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Germany on brink of recession as business confidence nosedives

Germany’s economy is on the brink of recession after business confidence plunged to its lowest level in seven years. The ifo Institute, a Munich-based research group, said: “Worry lines among German business leaders are getting deeper and deeper.” Its monthly confidence index fell to just 94.3 points in August, down from 95.8 in July, the weakest reading since November 2012. […]

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Trump: China ‘really wants to make a deal’ on trade

BIARRITZ, France — President Donald Trump, under pressure to scale back a US-China trade war partly blamed for a global economic slowdown, claimed Monday that the two sides will begin serious negotiations soon. Trump said his trade negotiators had received two “very good calls” from China Sunday, hours after Trump waffled on whether he regretted the one-upmanship on tariffs Friday. […]

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Mother, 42, is revealed as Set for Life lottery winner

Mother-of-two, 42, who’ll get £10,000 EVERY MONTH for the next 30 years on the Set For Life lottery thought she’d only won a fiver after using the last £1.50 in her online account to buy winning ticket Vicky Mitchell, from Halifax, matched all five main numbers and the Life Ball   Administrative assistant used last £1.50 in her online account to buy […]

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Amazon fires see Brazil load giant Hercules warplanes with thousands of gallons of water in desperate bid to halt 9,000 separate blazes

GIANT Hercules warplanes are now being used to dump thousands of gallons of water onto more than 9,000 wild fires in the Amazon. The emergency move comes amid mounting fury over the shocking ongoing destruction of the planet's largest tropical rain forest. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro ordered the sudden military intervention to combat multiple blazes now raging out of control. A […]

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Trump took a page out of the WWE’s playbook

When you attend one of his rallies, as I did last week in New Hampshire, it is obvious that Donald Trump has modeled his presidential persona on WWE pro-wrestling. The banter, the jokes, the trash talking, the catch phrases, the crowd manipulation, the belligerent patriotism, the villain-slamming: It’s all straight out of a preordained WWE storyline. Trump applies the patriot […]

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Charity watchdog probes £1m cost of Oxford dons’ bid to kick out dean

Charity watchdog probes £1m cost of Oxford dons’ bid to kick out dean after his ‘aggressive and bullying’ demands for increase on £90,000-a-year pay The Very Reverend Martyn Percy, 57, was suspended on full pay last September    The charges weren’t upheld and the college announced he would be returning  His supporters claim a clique of ‘stuffy, bullying dons’ tried to […]

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