Peppermint oil may have an unexpected benefit for people with mildly high blood pressure. Adults who took a small dose twice daily for 20 days saw their systolic blood pressure fall by an average of 8.5 mmHg, while a placebo group showed little change. Researchers say the inexpensive oil could eventually provide a simple additional option for managing elevated blood pressure.
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Peppermint oil lowers blood pressure in just 20 dayshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260821012238.htm
Show HN: MiniMax H3 on a 16GB Mac, 5 days after open weightshttps://github.com/tgo-app-dev/vpipe
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Palestinian-British girl, 6, dies days after family drowned off UK coasthttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/22/palestinian-british-girl-6-dies-days-after-family-drowned-off-uk-coast
Saja el-Khawas's death follows that of her mother, father and sister on Tuesday, all of whom drowned.

Trump waives βout-of-quotaβ beef tariffs for 90 days to lower priceshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/21/trump-waives-out-of-quota-beef-tariffs-for-90-days-to-lower-prices
The president did not mention with whom he made the deal or where the imported ground beef is coming from.

Watch: Fishermen rescued after five days adrift in cool boxhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1l10g94yg1o
The men, aged 53 and 32, lost contact with their fishing cooperative on 14 August, 75 miles off the coast of Mexico.
