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Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax changes encourage more people to invest in previously unloved product The government’s “inheritance tax raid” on pensions has helped drive sales of retirement annuities to new highs.Industry data this week revealed they enjoyed a “record-breaking” 2025, with sales growing by 4% to £7.4bn and the average amount invested in an annuity surpassing £80,000 for the first time. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has determined it is safe for Yemenis to return to their war-torn country. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Today's participants include top US diplomat, Ukraine's president, British prime minister and Syria's foreign minister.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Climate shocks and deforestation are reshaping cocoa supply and pushing prices into a more volatile era.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Interim leader Muhammad Yunus congratulates Rahman for 'the landslide victory of his party'.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Exclusive: High levels of banned ‘forever chemical’ have been detected in rivers and groundwater at 25 sitesA string of toxic pollution hotspots has been uncovered across Cumbria and Lancashire, with high levels of the banned cancer-causing “forever chemical” Pfos detected in rivers and groundwater at 25 sites.The contamination, spread across a large area, was uncovered by Watershed Investigations and the Guardian after a freedom of information request revealed high concentrations […]

As calls for the former prince to cooperate with police become deafening, this may be the reckoning Andrew cannot outrunGordon Brown is a man who gets into the detail.In office, and since then, he has applied his forensic mind to the matters that concern him. Lately, he has been focused on the Epstein files. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

For centuries in Ireland lifting huge boulders was a way to test strength and bond communities, says Instagram sensation Indiana StonesDavid Keohan surveyed the County Waterford beach and spotted a familiar mound half-buried in sand: an oval-shaped limestone boulder. It weighed about 115kg.He wedged it loose with a crowbar, wiped it dry with a cloth, dusted his hands with chalk and paused to gaze at the Irish Sea, as if […]