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The beleaguered credit reference agency Equifax has now admitted that 694,000 customers in the UK had their data stolen between May and July this year.The firm’s original estimate of its UK cyber-theft victims, made last month, was fewer, at nearly

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Tourism is booming in the UK with nearly 40 million overseas people expected to have visited the country during 2017 – a record figure.Tourist promotion agency VisitBritain forecasts overseas trips to the UK will increase 6% to 39.7 million with spending up 14%

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The United Nations has banned four ships from visiting any global port, after they were found violating sanctions imposed on North Korea. Hugh Griffiths, co-ordinator of a UN panel on North Korean sanctions, described the move as unprecedented. The ships were

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are contributing to global warming, so could technologies removing some of the gas from the atmosphere help slow the process?When you tuck yourself into bed tonight – curling up on your memory foam mattress and fluffy pillows

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Media playback is unsupported on your device “It was my first night as an intern and three children died before my eyes. I felt so helpless that I cried.” In 1996, Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti was working in the paediatric department of the Sylhet Medical

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The world is on a “crash course” as people’s hopes collide with a future in which millions of jobs are automated, the World Bank chief has said.Jim Yong Kim said policymakers should take action by investing in education and health.The World Bank

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Car insurance premiums have dipped for the first time in more than three years, but the respite for drivers will be short-lived, analysis suggests.Prices fell by 1%, or £9, in the third quarter of the year compared with the previous three months, according to price

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Higher prices for food and clothing prices driven up by the weak pound fuelled retail sales growth last month.British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG figures showed that like-for-like retail sales rose 1.9% in SeptemberThat was far higher than the 0.4% increase for

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Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say.Sources quoted by the Washington Post say the adverts aimed to spread disinformation across Google’s products

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