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10 movies for summer 2023: From ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Barbie’ to some smaller gems

Persistent COVID cases aside: The pandemic must be over, because look at “The Super Mario Bros. Movie!” It’s made $1.2 billion worldwide. Where babysitter movies point the way to recovery — the movies that serve as babysitters, that is — an entire entertainment industry prays for many more to follow.

Chicago Tribune

The man who changed his life during the Covid lockdowns, lost six stone and turned a childhood hobby into a business

Gavin Davies has opened The Collector Sector in Ebbw Vale offering a variety of collectable cards, plushies and more

Wales Online

Australia set to change visa rules to make it even easier for Brits to move

The UK and Australian governments have are set to allow young Brits on the ‘Working Holiday Maker’ visa to stay Down Under for three years and avoid certain kind of work if they want

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Italian book-reading hit 22-year low in 2022, after COVID pick up

Less than 40% of Italians read a book for pleasure last year, data showed on Thursday, the lowest figure for 22 years, but children were more avid readers than their parents.

Reuters

Covid contracts: messages reveal extent of Tory donor access to Matt Hancock

Two major donors used ministerial access to promote firms offering Covid services with which they were involved

The Guardian - UK

Drugs boss 'Green Champ' involved in crime on 'vast' scale was handed Covid loan by government

Lee Walsh has been jailed for 14 years

Manchester Evening News

5 times Patrice Evra has caused chaos after latest controversy at Man City

Former Man United player Patrice Evra retired as a professional football player in 2018, but his tendency to court controversy has continued into his punditry career

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Seniors got COVID tests they didn't order in Medicare scam. Could more fraud follow?

Some seniors got dozens of COVID tests they never ordered. Bad actors may have used seniors' Medicare information to improperly bill the federal government — and could do it again, investigators say.

WEKU

Dining across the divide: ‘She is a big conspiracy theorist – I came out thinking, what was that?’

One thinks Covid is a hoax or a bioweapon, the other … disagrees. Can they find any common ground?

The Guardian - UK

Kate Garraway pictured joining husband Derek Draper for pub outing with parents

The Good Morning Britain host's husband Derek was hospitalised after contracting Covid-19 several years ago and still requires around-the-clock care

Daily Mirror

Met chief Sir Mark Rowley accuses CPS of failing victims by ‘cherry-picking easy cases’

‘We need to target difficult cases and let juries not lawyers decide’, Sir Mark Rowley said

Evening Standard

Mary McNamara: One of TV's most acclaimed shows took seven years off. It was planned all along

Even considering the interruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the often random timing of British television, seven years seems a long time to wait between seasons of a series.

Los Angeles Times

New Covid strain mild but children need watching

A new strain of Covid-19 has not proved to be severe, but it could still spread among children as the school term resumes, according to health authorities.

Bangkok Post

Mishandled baggage rate almost doubled globally in 2022 as airlines scrambled after Covid

New statistics lay bare the extent of the disruption during the ‘summer of lost luggage’

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"I'm young and sober like Tom Holland - I still love to go to the pub and live the student life"

Phoebe Pallot, 21, decided to give up alcohol after growing reliant on a glass of wine to get to sleep during the Covid lockdowns

Daily Mirror

Coach full of tourists turned away after driving 150 miles to 'Britain's best beach'

The tourist travelled from Birmingham to Porth Iago, north Wales, which has been an attraction for visitors to the area since the 1970s, but its popularity has soared since the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

EasyJet set to profit as travellers cut down on takeaways and new clothes to pay for trips

Britain’s biggest budget airline will open Birmingham base as carriers battle for the summer of 2024

Daily Record

Dumfries coworking hard could be replicated across Scotland

Crichton Central opened in the aftermath of Covid-19 lockdowns, with the space available for both tenants on the estate and others

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Budget 2023: Jibes and jabs from the Opposition

From the “no frills” Budget to the “blowout” Budget, the speeches in the House on Thursday had plenty of one-liners and no shortage of over-used catchphrases. Political editor Jo Moir was there to watch it all.

The Hindu

COVID-19 | India records 906 fresh cases; active caseload declines to 10,179

India witnessed a single-day rise of 906 new COVID-19 cases as the active cases declined to 10,179, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on May 18.

The Independent UK

The pandemic widened gaps in reading. Can one teacher 'do something about that'?

The COVID-19 pandemic upended learning across the United States

The Guardian - AU

The Australian economy lost 27,100 full-time jobs in April as unemployment rose to 3.7%

UBS economist says jobs report ‘weaker than expected’ and makes an RBA rate hike in June ‘unlikely’

Chicago Sun-Times

Metra dreams big for Rock Island line’s future, but money’s an issue

As COVID funds are set to expire, Metra seeks ways to keep services attractive to a ridership increasingly different from the 9-to-5 Loop commuters that once formed its base.

Daily Mirror

China 'tried to keep Covid outbreak a secret' and first death earlier than believed

A Senate investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has presented further circumstantial evidence linking the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the leak - though admits there's no "smoking gun"

Bangkok Post

More transmissible Omicron variants pop up

The Centre for Medical Genomics said Thailand has one case of XBB.1.16.1.1 or "FU.1", the latest Covid-19 sub-variant that is 50% more transmissible than XBB.1.16.

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