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Contingency plans are in place to push back next year's World Cup in England to 2022 should coronavirus make staging the tournament impractical. Organisers remain confident the event - which kicks off with England versus Samoa in…
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Unlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready. While British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at…
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YouTube has announced it will test a beta version of its new TikTok rival in India. YouTube Shorts will limit videos to 15 seconds, and the platform will feature creator tools that are similar to Chinese-owned TikTok's. India banned…
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Small businesses have been thrown a lifeline after the High Court ruled some insurers should have paid out for losses caused by lockdown. Judges ruled that the disease clauses in some business interruption policies should have meant…
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South Korean tech firm LG has unveiled a smartphone with a larger screen which swivels out to reveal a second, smaller one underneath.The Wing's second screen can either act independently of the larger screen while it is displaying a film,…
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Manufacturer Nikola has admitted a promotional video on YouTube shows its hydrogen-powered lorry rolling downhill rather than moving under its own power.The video, posted by founder Trevor Milton in January 2018 and viewed more than…
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) says the Covid-19 pandemic has pulled the region's developing economies into recession. It is the first time in six decades that "developing Asia" - a designation that includes 45 countries - has seen a…
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Two women affected by controversial changes to the state pension age have lost their Court of Appeal challenge. Julie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63, backed by campaign group BackTo60, challenged the changes after losing a High Court…
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The UK unemployment rate has risen to its highest level for two years, official figures show. The unemployment rate grew to 4.1% in the three months to July, compared with 3.9% previously. Young people were particularly hard hit,…
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Plans for a £15-£20bn nuclear power plant in Wales have been scrapped. Work on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK…
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