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Divert, turn back or fly around: what it’s like to be a pilot when missiles start crossing your flight path

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

‘The first thing is: Where are we? And how much fuel have we got and where do we need to go?’, Australian veteran pilot says

Keith Tonkin has flown a Boeing 747 towards airspace where missiles were being fired, and knows the pressure pilots have been under this week.

“You’re stuck in that airplane until you land safely,” the veteran Australian pilot says.

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Divert, turn back or fly around: what it’s like to be a pilot when missiles start crossing your flight path

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

‘The first thing is: Where are we? And how much fuel have we got and where do we need to go?’, Australian veteran pilot says

Keith Tonkin has flown a Boeing 747 towards airspace where missiles were being fired, and knows the pressure pilots have been under this week.

“You’re stuck in that airplane until you land safely,” the veteran Australian pilot says.

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Divert, turn back or fly around: what it’s like to be a pilot when missiles start crossing your flight path

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

‘The first thing is: Where are we? And how much fuel have we got and where do we need to go?’, Australian veteran pilot says

Keith Tonkin has flown a Boeing 747 towards airspace where missiles were being fired, and knows the pressure pilots have been under this week.

“You’re stuck in that airplane until you land safely,” the veteran Australian pilot says.

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Other countries are streets ahead of the UK on childhood obesity. Here’s what they’re doing differently | Devi Sridhar

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026 • 1 minute

There could be 227 million obese children worldwide by 2040. But as South Korea and Denmark have shown, it is possible to tackle this crisis

Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Despite health and fitness being more in vogue than ever, childhood obesity rates continue to rise. A new report from the World Obesity Federation warns that by 2040, the number of five- to 19-year-olds globally who are obese could increase from 180 million to 227 million. This is defined as a BMI of 30 or above – and is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a number of other serious health conditions.

These trends are also clear in the UK, where overweight and obesity rates continue to increase in children. In England, the National Child Measurement Programme (which takes height and weight data in year 6 for 94.1% of all eligible children) for 2024-25 found that 36.2% of children aged 10-11 had a high BMI (more than 25), with children in the most deprived areas twice as likely to be obese, and projections indicating that in some areas, the majority of children would be at an unhealthy weight by 2035. The UK as a whole has twice the number of overweight and obese children as either France or Italy.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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Other countries are streets ahead of the UK on childhood obesity. Here’s what they’re doing differently | Devi Sridhar

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026 • 1 minute

There could be 227 million obese children worldwide by 2040. But as South Korea and Denmark have shown, it is possible to tackle this crisis

Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Despite health and fitness being more in vogue than ever, childhood obesity rates continue to rise. A new report from the World Obesity Federation warns that by 2040, the number of five- to 19-year-olds globally who are obese could increase from 180 million to 227 million. This is defined as a BMI of 30 or above – and is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a number of other serious health conditions.

These trends are also clear in the UK, where overweight and obesity rates continue to increase in children. In England, the National Child Measurement Programme (which takes height and weight data in year 6 for 94.1% of all eligible children) for 2024-25 found that 36.2% of children aged 10-11 had a high BMI (more than 25), with children in the most deprived areas twice as likely to be obese, and projections indicating that in some areas, the majority of children would be at an unhealthy weight by 2035. The UK as a whole has twice the number of overweight and obese children as either France or Italy.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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Other countries are streets ahead of the UK on childhood obesity. Here’s what they’re doing differently | Devi Sridhar

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026 • 1 minute

There could be 227 million obese children worldwide by 2040. But as South Korea and Denmark have shown, it is possible to tackle this crisis

Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Despite health and fitness being more in vogue than ever, childhood obesity rates continue to rise. A new report from the World Obesity Federation warns that by 2040, the number of five- to 19-year-olds globally who are obese could increase from 180 million to 227 million. This is defined as a BMI of 30 or above – and is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a number of other serious health conditions.

These trends are also clear in the UK, where overweight and obesity rates continue to increase in children. In England, the National Child Measurement Programme (which takes height and weight data in year 6 for 94.1% of all eligible children) for 2024-25 found that 36.2% of children aged 10-11 had a high BMI (more than 25), with children in the most deprived areas twice as likely to be obese, and projections indicating that in some areas, the majority of children would be at an unhealthy weight by 2035. The UK as a whole has twice the number of overweight and obese children as either France or Italy.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files

There are many reasons why Amy Wallace wishes Virginia Roberts Giuffre was still alive. Some are personal. Some are practical. But at its heart pulse the reverberations of a child sex trafficking scandal that reaches into palaces and courtrooms across the globe.

Wallace is the now very visible ghostwriter behind the posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, by Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser.

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Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files

There are many reasons why Amy Wallace wishes Virginia Roberts Giuffre was still alive. Some are personal. Some are practical. But at its heart pulse the reverberations of a child sex trafficking scandal that reaches into palaces and courtrooms across the globe.

Wallace is the now very visible ghostwriter behind the posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, by Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser.

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Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 6 March 2026

Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files

There are many reasons why Amy Wallace wishes Virginia Roberts Giuffre was still alive. Some are personal. Some are practical. But at its heart pulse the reverberations of a child sex trafficking scandal that reaches into palaces and courtrooms across the globe.

Wallace is the now very visible ghostwriter behind the posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, by Jeffrey Epstein’s best-known accuser.