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A £6bn deal to sell Eurofighter Typhoons to Qatar will help safeguard thousands of UK jobs.BAE Systems employs about 5,000 people in the UK to build the fighter jets, mainly at Warton in Lancashire.Qatar’s purchase of 24 jets includes a support and training

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Disgraced celebrity publicist Max Clifford has died in hospital, aged 74, after collapsing in prison.Clifford collapsed in his cell at Littlehey Prison in Cambridgeshire on Thursday and again on Friday, his daughter said. He was taken to hospital where he suffered a

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Students in England are going to be offered degrees in two years with a £5,500 saving in tuition fees, says the universities minister Jo Johnson.Undergraduate courses will be condensed into “accelerated” degrees, with fees 20% less than a three-year

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Apple is close to buying the music recognition app Shazam for about $400m (£300m), media reports say.Shazam, a UK company founded in 1999, allows people to use their smartphone or computer to identify and buy music through a snippet of sound.Shazam, which says it has

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More and more of us are attending so called “sip and paint” classes, where you learn to paint while enjoying a drink (or two). But can you hone your skills while under the influence of alcohol?It’s Thursday night and instead of catching up with

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Blogger Kimberly Espinel earns a living by showing people how to photograph their food for social media. She charges about $270 a session. She says most of her clients don’t work in the food industry but want to show off their meals on Instagram.Video

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In its early days, Bitcoin might have been dismissed as a quirky tech sector fad. But it is rapidly evolving into the mainstream and has already made some people rich.If once Bitcoin was seen as a tool for money launderers and drug dealers, it has recently become as

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Your financial information, such as what you spend and where, and how often you go into debt is private. It is information only available to you and your bank.It has been like that for years, but all that is about to change.Customers of nine of the biggest UK banks

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Is the World Trade Organization about to be derailed by Donald Trump?Ministers from its 164 member nations will meet in Buenos Aires this weekend as the guardian of global commerce seeks to oil the wheels of international trade.The WTO is at the heart of the system of

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