Sat 26 July 2025: A 61-year-old Austrian man is suspected of fraudulently obtaining €300,000 ($351,000) in social benefits over several years, police said on Friday. The man allegedly exploited a disability assistance scheme since 2018 that is intended to allow people with severe physical impairments to live at home instead of in a care facility. […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: New research has shown that brain ageing grew faster during the COVID-19 pandemic even for people who did not catch the virus. The research by British scientists showed that lockdowns, fear, and isolation endured during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic could have lasting impacts on people’s cognitive function. Researchers examined brain scans from nearly 1,000 healthy […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: More than 3,800 NASA employees — over 20% of the agency’s civil servant workforce — have applied to resign under a federal buyout program, as the space agency faces major budget cuts and leadership uncertainty, according to US media reports on Friday. The deferred resignation program, part of a Trump administration […]
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Sat 26 July 2025: The Trump administration is planning to tighten rules for legal immigration, including making the US citizenship test harder and changing the H-1B visa system to favor high-wage employers, according to the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services. “The test, as it’s laid out right now, is not very difficult,” USCIS […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: A lawyer for France’s first couple said they’ll be seeking “substantial” damages from US conservative influencer Candace Owens if she persists with claims that President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte, is a man. The lawyer, Tom Clare, said in an interview with CNN that a defamation suit filed Wednesday for the Macrons in a […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: New party set to challenge Labour from the left as government’s popularity wanes over welfare policy, war in Gaza. United Kingdom lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn has announced he is launching a new political party to run to the left of the Labour party that he previously led. On Thursday, Corbyn and Member of Parliament […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: The US birth rate has fluctuated over the years and can be influenced by factors such as economic stability. The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to a new low of 1.6 children per woman, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). […]
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Fri 25 July 2025: US President Donald Trump denied reports Thursday that suggested he plans to destroy Elon Musk’s companies by removing government subsidies. “Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the US Government. This is not so,” […]
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Thu 24 July 2025: Analysts expect a turnaround in future quarters as the automaker bets on robotaxi expansions. Tesla has reported its biggest decline in quarterly revenue in more than a decade as CEO Elon Musk’s political activity weighs on the electric carmaker brand’s reputation. Revenue fell to $22.5bn for the April-June quarter from $25.5bn […]
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Thu 24 July 2025: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said the European Union should “make correct strategic choices,” urging the bloc’s top leaders to strengthen “trust and communication” amid global uncertainty, state broadcaster CCTV reported. In his opening remarks at the 25th EU-China summit that began at the Great Hall of the People in […]
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