More than a fifth of adults not looking for work

2 minutes ago About sharing By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News More than a fifth of adults in the UK were deemed not to be actively looking for work between November and January, official figures suggest. The UK’s economic inactivity rate was 21.8% in the three-month period, higher than a year earlier, the Office…

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Artists bid to make Aids memorial near Diana ward

1 hour ago About sharing Princess Diana visited the HIV/Aids ward in the former Middlesex Hospital in 1987 By Josh Parry LGBT & Identity Producer A shortlist of artists competing to create London’s first permanent Aids memorial has been announced. The monument will be situated near the former site of Middlesex Hospital, the UK’s first…

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US boosts funding for Haiti security mission

24 minutes ago About sharing A coalition of gangs in Haiti have united in an attack against the state By Will Grant, Central America correspondent & James Gregory BBC News The US says it will contribute a further $100m (£78m) to an international security force in Haiti as violence grips the country. US Secretary of…

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Bananas to cost more as climate warms, says expert

19 minutes ago About sharing By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Bananas are set to get more expensive as climate change hits a much-loved fruit, one of the world’s top experts from the industry tells BBC News. Pascal Liu, senior economist at the World Banana Forum, says climate impacts pose an “enormous threat” to supply, compounding…

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