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Image copyright Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for train tickets from today. The rise, announced by industry body the Rail Delivery Group in November, is lower than the 3.1% increase at the start of last year. Train companies say it is the third year in […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJordi Casamitjana campaigns to encourage others to become vegans A vegan man is bringing a landmark legal action later, in which a tribunal will decide for the first time whether veganism is a “philosophical belief” akin to a religion. Jordi Casamitjana says he was sacked by the

Image copyright Getty Images The number of people killed in crashes of large commercial planes fell by more than 50% in 2019, according to an aviation industry study. Last year 257 fatalities were recorded, compared to 534 in 2018, according to aviation consultancy To70. That’s despite the high-profile Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia in

Image copyright AFP Image caption Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of Nissan, managed to leave Japan where he was awaiting trial He was once a titan of the car industry who held hero status in Japan. He then became one of the country’s most well-known criminal suspects. Now he’s an international fugitive. Carlos Ghosn, the

Image copyright Reuters Customers of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland have been unable to access their accounts after the group’s online banking services crashed. Websites and mobile apps for the three companies, part of Lloyds Banking group, were all unavailable. The banks apologised and said the issue was to do with the log-in process

Image caption Lorna is part of a growing trend for over-50s to use dating apps Is your new year’s resolution to find true love? If so, you may well be considering a dating app for your phone. Thanks to trailblazers like Tinder, online dating has gone mainstream. And mature daters want in on the action

Image copyright Simon Whitwood Image caption Reggie and Simon still believe in package holidays New research suggests most people still want to book package holidays despite what happened after the collapse of Thomas Cook. The failure of the UK’s oldest travel company highlighted the consumer protection provided for holidays booked through an agent. That’s what

Image copyright AFP Contributor Image caption Some 2,400 U.S. servicemen have died in Afghanistan since the military operation began in 2001 Africa’s largest mobile operator MTN says it is reviewing allegations that it paid protection money to militant Islamist groups in Afghanistan. The allegations, made in a legal complaint filed in a US federal court

Image copyright Reuters Image caption It remains unclear how Mr Ghosn managed to leave Japan, where he was awaiting trial A lawyer for former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn says he is “dumbfounded” by the news that his client has fled to Lebanon after jumping bail in Japan. “We were completely caught by surprise,” defence team

Image copyright AFP Donald Trump has announced he will sign a long-awaited trade agreement with China on 15 January. The pact, a “phase one” deal, is expected to reduce tensions between the two economic giants. The US president said the treaty would be signed in Washington in the presence of “high level representatives” from China.