Image copyright Getty Images People who do not have access to a bank account pay an extra £485 a year for everyday bills and services, research from a challenger bank suggests. More than 1.2 million Britons do not have a bank account, so miss out on discounts reserved for those who pay bills by direct […]
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LOS ANGELES ― Yoojin Park, a junior at the University of Southern California, is a biology major and a tutor for a program that matches undergraduates with local elementary schools. And as of November of last semester, 21-year-old Park is also a sex worker. Since escaping an abusive home three years ago, Park has bounced
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Image copyright Getty Images Tesla said it is investigating a video on Chinese social media that appears to show one of its vehicles bursting into flames in Shanghai. In a statement, the carmaker said it had sent a team to investigate the matter, and that there were no reported casualties. The video, which has not
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The largest private-sector strike by U.S. workers in three years came to an apparent end Sunday, with the grocery chain Stop & Shop announcing it had reached a tentative agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers union. The union said in a statement that the new contract includes pay increases and “preserves health care
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The two presidents preside over markedly different national economic models A US-China trade deal – if it happens – is unlikely to end the rivalry between the two economic giants. Both sides have fought a trade war over the past year with damaging consequences for the global economy. But
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Image caption BTS’s album, Map Of The Soul: Persona, is heading for number one on both sides of the Atlantic Almost 30 years ago, in a classroom in the Jung Institute of Evanston, Illinois, Dr Murray Stein delivered a series of lectures that have had an unexpected impact on pop history. The topic was Carl
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionClimate Change – The Facts is available to watch on BBC iPlayer Sir David Attenborough’s new BBC documentary on climate change has been praised by TV critics. Climate Change – The Facts, shown on BBC One on Thursday, was a “rousing call to arms”, said the Guardian.
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Image copyright Lil Dicky Image caption The video features cameos from 30 celebrity musicians An all-star animated environmental music video featuring the voices of Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande has gone viral on social media. The song Earth, by comedian and rapper Lil Dicky, also has cameos from Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg and
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Actress Dame Emma Thompson has been defending her decision to fly from the US to attend a climate change protest in central London. Speaking to reporters from the Extinction Rebellion campaign group’s pink boat, she said did not fly as much as she used to – and planted a lot of trees. Ms Thompson also
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Image copyright Official Charts Company South Korean boyband BTS have landed their first ever UK number one album with the philosophy-inspired Map of the Soul: Persona. It means the seven-member group is now the first Korean act to score a chart-topping album in the UK. The band is playing two sold out shows at London’s
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