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£100 contactless card limit to be lifted

Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless car...

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£100 contactless card limit to be lifted

Card providers can decide whether to offer unlimited payments on contactless car...

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French court rejects Shein website suspension over childlike sex dolls

The fast-fashion giant welcomed the judgement and said its priority remains prot...

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Norway's crown princess likely needs lung transplant, palace says

Mette-Marit has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that stiffens the lungs, making it...

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UN-backed experts say Gaza food supplies improving but 100,000 still in 'catastrophic conditions'

Israel says the report "doesn't reflect the reality" and ignores the volume of a...

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Young people will feel burden of UK's ageing society, report suggests

The House of Lords said raising the state pension age and increasing immigration...

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Uganda prison officer sacked for 'politicking' on TikTok

Ugandan law requires public servants to remain politically neutral and bars them...

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Will the US TikTok deal make it safer but less relevant?

The key to the app's success - its algorithm - is to be retrained on US data. Wi...

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EU agrees €90bn loan for Ukraine but without using Russian assets

EU leaders said the loan would be repayable only when Russia paid reparations fo...

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Millions head home for Christmas on busiest day of festive getaway

Road, rail and air travellers are being advised to allow extra time for travel a...

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Retail sales fall as Black Friday deals fail to lure shoppers

Supermarket sales fell for the fourth month in a row, while discounts did not li...

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South Africa defiant after US threatens 'consequences' over refugee centre raid

South Africa has accused the US of employing Kenyans without work permits to pro...

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Bangladesh newspaper staff recall 'gasping for air' as offices set ablaze

The fresh protests are sparked by the death of one of the leaders of protests th...

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Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m

The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to...

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WH Smith probed by regulator over accounting error

The retailer says it plans to claw back bonuses awarded to executives at its Nor...

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What does TikTok's deal mean for America's users?

The BBC's Asia business correspondent says it is still unclear what sort of expe...

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US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting

The suspect in the university shooting and the murder of an MIT professor entere...

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TikTok owner signs deal to avoid US ban

The deals would end years of efforts by Washington to force ByteDance to sell it...

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TikTok owner signs deal to avoid US ban

The deals would end years of efforts by Washington to force ByteDance to sell it...

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A 45% school bus fare hike is too much, says dad

Ambi Ambituuni now expects to pay more than £300 a term for his daughter's bus ...

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