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Pound falls to lowest level since 1985 against dollar – as it happened

IFS boss says Liz Truss’s plans to freeze energy bills ‘very poorly targeted’; Putin threatens to cut off energy supplies if price caps are imposed; UK housing market shows signs of slowing

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2022

Subdued by Covid curbs, Srishti becomes WIM after 3-year wait

NAGPUR: Srishti Pandey will finally heave a sigh of relief. A full 1,042 days after she scored her first WIM norm in the 2019 junior national championship and 278 days after clearing all the three norms in Serbia, Srishti became Nagpur's third and India's latest Woman International Master (WIM) in…

The Times of India · Sep 7, 2022

Nottingham man loses more than 10 stone in 9 months after 'dreading seeing people face-to-face'

Mark Barry has been named 'slimmer of the year'

Nottingham Post · Sep 7, 2022

The research on: Reducing health worker burnout

Quality research evidence points to what’s needed at both an individual and organisational level to stem the tide of burnt out health workers.

360info · Sep 7, 2022

Jim Chalmers warns GDP figures don't 'tell the full story about our economy' — as it happened

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said while the latest economic growth figures are "solid", they don't show the increasing financial pressures facing Australians. Look back on Wednesday's updates.

ABC News · Sep 7, 2022

The latest COVID-19 case numbers from around the states and territories

Here's a quick wrap of today's COVID statistics from each Australian jurisdiction.

ABC News · Sep 7, 2022

Netflix and Amazon cut spend on UK shows as British broadcasters fight back

BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 spent record £1.45bn last year on shows from UK production companies

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022

An up and coming industry

Organised by happening, Decembell and What If, Bangkok Illustration Fair 2022 (BKKIF) returns for its second year at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre tomorrow and runs until Sunday. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, last year BKKIF presented illustrations online at bangkokillustrationfair.com.

Bangkok Post · Sep 6, 2022

Sophie Cunningham's pandemic novel admits literature can't save us – but treasures it for trying

“How good are novels!” So thinks protagonist Alice Fox in This Devastating Fever, the third novel from former publisher Sophie Cunningham. Alice is preparing to chair a panel at a writers’ festival, just as Covid-19 hits the headlines in March 2020.

The Conversation · Sep 6, 2022

Key takeaways from Liz Truss’s first speech as prime minister

From praise for Boris Johnson, to blaming Putin for energy price rises, here is what we can gather from her brief address

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022