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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Sarah, Duchess of York thinks she has found the secret to swelling the coffers of her new Trust - by flogging some tea and biscuits.

As Beijing brings in another that regulates internet infomercials and stops teens buying their tat

Imagine if Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google supremo Sundar Pichai or Like-seeker-in-chief Mark Zuckerberg gave a major speech that heartily endorsed new government regulations - even though they make business harder - and argued they’re necessary, timely, and just.…

Alicia Schoroth, from Ontario, spent years struggling with her weight - but after her dad died from diabetes when she was 26, she decided to make a change.

The Brisbane woman raged that the cheapness of the gift 'hurt' a lot and was a 'slap in the face' after inviting her pal to her 'exclusive' ceremony and reception.

Andrew Marr has joined the swathes of outraged critics demanding The Crown include a disclaimer warning that many key scenes never happened or are distortions of the truth.

I started early with a walk across St James's Park to the Royal Academy and met Antonia Fraser, Charles Saumarez Smith then letting us in early to the David Hockney exhibition.

The UK normally imports more than one million Nordmann Fir trees each year from what is Europe's largest festive tree producer.

Apple said on Monday that companies that offer digital classes or virtual events through iPhone apps won't have to use Apple's App Store in-app purchases through June 2021, enabling them to charge their customers directly without Apple's 30% commission fee. CNBC reports: Apple said the extension was to help businesses by giving them more time to transition in-person events to digital events during the Covid-19 pandemic. "Although apps are required to offer any paid online group event experiences (one-to-few and one-to-many realtime experiences) through in-app purchase in accordance with App Store Review guideline 3.1.1, we temporarily deferred this requirement with an original deadline of December 2020," Apple wrote on its developer blog. "To allow additional time for developing in-app purchase solutions, this deadline has been extended to June 30, 2021." Last week, Apple announced that it planned to reduce its commission to 15% for app developers making under $1 million on Apple's platforms in 2021.

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From December 15, the 'test to release' plan will allow arrivals from high-risk destinations to get a private coronavirus test after a five-day self-isolation period.

Essex publican Adam Brooks says England's new tier system is 'throwing pubs to the wolves for no good scientific reason' as restrictions on hospitality remain tight.

DOUGLAS MURRAY: In a joint investigation with the Taxpayers' Alliance, the Mail this week reveals that billions of pounds of our cash has been squandered by the public sector.

Researchers from the State University of New York at Albany explained how Covid-19 could be changing the behaviour of those it infects to make them more likely to pass it on to others.

Olive Buller worked at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, during the First World War. She was identified by her granddaughter Carol Jephson in photographs shown on BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

Institutions should also train staff and students to understand 'microaggressions' - which are 'subtle, less overt forms of racism' - according to Universities UK.

Melania Trump welcomed the White House Christmas Tree on Monday as the Trumps prepare to kick off their final holiday season at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  

An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: A first-of-its-kind exploratory study, led by researchers from Yale School of Medicine, has found a single dose of the psychedelic psilocybin can reduce migraine frequency by 50 percent for a least two weeks. The preliminary trial was small, with follow-up work necessary to validate the results, but the promising findings suggest great potential for psychedelics to treat migraines and cluster headaches. A new study, published in the journal Neurotherapeutics, is offering the first double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study on the effects of a moderate psilocybin dose on migraine frequency and severity. The research is only preliminary and small but its results are deeply encouraging. Ten migraine sufferers were recruited for the trial. Each subject completed two sessions, one with a placebo and one with a moderate psilocybin dose. Headache diaries were used to track headache frequency and severity in the two weeks leading up to, and following, each experimental session. "Compared to placebo, a single administration of psilocybin reduced migraine frequency by about half over the two weeks measured," explains corresponding author on the new study Emmanuelle Schindler, in an email to New Atlas. "In addition, when migraine attacks did occur in those two weeks, pain intensity and functional impairment during attacks were reduced by approximately 30 percent each." Perhaps the most intriguing finding from this small study was the lack of any correlation between the subjective strength of the psychedelic experience and the therapeutic effect. Prior trials using psilocybin to treat depression or addiction have suggested the overwhelming magnitude of a psychedelic experience seems to be fundamentally entwined with its therapeutic efficacy. So essentially, the more powerful the experience the better the result. But unexpectedly, this migraine/psilocybin trial did not detect that association. In fact, those subjects reporting the highest scores on a self-reported altered state of consciousness scale showed some of the smaller reductions in migraine burden. What this intriguingly suggests is that, in the case of psilocybin for migraine, it may be possible to separate out the drug's psychotropic effects from its therapeutic effects. This could be achieved either by exploring microdoses and sub-hallucinogenic doses, or even homing in on the mechanism by which the drug is helping prevent migraines and finding a new way to pharmacologically target it.

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Emily Murphy, the GSA administrator, finally caved early Monday evening and wrote to Biden saying he can get transition resources - just after Michigan certified the Democrat's victory there.

Around 20 per cent of the 3.5 million anaesthetics given in the NHS each year are local or regional anaesthetics, which just numb a specific area.

Results of a small trial suggest phenelzine, which treats depression (by altering levels of brain chemicals that regulate mood) can shrink tumours in men whose prostate cancer has returned.

Thousands of pubs and restaurants fear new coronavirus restrictions in England will be a 'death sentence,' critics said after Boris Johnson announced a regional tiered system on Monday.