All the essential cost of living information you need in December

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Backlash as critics label the app a ‘dystopian tool to monitor every Indian’

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Head chef Ian Coogan shares three bright, comforting dishes from The Barbary – chermoula sea bass, zhug-butter scallops and a rice pudding brûlée – perfect for early sunsets and colder evenings

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Soybean oil is commonly found in processed foods and has been linked to obesity

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‘They could not, sadly, support a single mom,’ they said

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Defra officials say standards could be tightened for new stoves to lower emissions

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Make sure your cash is working hard for you and earning interest

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Paparazzi have routinely been stationed outside hotels and airports.

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A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence technologies might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world

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An entire month’s rainfall could hit Wales in just 24 hours, forecasters warn

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Becca Bloom’s holiday traditions also include wrapping presents in silk

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Older Americans look for not only leisurely activities when choosing where to retire, but also affordability and quality health care

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Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays

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The Northeast is getting ready for its first major snowstorm of the season, just as the Midwest is beginning to escape snow and ice that snarled travel after the Thanksgiving holiday

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Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals that are seeing their numbers decline due to the exotic pet trade

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Ukrainian troops fighting in eastern Ukraine are expressing doubts that a peace proposal currently being negotiated will prevent Russia from attacking their country again

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Hong Kong has set up an independent commission to investigate a deadly fire that burned seven apartment buildings and killed at least 151 people

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Luigi Mangione is due back in court for the second day of a hearing in his bid to bar New York prosecutors from using evidence that they say links him to last year’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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Seventeen mass killings have occurred this year in the U.S., the lowest since 2006

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Lorraine Kelly is lending her support to The Independent’s SafeCall campaign as she urges people to donate to help fund a lifeline for missing children in crisis

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Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow and is due to meet the Russian president today

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Gabrielle Henry was carried away on a stretcher during last months global beauty pageant

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Nonkululeko Mantula was arrested alongside four men

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Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he is wrapping up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon

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