Nationwide cuts mortgage rates below 5%
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Homeowners can lock into a two-year mortgage rate below 5 per cent for the first time in months as lenders continue to…
Record numbers of parents in Japan say they will stop having children amid financial struggles
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Parents in Japan are increasingly averse to the idea of having more children, a survey has revealed, as the country’s government expressed concern over the…
Mortgage arrears jump as homeowners and landlords feel pressure from rate hikes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The number of mortgages in arrears has jumped as cost-of-living pressures and higher rates on home loans bite, according to a trade…
Living well with HIV possible through advances in drug therapy
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Stakeholders are unanimous that Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), if untreated, has gone from certain death sentences…
Zimbabwe: Interview: ‘1 in 8 drug users is HIV positive’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute ZIMBABWE is battling increased drug and substance abuse, especially among youths, which is reportedly contributing to a spike in new HIV infections….
Doc parades HIV patients 'cured by biomolecules'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A cardic surgeons, Dr Dhani Ram Baruah, bad in Sonapur near Guhawati, has made bold claims about curing HIV, removing heart blockages…
'Migrants desperate for water found in the back of two lorries' as police shutdown motorway services to deal with 'emergency incident'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Migrants ‘desperate for water’ have been found in the back of two lorries, causing police to close a portion of the M4,…
Thousands fall ill in eastern Pakistan due to heavy smog, forcing closure of schools, markets, parks
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and…
Charities warn ‘pandemic of poverty’ has engulfed UK as record 1.5 million emergency parcels handed out
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Charities have said a “pandemic of poverty” has engulfed the UK as food banks handed out a record of 1.5 million emergency parcels in a six-month…
For lung cancer it's 74. For breast cancer, 70. And for cervical cancer it's just 64. So why does the NHS impose age limits on health screening that could save older people's lives?
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Waiting for the results of a chest scan last year, Diane Galloway was braced for a diagnosis of a serious lung condition. …