, according to her lawyers, who visited her a few days after the incident. At the time, she appeared pale, underweight and needed …

Iran’s Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi May Have Had a Heart Attack

Iran’s Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi May Have Had a Heart Attack

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BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi may have suffered a heart attack, one of her lawyers said Tuesday. Two of Mohammadi’s lawyers and her sister visited her in Zanjan Prison in northwestern Iran on Sunday, her French lawyer, Chirinne Ardakani, told The Associated Press after being briefed by the two Iranian lawyers who went to the prison. “When my colleagues saw her, they were shocked because she was very pale and had lost a lot of weight, and she was not alone but aided by a nurse,” Ardakani said. She added that, according to Mohammadi, her fellow inmates told her that on March 24 she was unconscious for over an hour. Upon later examination at the prison’s clinic, a doctor told her that she probably had had a heart attack. “She said she has since been having chest pain more than once a day and she has breathing difficulties and that she is in a very bad state,” Ardakani said. She said Mohammadi has been denied transfer to the hospital …

Nobel laureate says he’ll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

Nobel laureate says he’ll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

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Ryan Wills for New Scientist; Alamy John Martinis is a hardware guy. He prefers the nitty-gritty of doing physics in the lab over the idealised world of textbooks. But you couldn’t write the quantum computing history books without him: he was central to two of the most pivotal moments in the field. And he is hard at work chasing the next one. It started in the 1980s, when Martinis and his colleagues ran a series of experiments to probe the edges of what was known about quantum effects – for this work, he won a Nobel prize last year. Back when he was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, we knew that subatomic particles were subject to quantum effects, but the question was whether the world of quantum mechanics could extend to larger scales. Martinis and his colleagues built and studied circuits made from a mix of superconductors and insulators where, it turned out, many charged particles within the circuit behaved as if they were a single quantum particle. This was macroscopic …