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Media playback is unsupported on your device “I am actually nine months pregnant and it is a little tricky for me to travel,” says midwife Fatima as she carefully makes her way down some steep stone steps to the door of her clinic.”But I come here

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Bangalore-based software company Ezetap has developed a platform that makes it easy to pay anywhere with any device you like.It has created software allowing a merchant with a smartphone to accept any type of payment and see that money moved seamlessly into their own

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“I have strong concerns over infant formula,” admits Zeng, mother of 11-month-old Yiyi. She is worried about the health risks her daughter faces from fake baby milk. Her concerns illustrate the human aspect of a lucrative global scandal which has seen

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The BBC’s Blue Planet II programme is to become its first TV series to be made available in 4K resolution and high dynamic range (HDR) colour via its iPlayer catch-up service.All seven episodes of the marine-themed show are being made available to UK-based

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The UK and EU have failed to reach an agreement to move to the next stage of Brexit talks, Theresa May has said.The prime minister said talks would reconvene “before the end of the week” and she was “confident we will conclude this

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Media playback is unsupported on your device A giant 709-carat diamond unearthed in Sierra Leone has sold at auction in New York for $6.5m (£4.8m).Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds, won the precious stone – nicknamed the “peace diamond”

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A ban on sports betting in most US states could be overturned by a case being considered by the Supreme Court.The state of New Jersey is challenging the 1992 federal law that largely outlawed sports gambling, describing the matter as a “states’

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Most people due to take a driving test on Monday did so despite a strike by examiners, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) said.The examiners’ strike coincided with a new type of driving test introduced this week.The action, taken in conjunction with

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Leading Brexit supporters have urged the prime minister not to settle the UK’s “divorce bill” unless the EU agrees to a series of conditions.The Leave Means Leave group, which includes ex-cabinet ministers, says Brussels must end the European Court

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Home ownership can be a thing of beauty. Just as you don a pair of fur-lined slippers and spend more time on the golf course, you find you have paid off your mortgage.For the rest of your life, accommodation is effectively free.But this utopian model is becoming the

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