Hope Solo announces her beloved Doberman Conan has died of blood loss after being shot

Hope Solo announces her beloved Doberman Conan has died of blood loss after being shot Olympic soccer star Hope Solo revealed on social media that one of her Dobermans was shot on Wednesday night Conan, who she called the ‘best of the bunch’ was in critical condition at a local veterinary hospital in North Carolina … Read more

Heartbreak and hope in a bank’s Covid hotline call centre

Normally, Mark spends his working hours sat among hundreds of colleagues in Santander’s busy Glasgow office.  But, since lockdown started, he has instead been fielding calls from the bank’s customers at his home, in a makeshift, one-man call centre. The banking giant is receiving an unprecedented number of calls from customers worried about their finances. … Read more

Can hope and happiness cure the incurable?

SCIENCE CURED    by Jeffrey Rediger (Penguin £16.99, 400 pp) When Jeffrey Rediger, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, began writing this compelling book about illness and wellness, he can hardly have imagined that it would have been published in the middle of a catastrophic pandemic. Rediger offers many clinically documented examples of people stricken with … Read more

Mena Suvari and husband Michael Hope load up some boxes at the UPS Store in West Hollywood

Mena Suvari and husband Michael Hope load up some boxes at the UPS Store in West Hollywood By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 07:51 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 18:58 BST, 7 May 2020 Mena Suvari and her husband Michael hope were spotted loading some boxes into their car on Wednesday. The 41-year-old American … Read more

Remdesivir trial data ‘offers hope,’ says Gilead CEO

On the heels of an early announcement that coronavirus patients given Gilead’s Ebola drug remdesivir fared better than those who didn’t get the treatment, the company’s CEO, Daniel O’Day, deemed the results a cause for ‘hope at a time when it is badly needed,’ in an open letter obtained by Fox News.   ‘Positive data’ from … Read more

Donald Trump ends 32-day lockdown by flying to Camp David with officials including Hope Hicks

Donald Trump left the White House late Friday afternoon, ending a 32-day lockdown by boarding Marine One to Camp David for a weekend with officials – and promising to socially distance when he is there. The president took with him a group of senior officials including Hope Hicks, who was seen for the first time since … Read more

Daniel Hope review: New album Belle Epoque ‘will bring rich rewards to the curious’

Violinist Daniel Hope’s Belle Epoque album is full of beautiful music from the socially turbulent period and will bring rich rewards to the curious By David Mellor for Event Published: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 00:00 BST, 25 April 2020 Daniel Hope                        … Read more

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The recovery that followed The Great Depression should give us hope

Even today, almost a century on, the shadow of the Great Depression hangs heavy.  To most of us, the very phrase conjures up images of the winding dole queues, haggard faces and starving children that we associate with the 1930s. And, of course, we all know how that particular story ended. The crowds in Berlin, … Read more

New hope for stroke patients as scientists find way to restore mobility and touch in rats

New hope for stroke patients as scientists find way to restore mobility and touch using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged rat brain Experts transplanted reprogrammed stem cells into the cerebral cortex of rats They found that the new cells recreate lost nerve connections in the brain In six months, the procedure had … Read more