26 h. ago The countries with the longest and shortest life expectancies for retired expats revealed

The research, from expat insurance company William Russell, looks at people's average life expectancy from the age of 60 onwards. Find out which country tops the list...

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3 d. ago Fired hurricane hunter says Americans could see ‘more damage and more loss of life’ with NOAA layoffs

More layoffs are expected to slam the agency that’s responsible for life-saving weather forecasting

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5 d. ago Grim life expectancy figures could prove promising for state pension age

The state pension age is set to increase to 67 between 2026 and 2028 and 68 by 2046 - but this could be delayed as life expectancy rates have fallen in recent years

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6 d. ago State pension age changes may be reviewed as UK life expectancy 'falls'

Pension Minister Torsten Bell has said that the future rises to the state pension age may need to be reviewed as Brits face a slowing down in life expectancy

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9 d. ago The left needs to abandon its miserable, irrational pessimism | Aaron Bastani

A hundred years ago the average person, in one of the the world’s wealthiest societies, could expect to live until 40. Now global life expectacy is 73At the start of the millennium it was widely presumed each successive generation would achieve a higher level of prosperity than the last. Today that is no longer the case. Just 19% of Americans expect their children’s lives to be better than their own, while two-thirds believe their country will be economically weaker by 2050.So our zeitgeist is increasingly one of pessimism, from anxiety about the climate crisis to concern over rising inequality. According to the historian Adam Tooze, we are living through a “polycrisis” – where such challenges are not only simultaneous but mutually reinforcing.Aaron Bastani is the co-founder of Novara Media. He is also the author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'World's oldest llama' beats rival Dalai Llama and still goes to work every day

This llama may be the oldest in captivity in the world – surpassing the average llama life expectancy by more than 12 years – but that doesn't stop him from showing up to work every single day

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2 w. ago ‘I screamed and the world listened’: how astronaut Amanda Nguyen survived rape to fight for other victims

Assaulted at 22, Nguyen was shocked to find she would have to pay for her rape evidence kit – which might be destroyed long before any court case. She talks about her battle for survivors’ rights, and the ambition that is taking her into spaceBehind a hospital curtain, under strip lighting, with a specialist nurse and a rape crisis volunteer at her side, Amanda Nguyen lay dazed and bruised. Her body and soul hurt in places she didn’t know could hurt. She felt icy cold but at the same time burning hot – she was, she said, a cold slab of meat while her insides were liquid magma. Yet from her hospital bed, she was expected to process information and make decisions that could change her life.Just hours earlier, Nguyen, then 22, had been living her dream. “I was a student at Harvard, three months from graduation with the rest of my life in front of me,” she says. Her head was buzzing with two possible futures: her lifelong ambition of becoming an astronaut – astrophysics was her subject ...

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2 w. ago Tiny Greek island where locals 'defy death' – with help from one healthy drink

A New York Times bestselling author and longevity expert has pinpointed a specific location where he claims "people refuse to die" due to its impressive life expectancy

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2 w. ago Revealed: The two cities with the lowest life expectancy for men and women

Children born in Britain are now expected to live longer than ever before, with ONS figures saying baby boys can hope for 86.7 years while girls could get a total of 90.

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2 w. ago Cambridge scientists warn this habit could shorten your life by 'two to five' years

Consuming 18 of these beverages per week was related to a 'four to five years shorter life expectancy', past research showed

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2 w. ago I'm a Stanford doctor studying the grim rise of cancer in young people. Now it's killing me too... here's the warning sign I missed

Aside from an occasional overindulgence in junk food, I live a healthy life. I have never smoked and rarely drink alcohol. Now I have stage four cancer and my life expectancy is two years...

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2 w. ago Life is full of unexpected moments that sweep us off our feet. JEMIMA CAINER reveals the star signs that will be ready for change

Some people say that good things happen when you least expect them, but others insist that life delivers what we focus on Life is full of unexpected moments that sweep us off our feet.

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Sort Your Life Out on BBC1: 6,568 items of clothing, 437 pairs of shoes? Now that's a shopaholic... 

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The word is SABLE - an acronym for Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy. In other words, you've got far too much stuff.

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3 w. ago ‘My life expectancy is short’: America’s most vulnerable – in pictures

From train hoppers to addicts and prostitutes, Mark Laita’s photo series unpicks the complex life stories of those who exist on society’s fringe Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Elimination of federal climate tools, some used to inquire in to Musk’s firms, sparks alarm

Environment justice advocates say tools to study pollution in vulnerable communities by companies, including xAI and SpaceX, have disappearedAs Donald Trump’s administration continues its purge of federal agencies, environmental justice campaigners are alarmed by the disappearance of federal environmental and climate data tools – some of which have been used to identify pollution concerns about Elon Musk’s companies.Several federal agencies, including the EPA and CDC, previously published data regarding pollution levels across the country, as well as data about the vulnerability of each census tract, such as poverty rates and life expectancy. Several of the websites containing that data have gone dark in the weeks following Trump’s inauguration. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UK weather maps show when eye of the storm will hit Wales after Met Office issue amber 'danger to life' warning

The Met Office has issued an amber rain warning for part of Wales, which will bring a risk of "danger to life". Rain will start on Sunday afternoon, with the heaviest expected to fall from 4pm until Monday at 7am.

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3 w. ago Met office 'danger to life' amber weather warning issued for Wales with flooding now expected and power cuts likely

It is one of three weather warnings in place across Wales over the next few days

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3 w. ago Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals disgusting effect on his body when he has an ultraprocessed cheat meal

Controversial biohacker Bryan Johnson, who wants to break the 120-year ceiling of human life expectancy, revealed to DailyMail.com the last time he had a cheat meal and how it made him feel.

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3 w. ago Severance fans visit real Lumon building and leave gobsmacked by what is inside

Fans of the Apple TV series Severance have discovered that they can visit the iconic Lumon building in real life, and it's beyond anything they could have ever expected

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3 w. ago Five methods to increase your life expectancy, according to longevity doctors

Doctors have shared these simple, inexpensive lifestyle swaps that could boost the number of years you'll live

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