40 h. ago Japan's annual births fall to record low as country's 'silent emergency' deepens

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899, according to government data, as younger people are reluctant to marry and raise children due to economic concern and a society that still adds extra burden only on women

Politics

62 h. ago Bruno Fernandes breaks silence on rejecting £300m Man Utd exit and reveals Ruben Amorim talks

Bruno Fernandes looked certain to leave Manchester United for Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal in a lucrative £100million move that would have pocketed him around £700,000-a-week, before he snubbed the transfer

Economics

3 d. ago Over 700,000 pensioners urged to claim DWP income boost ahead of Winter Fuel Payment changes

An additional 58,000 households are now receiving Pension Credit payments.

Economics

7 d. ago Pole dancer is set to win planning battle to keep dance studio at her £700,000 bungalow despite angry neighbours' complaints over 'grunting and loud noise'

Samilou Saunders has been battling 'generational bias' from neighbours in the town who are against her business.

Economics

8 d. ago 700,000 PIP claimants won't be affected by DWP changes despite change

Pensions Minister, Sir Stephen Timms, addressed concerns of how proposed changes to PIP will affect pensioners

Politics

9 d. ago DWP reveals the 700,000 people who will avoid Starmer’s PIP benefits changes

Minister for social security and disability Sir Stephen Timms confirmed which group will be unaffected by PIP changes

Politics

1 week ago Three symptoms that strike when you walk, talk and urinate that could mean you have rare brain disorder suffered by Billy Joel

It's the condition that affects an estimated 700,000 Americans, but is often mistaken for dementia, Alzheimer's or Parkinsons.

Science

1 week ago Napoleon's iconic hat leads stunning auction of French emperor's prized possessions worth more than £5million

Expected to sell for nearly £700,000, the hat is one of around 100 objects being sold in Paris via leading auction house Sotheby's with an overall estimate of more than £5million (€6million).

Economics

1 week ago Brothers say morale high despite ‘achingly hard’ conditions on Pacific row

Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean are 40 days and some 2,700 nautical miles into their bid to row the 9,000-miles from Peru to Australia.

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2 w. ago His plans were serious, not bravado, and they made him almost £700,000

"This kids f***** now"

Economics

2 w. ago ‘People are buying crossbows faster than I’d like’ – how prepping went mainstream in Britain

Once, getting ready for the apocalypse was for the paranoid. Now, in the face of cyber-attacks, climate breakdown and nuclear threats, the UK government recommends it. Should everyone have a survival kit?This is a great time to be a shopkeeper, if that shop is for those worried about the breakdown of civilisation. “It started with Covid, and people weren’t looking for toilet rolls, put it that way,” says Justin Jones, who runs the online UK Prepping Shop, whose stock ranges from emergency food and wind-up radios to crossbows and body armour.Business is booming, as is the British prepping scene – 22,700 members of the UK Preppers and Survivalists Facebook group, 6,000 in the UK Preppers Club Facebook group. The scene is not as well-known as its US and Canadian equivalents, but that’s partly by choice. “Preppers are by nature a little bit secretive,” says Bushra Shehzad, who is researching prepping for a PhD in marketing and consumer behaviour at Newcastle University. “They are scepti...

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2 w. ago ‘People were buying crossbows faster than I’d like’ – how prepping went mainstream in Britain

Once, getting ready for the apocalypse was for the paranoid. Now, in the face of cyber-attacks, climate breakdown and nuclear threats, the UK government recommends it. Should everyone have a survival kit?This is a great time to be a shopkeeper, if that shop is for those worried about the breakdown of civilisation. “It started with Covid, and people weren’t looking for toilet rolls, put it that way,” says Justin Jones, who runs the online UK Prepping Shop, whose stock ranges from emergency food and wind-up radios to crossbows and body armour.Business is booming, as is the British prepping scene – 22,700 members of the UK Preppers and Survivalists Facebook group, 6,000 in the UK Preppers Club Facebook group. The scene is not as well-known as its US and Canadian equivalents, but that’s partly by choice. “Preppers are by nature a little bit secretive,” says Bushra Shehzad, who is researching prepping for a PhD in marketing and consumer behaviour at Newcastle University. “They are scepti...

Politics

2 w. ago New DWP update for older people on PIP ahead of welfare reforms next year

Nearly 700,000 people of State Pension age are receiving PIP payments of up to £749.80 each month.

Politics

3 w. ago From 1948 to now, a Palestinian woman in Gaza recounts a life of displacement

Palestinians across the Middle East are commemorating the anniversary of the “Nakba” -- Arabic for “the Catastrophe” -- when some 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by Israeli forces or fled their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war that surrounded its creation

Politics

3 w. ago Martin Lewis 'flabbergasted' over 'flawed system' that affects 700,000 pensioners

The new means tested winter fuel payments are only given to people on pension credit - but there are 700,000 eligible pensioners not claiming it when they could be

Society

3 w. ago PIP claimants that ‘shouldn’t be affected by reform’ could still be at risk experts warn

700,000 people were recently told the changes won’t affect them, but a loophole may mean it does

Events

4 w. ago DWP benefit changes 'will hit 700,000 families already in poverty'

Internal DWP forecasts show that large numbers of people will lose out because of the government's planned £5 billion cuts and reforms to social security

Events

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Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve 12 months in prison — the maximum penalty for the offense — for violating wildlife conservation laws

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