Global experts have called for PCOS to be renamed to PMOS. As someone who suffers from the condition, it will be interesting to see how the new name change impacts diagnosis – particularly as it’s thought up to 70% of affected individuals remain undiagnosed.

Women’s health is chronically underfunded, under-researched and most importantly, misunderstood.

I can count on both hands the number of times I have gone to a doctor to discuss a female-health-related issue and have been told to change my contraceptive pill.

The first signs of trouble for me were during my final year at university when my period stopped of its own accord for a whole year. I was going through some crappy, personal stuff at the time so I’d initially thought it was stress-induced.

I went to the doctor, who also thought it was down to stress, and said I should change my pill. It wasn’t until two or three other worrying symptoms began to appear – despite being on the pill – that I thought I should really get checked out again.

The diagnosis process took over two years and I had many different tests to work out what was happening. It was a long time to sit in my discomfort and imagine all of the worst-case scenarios. It had a profound impact on my state of mind and still does to this day.

The condition causes my hormones to fluctuate from month to month. I never know when my period is, and my weight fluctuates quite drastically (it can also make it hard for me to lose weight if I want to). It covers so many areas of my life and, over the years, has had a massive impact on my mental health.

I struggle with anxiety and anxiety-related depression, and I am convinced my PMOS struggles have been at least part of the cause of that.

It’s made me feel like less of a woman at times, and that’s been very hard for my brain to grapple with. What do you mean I don’t get a period regularly? What do you mean I grow excessive hair? What does this all mean for my future health?

My mood has been shaped so much by this – and it’s been a difficult road filled with so many unknowns.

In the medical journal The Lancet, a team of experts have called for a change to the condition’s name, arguing the existing acronym is “inaccurate” and may even lead to missed diagnoses.

In simple terms, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) should be renamed to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), they said.

This is important because it allows the name to cover more areas, not just assuming that every PMOS sufferer has ovarian cysts (which they don’t – I should know, I’m one of them).

Under the new name, PMOS is characterised by changes in hormones, with impacts on weight, metabolic health, mental health, skin, and the reproductive system. The name reflects the multi-system issue it is. Beforehand, the condition could be misdiagnosed because the term didn’t cover enough areas.

Dr Victoria Sephton, chief medical officer at Care Fertility, also notes the renaming will help “validate the experiences of patients who have historically felt dismissed or misunderstood”.

In theory, experts believe the name change should improve care and diagnosis. If so, this will be an incredibly positive change and should mean PMOS is taken far more seriously – and those women who remain undiagnosed get the answers they so desperately need.

For too long, women’s health has been pushed to the side. To see a condition that’s shaped my adult years be properly recognised through something as simple as a name change is cathartic – and I hope it will mean many more women can get the help they need to navigate what is a complex, multi-system issue, and get the support they need.

Eurovision’s director has said the event’s organisers are keeping a close eye on this year’s voting, after questions were raised about the 2025 Israeli delegation.

At last year’s Eurovision final, Israeli performer Yuval Raphael finished in second place overall, having come first among televoters.

Once the competition was over, several competing broadcasters voiced concerns about whether the voting system that was then in place, allowing viewers to vote for the same country as many as 20 times, “encouraged manipulation”.

Many competing countries also took issue with the fact that Israel’s government had paid for cross-platform advertising, encouraging international viewers to vote for its representative during last year’s final.

Ahead of this year’s event, major changes were made to the voting system, reducing the number of permitted votes from 20 to just 10, as well as introducing “enhanced technical safeguards” that would “detect and block coordinated or fraudulent voting activity”.

“Stronger limits on promotion” were also implemented to “curb disproportionate third-party influence, including government-backed campaigns”.

Over the weekend, it was revealed that Israel’s broadcaster had already been issued with a formal warning over a promotional video urging viewers to vote 10 times for the 2026 Israeli representative, Noam Bettan.

During a new interview with BBC News, Eurovision’s director Martin Green conceded that “some of the promotion by some of the broadcasters was a little disproportionate” last year, claiming that those who flout the newly-implemented rules would be subject to “further scrutiny”.

He also insisted we’re a “long way from” Israel’s representative being disqualified over any further breaches and that his team was overseeing this year’s voting “very, very carefully”.

“If there is a problem, we start a conversation and we try and resolve it amicably, without reaching for sanctions,” Green added.

“We hope, in a way, that you teach the world that you can solve [conflict] by being collegiate right now.”

Last week, a Eurovision spokesperson said: “On Friday 8 May it was brought to our attention that videos with an on-screen instruction to ‘vote 10 times for Israel’ had been published and released by the artist representing [Israel’s national broadcaster Kan].

“Within 20 minutes we had contacted the Kan delegation to ask them to immediately stop any distribution of the videos and remove them from any platforms where they had been published. They immediately acted to do this.”

A spokesperson for Kan subsequently told The Times Of Israel that they were “following all of the rules of the competition”.

“The voting instructions of the Eurovision Song Contest that cover promotion are predominantly directed at discouraging large scale funded third-party campaigns, and we are satisfied that this video did not form part of such a campaign,” Eurovision’s spokesperson continued.

“However, employing a direct call to action to vote 10 times for one artist or song is also not in line with our rules nor the spirit of the competition. The scale of our vote means that such activity cannot affect the overall result and 50% of all votes this year are supplied through professional juries.”

On Tuesday evening, Israel’s representative made it through the semi-final stage of the contest, and is due to perform again at the Eurovision final on Saturday night.

Two Doors Down is set to return for an eighth full-length season, three years on from the death of its co-creator Simon Carlyle.

Centring around a group of neighbours in the suburbs of Glasgow, Two Doors Down began airing in 2016, and was created by writing duo Simon Carlyle and Gregor Sharp.

Following Simon’s death in 2023, the show was rested, before returning to our screens for a Christmas special last year.

On Wednesday evening, the BBC announced that the sitcom will be back for a new run of episodes, which will reunite the entire cast.

In a statement, Gregor Sharp said: “It was a lot of fun putting the band back together for the Christmas episode last year, so I’m really excited to be coming back with some new tunes, which we hope will turn out just as special.

“The cast are the most talented group of performers you could wish for, and I can’t wait to get started.”

Fans can look forward to appearances from all of Two Doors Down’s main cast in the new episodes, including Arabella Weir, Doon Mackichan, Elaine C Smith, Jonathan Watson and Alex Norton.

A synopsis for the new season teases: “Series eight picks up exactly where the 2025 Christmas special left us. Beth and Eric are still clinging to the hope of a quiet life, but their best efforts are no match for the relentless chaos supplied by neighbours Colin, Cathy and Christine.

“Meanwhile, Michelle is preparing for the new arrival, while Gordon throws himself into further education. Alan and Ian return too, doing their level best to support their partners – with mixed results.”

Before that, though, the cast will also be performing a string of live shows at Glasgow’s Hydro Arena over the course of September and October.

The first seven seasons of Two Doors Down are now streaming on BBC iPlayer.

Even the biggest football-sceptics among us now have a reason to get excited about the upcoming World Cup.

The global tournament is due to take place across the United States, Canada and Mexico this summer, and will culminate in a final featuring a Super Bowl-esque Halftime Show, the first in Fifa’s history.

And just wait until you check out the line-up.

K-pop sensations BTS, chart-topping superstar Shakira and the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, were all unveiled as co-headliners of the World Cup Halftime Show on Thursday morning.

The show is curated by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and was announced in a social media post featuring characters from both The Muppets and Sesame Street (the first time the two former Jim Henson Company characters have shared the screen in decades, since the latter was bought by Disney in the early 2000s).

Watch the extremely cute video for yourself below:

In the lead-up to the announcement, Shakira teased last week that she had a new song to coincide with the World Cup, following the huge success of 2010’s Waka Waka (This Time For Africa).

The new track, Dai Dai, will serve as the official anthem of the World Cup, and will seemingly feature the singer Burna Boy.

Shakira previously co-headlined the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2020, where she shared the stage with Jennifer Lopez.

Fellow headliner Madonna is also a former Super Bowl performer, setting a new record for viewing figures with her halftime set in 2012 (though this record has since been bested by several other Super Bowl headliners).

The 2026 World Cup final is due to take place on Sunday 19 July.

Kemi Badenoch has just won over the support of none other than the controversial American rapper Nicki Minaj for her performance in the House of Commons.

The Conservative leader has been widely praised by Keir Starmer’s critics for demolishing the prime minister over ongoing speculation he could be ousted from office on Wednesday.

Speaking shortly after the King’s Speech – where the monarch lays out the government’s legislative plans for the upcoming parliamentary session – the leader of the opposition also took aim at health secretary Wes Streeting’s ambitions for office.

One particular clip of her attacks exceeded 1.8 million views.

In the viral video, Badenoch said: “Scrapping NHS England, something the prime minister announced 14 months ago – but I suppose the health secretary has been a it distracted lately hasn’t he?”

Looking straight at Streeting on the front bench, she said: “He’s chuntering now, why don’t you just do your job? Do your job!”

Badenoch added: “There’s no point him giving me dirty looks, we all know what he has been up to. We all know.”

Evidently that video made it across the pond as Minaj shared it on X, commenting: “The UK is truly one of a kind. They will portray her [Badenoch] in film & TV one day…just like they did with Margaret Thatcher.”

The rapper has drifted into right-wing politics over the last year and even met up with Donald Trump at the White House in February, describing herself as the US president’s “no.1 fan”.

Badenoch has also attracted the support of another divisive American rapper, Azealia Banks, since becoming Conservative leader.

In April, Banks wrote on social media: “Kemi Badenoch is fucking iconic. World leaders will respect her Professionalism alot more than goofball Nigel.

“Plus she’s not a Punk. Shes not running her mouthy and talking shit because she will really go to war with Putin and win.”

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I often think about how tough it must be to be a teenager right now. Between the pressures of school life and the inability to get away from it all thanks to the 24/7 nature of social media, it sounds pretty exhausting.

But what is it actually like? And what’s keeping the nation’s teenagers up at night? A 2025 survey by BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Bitesize shed some light.

The online poll of 2,000 kids aged 13-18 explored the issues shaping teenagers’ lives – from mental health and safety to the rise of AI.

Getting kids to open up about what’s worrying them can be like drawing blood from a stone for plenty of parents. But the survey offered some insights into what teens worry about most.

Over two-thirds (69%) of all participants reported feeling anxious at least some of the time, with pressure around exams and grades being the biggest worry.

Its survey of 1,000 15- to 18-year-olds taking GCSE or A-Levels found 63% said it was hard to cope in the lead-up to, and during, these exams. Of these, 13% had suicidal thoughts and 13% self-harmed. More than half (56%) had trouble sleeping.

Among those struggling, 61% experienced anxiety and 40% worsening mental health, while 30% skipped meals and one in four (26%) had panic attacks.

The research also found exams were more than twice as likely to have a significant negative impact on mental health than social media.

May – which is when school exam season starts for most – is the peak season for children to call Childline about exam stress. Between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026; the free, confidential service for kids delivered 1,679 counselling sessions where exam or revision stress was mentioned.

The majority of concerns about exam stress were from children aged 12-18 years old, however younger students are also impacted, with 11% of contacts coming from children aged 11 and under.

One young person, aged 16, said: “If I’m not revising for exams, I feel this panic in my chest, but the panic also stops me focusing on the revision when I try and do it.”

Another 16-year-old girl said they have plans for their future, but have completely lost motivation to revise. “I have no idea why, my friends are trying to help get me back on track but I’m so overwhelmed,” they said.

It found 65% of teens feel overwhelmed at least some of the time and almost three-quarters (74%) of girls feel anxious at least some of the time.

Another eye-opening finding was just how much time teens are spending on their phones: more than a third (38%) spend five hours or more a day, while one in 20 spend eight hours or more.

When they are online, more than half reported having seen sexist and racist content. Two in five (44%) said they have seen extremely violent content.

In real life, 44% worry about knife crime in their local area and almost one third (30%) of teenage girls have experienced sexual harassment in school.

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly popular among the younger generation, with almost half (47%) using it to help with homework or coursework.

This is rising year-on-year – the figure was 36% in 2024 and 29% in 2023.

Despite the challenges teens face today, nearly eight in 10 (79%) are feeling positive about their future.

Passengers hoping to bring their “smart bags”, which have chargers in them, might be disappointed: those “with non-removable batteries above 2.7Wh are not permitted onboard,” sites like Ryanair advise.

That’s because they contain lithium batteries, which power banks also have.

These can sometimes short-circuit and are generally not permitted in the hold as they can catch fire.

And on their site, Jet2 said that they ban “lithium-ion batteries, lithium metal batteries and power banks that don’t clearly state” an important rating.

Those that don’t include the “watt-hour rating or lithium metal content, or where the watt-hour rating cannot easily be otherwise ascertained, are forbidden”.

A watt-hour rating is usually shortened to Wh. Power banks should have a rating “not exceeding 160Wh, providing they are individually protected against short circuit”, Jet2 said.

This doesn’t need to be on the power bank explicitly, as you can work it out from the milliampere-hour (mAh), ampere-hour (Ah), and/or nominal voltage (V).

Once you find these, the UK Civil Aviation Authority said: “You can arrive at the number of watt-hours your battery provides if you know the battery’s nominal voltage (V) and capacity in ampere-hours (Ah) using this calculation ― Ah x V = Wh.

“If only the milliampere hours (mAh) are marked on the battery, then divide that number by 1000 to get ampere-hours (Ah). For example, 4400 mAh / 1000 = 4.4 Ah.”

If none of these is available, though, your power bank might not pass muster.

Those are only some of the rules the airline enforces.

• No more than two power banks per passenger,
• Power banks should not exceed 160Wh,
• Power banks can’t be charged whilst onboard the aircraft,
• Power banks can’t be used on-flight,
• Power banks have to be carried on-board in hand luggage and placed under your seat,
• Power banks must not be used to charge or power any portable electronic devices during taxi, take off, and landing.

Jet2 is not the only airline to have some or all of these rules, so check with your airline before flying.