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Smokers and ex-smokers who have quit report being in more pain than people who have never smoked. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36fX8G6

Enthusiasts rave about cold water swimming - but the lifeguards must be ready to save lives in icy water. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36ebCGp

While lots of people are celebrating the start of 2020, it's a different year altogether for some. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2FcfLPi

Their petition gained more than 180,000 signatures and led to a change in the law. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2uadQbZ

Craig Earley turned to bodybuilding after he was seriously injured in a car crash. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ZFEZ1U

Said Jammal has spent 20 years building the family's unusual home in the Nigerian capital Abuja. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36qn6qo

We tend to copy the way our friends and family behave, potentially leading us to put on weight or even divorce. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MIDkDu

An increasing number of older people are turning to dating apps for mature people, in a quest for love. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/36dW9q9

A group of viruses, of which measles is one, are adept at jumping to species barrier. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37rsXMw

LGBT activists are mounting legal battles against the Caribbean's colonial-era homophobic laws. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2sBFJcu

Four millennials on being the first black person some people meet, and other issues for black tourists. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37uoJnn

Players say the virtual reality game makes them happier and healthier. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37sD8Aa

Christmas is over, it's dark and cold - but there are plenty of bright spots on the horizon. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QABINp

New research suggests most people still want to book package holidays despite what happened after the collapse of Thomas Cook. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2rIc40I

Protesters angry about U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, setting off a confrontation with guards and posing a new challenge for U.S. President Donald Trump. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/36fVtQS

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said late on Tuesday it will investigate a fatal Dec. 29 Tesla Inc crash in Los Angeles that killed two people. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/39sMk9z

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into nighttime sightings of unidentified drones flying in formation over rural northeastern Colorado and southwest Nebraska over the last two weeks, the agency said on Tuesday. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2SH6qXR

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CBN News has learned a massive sold-out event is happening New Year's Day at East Rutherford, New Jersey's MetLife Stadium where the reading of the entire Jewish Talmud will be concluded after 7 and 1/3 years. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2ua9txB

"Begin cementing our unity one brick at a time," Archbishop of Canterbury says in new year message. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qb675T

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The Link network should raise the fee it pays cash machine operators, say convenience store owners. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MErOZW

Protests in Hong Kong, Chile and the Middle East all shared an online presence which helped connect the movements. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/37oZNO1

Sue Hopkins stuck by her son Martin who has been a drug addict for most of his adult life. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39tKd5m

From the ridiculous to the more ridiculous, the weird stories that caught the eye this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39ndZch

Social media scandals dominate the list of the most-read news stories by the Tech desk this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/359u169

Children found the exits locked as they tried to escape what they thought was a fire in the cinema. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2F5FKYC

The year of treating the untreatable: 2019 breakthroughs that could transform medicine. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/35dMvSS

The firm admits life will be "difficult" after the Trump administration banned the firm in the US. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2SBkm5L

Social media scandals dominate the list of the most-read news stories by the Tech desk this year. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/359u169

It was a year of unrest and upheaval, with protests in Hong Kong, and US-China trade tensions. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2F9pN3T

The Link network should raise the fee it pays cash machine operators, say convenience store owners. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2MErOZW

A gunman wearing a wig and fake beard raised immediate suspicion when he walked into a church service in Texas before opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people, a volunteer security member who shot the assailant said on Monday. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/35chEpT

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The government says it will boost pay by more than four times the rate of inflation. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SIsGR5

More than 800 sightings of whales, dolphins and seals have been logged in British waters this year. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MK4OJ3

The government says it will boost pay by more than four times the rate of inflation. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2SIsGR5

What did we buy and what did we leave on the shelf during a decade of invention and changing habits? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Q9OX8N

People diagnosed with autism in adulthood describe growing up believing they were "bad" or "alien". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/353DXhz

How two friends created an online storytelling platform with more than 80 million global users. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/39qsBHx

Just before her first "handiversary", transplant miracle Cor Hutton explains why the smallest things mean so much. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2QbrhRz

U.S. officials said on Sunday that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that "additional actions" may still be taken in the region to defend U.S. interests. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2F6lQwE

Yang Zhaoyu quit his job in a big Chinese city nine months ago and moved to a small community that preaches sustainable living and mindful consumption. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2F68nVS

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With some blockbuster space missions underway, 2019 saw some amazing images beamed back to Earth. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SCCSuA

Artists and everyday people send images of life outside prison to inmates in solitary confinement. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2ZBapXx

Hydrogen-powered drones have several advantages to lithium ion-powered ones, says Dr Enass Abo-Hamed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qyv76b

Grime's prospects were shaky in 2010, but the genre has ended the decade triumphantly. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MHcNGN

Match of the Day pundits Ian Wright and Martin Keown discuss changing the offside rule in light of recent VAR controversies in the Premier League. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Qagqr4

Rangers win at Celtic Park for the first time in nine years and cut the gap at the top to two points, with a game in hand. (UK only) from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2SBnMW7

Hydrogen-powered drones have several advantages to lithium ion-powered ones, says Dr Enass Abo-Hamed. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Qyv76b

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called at a ruling party meeting for "positive and offensive measures" to ensure security ahead of a year-end deadline he has set for denuclearization talks with the United States, state media KCNA said on Monday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Q8CZw6

U.S. President Donald Trump was briefed by his top national security advisers on Sunday on U.S. airstrikes against what U.S. officials said was an Iran-sponsored group in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2F2p2cN

Bahrain expressed support for strikes conducted by the United States targeting Kataib Hezbollah facilities in Iraq and Syria, Bahrain's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2F2ZQ67

Democratic Representative John Lewis, a hero of the U.S. civil rights movement, said on Sunday he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2Q8JQFZ