7 h. ago More than half of people who acted on social media financial advice ‘lost money’

TSB is urging people to do their research to check that content is accurate, before acting on money advice.

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7 h. ago Ashes of 166 people lost after blunder by firm offering 'funerals in space'

The Exploration Company (TEC) is investigating how the ashes were lost during the mission, attempted to have been completed for the American space burial company Celestis

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4 d. ago Cult massacre site where over 900 people died opens in 'dark tourism' trend

The location where hundreds of people lost their lives in a truly horrific cult massacre has become a tourist destination – the move has sparked backlash as some have called it 'a money grab'

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5 d. ago 'I lost 112lbs in a year and people don't believe pictures are same person'

Mum Hannah, 39, started losing weight last June and is already down to 140lbs

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1 week ago I know why JoJo Siwa felt pressured into calling herself a lesbian before dating Chris Hughes: FLORENCE SCORDOULIS

You may think that we've moved past prejudices based on people's sexuality. But, sadly, I've lost track of the number of biphobic comments I've heard over the years.

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2 w. ago 'Transformative' weight loss pill sees people shed 13.1% of body weight in just 12 weeks

The study showed that people who received higher doses of amycretin as a weekly jab lost 24.3% of their body weight after just 36 weeks - from next week, GPs will be able to administer them

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2 w. ago Director of Netflix's Grenfell: Uncovered's personal connection to devastating fire

72 people lost their lives in the tragedy that occured in 2017

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2 w. ago I lost weight and now people treat me better. How do I reconcile this? | Leading questions

It’s easy to resent being treated better because of how you look, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. Try to notice who has treated you the same all alongRead more Leading questionsI am a woman who has been fat since I was about eight; I am now in my early 50s. I have been on Ozempic for almost two years. I have lost almost 50 kilos and can now do a whole lot of things that I wasn’t physically able to do before, which is great. But people treat me differently now. I had my work review and I am doing less but got feedback about how much more I am doing. I have been asked if I am looking to date, and even if I am thinking of having a child, both questions I never was asked when I was bigger. I didn’t think people treated me badly before, and still don’t, but now I am seeing that there is a difference. It is not comfortable for me. I am not at risk of putting the weight back on but how do I navigate the difference in how people are treating me?Eleanor says: A lot of people no...

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3 w. ago ‘I didn’t sleep for 45 days’: the people who raffle off their homes

It’s an eccentric and work-intensive way to sell your house, but people are now raffling off even the most modest properties. Is it a good idea?When Natalie Rowcroft decided to raffle off her house in Salford, everybody – including her husband, Bradley Rowcroft – thought she “had lost the plot”. It was July 2020; people were doing stranger things with their first pandemic summer. But given that she had read a newspaper article about a couple who’d raffled their house in the morning, and had put her own up for sale by the evening, the scepticism was well-founded. “At first, I wanted nothing to do with it,” says Bradley, a 38-year-old carpenter. It didn’t help that she had also chucked the family car in the draw for good measure.Still, Natalie, 38, a teaching assistant, persevered. She printed out leaflets and put them up all over Salford and Manchester, set up social media accounts to promote the draw and bought a big poster to hang in the couple’s driveway. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'I was on the Titan submersible days before it imploded and one thing still haunts me'

Five people lost their lives on the OceanGate vessel

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3 w. ago Air India plane crash Live Updates: Lost lot of people, government says on plane crash in Ahmedabad

Air India plane crash Live Updates: Lost lot of people, government says on plane crash in Ahmedabad  India Today

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3 w. ago UK equalities watchdog: Transgender people may be asked about gender status in workplace

Trans people who feel they’ve lost rights should ‘distinguish between rights in law and preference for things to be a certain way’, EHCR chair saidTransgender people may be asked about their gender status in the workplace, the equalities watchdog has said, with its chair arguing people should “distinguish between rights in law, and a preference for things to be a certain way”.Giving evidence to the women and equalities select committee, the chair and chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said trans people should not be fearful of the repercussions of April’s supreme court ruling, which found the word “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago A moment that changed me: I went to a death cafe – and learned how to live a much happier life

I felt peace flood over me as I realised I no longer needed to seek validation from others. Rather than saying yes to everything, I became more open, present and patient‘Are you afraid of dying, or are you afraid of not living?” Last year, I was sitting in a circle of strangers – half Buddhist monks, half morbidly curious members of the public – when someone asked one of the most profound questions I had ever heard. I was at a “death cafe”, at my local Buddhist centre in south London. A plate of biscuits was passed around while people nursed mugs of hot tea. At 29, I was one of the youngest attending the informal chat about death and dying, which was part of an initiative to encourage more open conversations about the ends of our lives.During the session, people reflected on the lives of those they had lost. Stories were shared about the joyful moments they had had together. A woman asked me why I would want to come to something like this, at my age. I looked around before revealing...

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4 w. ago ‘Too many people lost work’: doubts in South Africa’s coal belt over ‘just energy transition’

The country wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions without destroying livelihoods, but progress is slow – and the residents of a small town are in the crosshairsCooling towers and smokestacks still loom over the single-storey houses of Komati, but the winter sky is clear: smoke hasn’t billowed from the vast concrete chimneys of the South African town’s power station since it stopped burning coal in 2022, 61 years after its inauguration.While the state power company Eskom didn’t fire any permanent employees, the end of coal generation and earlier job losses in nearby mines have fuelled doubts in the small town and wider coal belt that there are any benefits to South Africa’s “just energy transition” to renewable power. Continue reading...

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