4 d. ago Superdrug expert shares ‘prescription price hack everyone should know’

Some simple requests before you pay could cut down the cost of the exact same medications

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4 d. ago Video suggests capuchin monkeys ‘kidnap’ baby howler monkeys, scientists say

It remains unclear why the monkeys, filmed on a Panamanian island, were taking the babies from another species Scientists have spotted surprising evidence of what they describe as monkey kidnappings while reviewing video footage from a small Panamanian island. Capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023.“This was very much a shocking finding,” said Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioural ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany. “We’ve not seen anything like this in the animal kingdom.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Britain 'has asked to rejoin EU's pet passport scheme' to cut cost of taking animals to the continent

Some 250,000 UK pet owners were estimated to have taken their cats and dogs on holiday to the EU every year before Britain left the scheme when the Brexit transition period ended in January 2021.

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1 week ago Nine ways to cut the cost of hen or stag dos and still have a ball

The average weekend jaunt costs £779 a person in the UK, rising to £1,208 if going abroad. But sendoffs don’t have to be that dearCosts can spiral quickly when you’re planning for a big group and there are lots of ideas flying around. Agree on a realistic budget from the start that works for everyone, and stay within it. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump vows to lower drug prices in the US by up to 80 per cent

President promises to defy industry pressure and dramatically cut cost of pharmaceuticals

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2 w. ago US TV’s first lead cartoon hijabi: how I animated Muslim women to look real

I created the hijabi mom character in #1 Happy Family USA. How she wears it is part of her personality – so I knew I had to get it rightIf you’ve seen a hijab on a screen – animated or otherwise – it’s likely that this Islamic head covering was one specific style.Think Princess Jasmine in the 1992 movie Aladdin, Claire Danes in the series Homeland, or the Zamins in the animated show The Proud Family: Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Britain signs £25.5billion India free trade deal that could cut the cost of clothes, shoes and food for consumers and boost exports of booze and cars

An agreement hammered out with Delhi will see the UK lower tariffs on clothes, shoes and food from the subcontinent, in exchange for reciprocal cuts for products including whisky and cars.

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3 w. ago Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field, the final part of Lyra’s story

The acclaimed writer of His Dark Materials says the third volume in The Book of Dust series will portray a ‘dangerous, breathtaking quest’Philip Pullman has revealed he will tell the final part of Lyra Silvertongue’s story in The Rose Field, which will come out this autumn.It has been six years since a book about Lyra has been published – and 30 since readers first encountered her in Northern Lights, the first in Pullman’s His Dark Materials children’s fantasy trilogy. The bestselling novels, which have since been adapted into a TV series by the BBC, take place across a multiverse and feature “dæmons” – physical manifestations of a person’s soul that take the form of animals. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Malta’s ‘golden passport’ scheme ruled to be illegal by EU’s top court

Long-awaited ruling means cash-for-citizenship programme that allowed people to live and work in bloc must be scrappedEurope live – latest updatesThe European court of justice has ruled that Malta’s “golden passport” scheme is illegal, meaning its cash-for-citizenship programme must be scrapped.In a long-awaited ruling on Tuesday, the EU’s top court concluded that Malta’s investor citizenship scheme was contrary to EU law. Judges said the scheme represented a “commercialisation of the grant of the nationality of a member state” and by extension EU citizenship, which was at odds with European law. Malta had jeopardised the mutual trust between EU member states necessary to create an area without internal borders, the court argued. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Malta ‘golden passport’ scheme breaks law, EU’s top court rules

Paid-for citizenship offer must be scrapped under European Court of Justice ruling

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3 w. ago Malta’s ‘golden passport’ scheme breaks law, EU’s top court rules

Paid-for citizenship offer must be scrapped under European Court of Justice ruling

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