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The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics

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Updated at 9:47 a.m. ET on May 14, 2024

No pope has ever set foot in China, but 10 years ago, Francis came the closest. On a flight to South Korea in August 2014, he became the first Vicar of Christ to enter Chinese airspace. Apparently that wasn’t enough. “Do I want to go to China?” Francis mused a few days later to those of us journalists accompanying him on his flight back to Rome. “Of course: Tomorrow!”

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Buy-to-let landlords are using limited companies to cut tax… but it could actually be costing them MORE

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In recent years increasing numbers of buy-to-let investors have been buying properties via a limited company, rather than in their own personal name.

Last year alone, landlords set up a record 50,004 companies to hold buy-to-let properties, according to analysis by estate agents Hamptons.

There are a total of 615,077 buy-to-lets owned in company structures in the UK, an 82 per cent increase since the end of 2016. 

Limited company surge: More than two-thirds of existing buy-to-let companies were set

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CBD oil massages, a Michelin-listed restaurant and villas costing £6,900 a night: Inside The White Lotus’ most spectacular hotel yet as filming of third season starts at five-star Thai resort

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The first thing you notice on arrival at the grand, porticoed entrance of the Four Seasons Resort in Thailand’s Koh Samui are the monkeys. 

They are everywhere – stone monkey statues proffering welcome garlands, cheeky terracotta monkeys giving you the thumbs up from plant pots, laconic stone apes draped over walls, monkey water-features spouting streams into private villa pools.

So don’t be surprised to find that monkeys are a recurring theme in the third series of hit TV show The

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Meghan Markle opts for chic black outfit and gold Cartier jewellery costing an eye-watering £125,000 to attend Vancouver Canucks ice hockey game with Prince Harry

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Meghan Markle donned an effortlessly chic ensemble costing approximately £125,277 ($157,030) as she attended an ice hockey game in Vancouver last night.

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, opted for a casual yet sleek look in all-black attire, including ‘Serge’ bootcut trousers from French American brand Altuzarra – available for £555 ($695). She matched the elegant bottoms with a simple black jumper for the occasion.

But it was Meghan’s jewellery that stole the show yesterday evening as she watched the Canucks

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Heat Is Costing the U.S. Economy Billions in Lost Productivity

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As much of the United States swelters under record heat, Amazon drivers and warehouse workers have gone on strike in part to protest working conditions that can exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

On triple-digit days in Orlando, utility crews are postponing checks for gas leaks, since digging outdoors dressed in heavy safety gear could endanger their lives. Even in Michigan, on the nation’s northern border, construction crews are working shortened days because of heat.

Now that climate change has raised the

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Pension transfer delays are costing Britons and leaving them ‘financially exposed’ | Personal Finance | Finance

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Britons are waiting an average of one month to complete a transfer of their pension funds between providers, a new report has found.

However, delays from ceding companies – pension scheme members’ existing providers – transferring money to an alternative provider can be stressful and “financially detrimental”, Lily Megson, policy director at independent retirement advisor My Pension Expert has said.

Ms Megson said: “Our data, spanning almost 4,000 pension transfers, clearly demonstrates that retirement planners in the UK are having

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Why IS the NHS doing less but costing you MORE?

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Hospitals are still performing fewer operations and scans each month than before Covid, despite being given billions more taxpayer cash.

Analysis shows the health service in England carried out 600,000 fewer procedures in the first nine months of 2022, compared to the same period in 2019.

The slump in activity, noted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has been logged even though its budget grew by nearly £30billion over the same period and fewer people than expected joined the queue

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Delays to ambulance handovers at A&E ‘are costing lives’ in scandal affecting up to 160,000 a year

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Patients in ambulances are dying or suffering harm because of the increasingly long wait times to hand them over to A&E staff, it was claimed.

A damning report revealed up to 160,000 patients each year may be affected due to the long periods waiting to be admitted. Of these, about 12,000 suffer ‘severe harm’, according to the document written by NHS ambulance bosses

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