DON’T CLICK WITHOUT THINKING – AND 4 OTHER WAYS TO KEEP YOURSELF SAFE FROM SCAMS

Fri 08 August 2025: Think about how many things you have done online today. Paid a bill? Logged into your bank account? Used social media or spent time answering emails? Maybe you have used your phone to pay at a supermarket or train station. We are all plugged in, and that’s not necessarily a bad […]

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YOUR PHONE IS COVERED IN GERMS: A TECH EXPERT EXPLAINS HOW TO CLEAN IT WITHOUT DOING DAMAGE

Thu 07 August 2025: We wash our hands, sanitise shopping trolleys and wipe down cafe tables. But what about our phones? We touch these devices dozens of times a day, and take them everywhere from the kitchen to the dining table, and even the bathroom. Phones can be contaminated with many kinds of potential germs. When was […]

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MORE THAN 10,000 EUROPEAN HOTELS SEEKING DAMAGES FROM BOOKING.COM

Tue 05 August 2025: More than 10,000 European hotels are joining collective legal action against Amsterdam-based Booking.com to seek compensation for losses caused by the online travel agency’s use of so-called “best price” clauses. The clauses ban the hotels from offering rooms on their own websites at a lower rate and are seen by them […]

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SHARE OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE ‘THRIVING’ HITS NEW HIGH, SURVEY SAYS

Sun 03 August 2025: More people globally report living closer to their ‘best possible life’, Gallup says.  People across the globe are living better lives and expressing more hope for the future, with the share of those “thriving” hitting a record high, a survey has found. Across 142 countries last year, a median of 33 percent of […]

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2,500-YEAR-OLD ANCIENT PYRAMID COLLAPSES INTO RUBBLE IN MEXICO

Sun 03 August 2025: The pyramid, located in the Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, was one of the best-preserved remnants of the P’urhépecha Kingdom, the only empire never conquered by the Aztecs. The P’urhépecha culture still survives today. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) blamed recent extreme weather, noting that intense heat followed by drought created cracks in the […]

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STUDY: ADULTS INHALE UP TO 68,000 MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES DAILY, OVER 100 TIMES PREVIOUS ESTIMATES

Fri 01 August 2025: People may be inhaling more than 100 times the amount of microplastics previously estimated, with adults breathing in around 68,000 plastic particles per day from both indoor and outdoor air, researchers said in a new study. The findings, published in the journal PLOS One, highlight the underestimated scale of airborne microplastic […]

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