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Sarah ReeveSarah and Lee have been together for 25 years and have always had a joint bank account When Sarah Reeve got engaged she gave fiance Lee an ultimatum: he had to pay off his debt before she would marry him.”I was paying my mortgage and bills whereas he was giving his mum some rent,” Sarah says of their situations when they met in their early 20s. “I told him I wouldn’t marry him if he had any debts,” says the 45-year-old.So they set a wedding date for two years ahead which gave Lee the time to pay off the…
Getty ImagesRecent heatwaves have brought Europe to a turning point with air-conditionersSteven Scholtysek, 36, is no stranger to Europe’s heatwaves. The German engineer has lived through sweltering summers since his childhood.But this year the heat has been especially unbearable. Western Europe has experienced its hottest June on record, and cities across Germany saw temperatures rise above 40C (104F). The region is bracing for more heatwaves before the summer ends.To make things worse, a few months ago Scholtysek moved into an attic apartment – the kind that’s notorious for overheating.”It’s not possible to live a normal life in those flats, below…
Getty ImagesDavid Bowie, pictured around 1966, was known as Davie Jones in the earlier part of his music careerTen unreleased tracks by David Bowie are set to be shared with the public, recorded in the early part of his career when he was known as Davie Jones. David Bowie: The Shel Talmy Recordings has been billed by the singer’s label as “the most complete collection of tracks recorded by a nascent David Bowie” with his then-producer Shel Talmy.The collection includes contributions from guitarist Jimmy Page, who would go on to form Led Zeppelin, and pianist Nicky Hopkins, who also worked…
Getty ImagesA White House teleprompter operator is being investigated over allegedly using inside information to place bets and make nearly $100,000 on US President Donald Trump’s speeches. Gabriel Perez, who had worked at the White House since 2016, is accused of placing bets on words the president would use during major public addresses, including the State of the Union speech.The trades were made on Kalshi, a prediction markets platform where users can bet on real-world events. The firm confirmed it reported the activity to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates the platform.Kalshi froze Perez’s account before any profits…
WASHINGTON (news agencies) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol in a way that’s previously only been available with expensive, injectable drugs.The drug from Merck was OK’d on Thursday for patients with artery-clogging cholesterol that persists even after taking statins, the standard medications for cutting heart attack risk. Merck will market its pill under the brand name Lipfendra.It’s the first noninjectable medication that works by blocking a liver protein called PCSK9. That protein limits the body’s ability to clear cholesterol from the blood, and biotech injectables targeting it have been available…
Fifa ‘assessing reports’ over Falklands bannerFifa is “assessing the match reports” before deciding whether to punish Argentina after players held a banner in support of their country’s claims to the Falkland Islands.1 hr agoWorld Cup
Anadolu via Getty ImagesMore than 800 wildfires are burning across Canada, with air quality alerts now extending south into multiple US states. The air quality in large parts of the northern states of Michigan and Minnesota is deemed “hazardous” by the US Air Quality Index program, with people recommended to stay indoors.Alerts span the Upper Midwest, the Great Lakes region and into the northeast, the US national weather service (NOAA) said in an update on Thursday. There are currently 858 fires actively burning in Canada, including 30 new fires on Thursday, according to the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System.The vast…
EPARelatives of the victims hugged each other after the verdicts were read outThe former head of Italy’s motorway operator has been given a 12-year prison sentence over the collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge in August 2018.Prosecutors had asked for a far longer jail term for Giovanni Castellucci, ex-chief executive of Autostrade per l’Italia (Aspi).Forty-three people died when the motorway bridge running through the city came down in a rain storm at the height of the holiday season, sending cars and lorries plummeting to the ground.Castellucci, who is already serving a six-year jail term for a 2013 road disaster, was one…
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US military footage shows strike on ship in the GulfThe US has attacked an oil tanker in the Gulf, which it said was heading towards Iran’s largest oil export terminal, as it reimposed a blockade of Iranian ports.US Central Command (Centcom) said on Wednesday that Belma “ignored multiple warnings” as it was heading towards the Kharg Island oil terminal and an aircraft disabled the tanker by “firing Hellfire missiles into the ship’s smokestack”.President Donald Trump reintroduced a blockade of Iranian ports on Tuesday, in response to a series of alleged Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz…