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You may have to travel at the last moment. You may go to a destination you had not previously considered. But you could well bag a bargain. Membership-based websites offering flash sales of package holidays or hotel stays have been around for a while, but competition is hotting up — and there are some great … Read more
Back in September I wrote a column about the coming flu season. I warned about the very serious threat of a new virus emerging and causing a pandemic. It wasn’t a case of if, I said, but when. So will Covid-19, the coronavirus infection that has been devastating China, turn out to be a pandemic … Read more
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 After Laurence Fox’s hilariously anti-woke performance on Question Time tonight, the insufferably irritating Lily Allen blasted on Instagram: ‘Sick to death of luvvies like Fox going on TV and forcing their opinions on everybody else. Stick to acting, mate, instead of ranting about things you don’t know anything about.’ It’s very early … Read more
Written by Aranya Shankar , Somya Lakhani | New Delhi | Updated: February 17, 2020 10:03:21 am Grab from video of police attacking students in the Jamia library on December 15, 2019. The students’ organisation that is coordinating the protests against the new citizenship law in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has released a video … Read more
Size is the big issue of 2020. Not so long ago, it felt hugely comforting to be an investor in an extra large stock market fund, run by a star manager. The fund’s scale seemed to provide the ideal mix: security, plus the power to outperform. But then came Neil Woodford, bringing in his wake … Read more
A girl who beat bone cancer and had surgery to reattach her foot backwards is more active than ever before. Amelia Eldred, nine, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – the most common type of bone cancer – in August 2017. Doctors amputated her knee and part of her leg, then re-attached her foot and heel joints back-to-front … Read more
Hundreds of savings accounts now beat inflation as the official rate falls to 1.3% – including 17 easy-access deals Highest number of accounts which match or beat CPI since August 2016 Figures from Savings Champion found 17 of those are easy-access deals The fall to 1.3% may mean a base rate cut could be due, … Read more
The delicious way to beat diabetes By Professor Roy Taylor Published: 00:02 GMT, 12 January 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 12 January 2020 It’s the groundbreaking new plan from the scientist who created the world-famous 5:2 diet. Who knew that healthy eating could be so tasty? For this quick-fix – and super-healthy – tacos recipe, … Read more
How turmeric could offer hope in the fight against CANCER: Scientists say compound curcumin found in the popular spice has tumour-killing potential Review of 5,000 studies found curcumin killed cancer cells and stopped growth Killed off breast, lung, blood, bone, stomach, bowel, pancreatic, prostate cancer US researchers concluded the spice could ‘represent effective drug for … Read more
Being overweight could HELP cancer patients beat the disease because ‘fat people respond better to a powerful immunotherapy drug’ Scientists discovered fat cancer patients responded better to atezolizumab The immunotherapy drug is given to patients with non-small-cell lung cancer But the benefits were not seen for fat patients given chemo drug docetaxel By Stephen Matthews … Read more