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- Amazon fires: 'Our house is burning', Macron warns ahead of G7 23 August, 2019The French president's call for the issue to be discussed at the G7 summit angers Brazil’s president.
- Four-in-one pill prevents third of heart problems 23 August, 2019The drug combination has huge potential and would cost just "pennies a day", say the researchers.
- Facial recognition technology aims to cut passport queue times 22 August, 2019The UK Home Office is considering a system which would let you walk through immigration without showing your passport.
- Edinburgh Fringe female performers 'sexually harassed' 22 August, 2019Women report being groped and subjected to lewd comments while out promoting their shows.
- Bake Off judge Prue Leith joins hospital food improvement review 22 August, 2019The celebrity chef will help set new quality standards as part of the government's review of hospital food.
- Brexit: Backstop indispensable, Macron tells Johnson 22 August, 2019PM meets French president in Paris, insisting Brexit impasse can be broken "with energy and creativity".
- August bank holiday 2019: Where to avoid on roads and rail 23 August, 2019Traffic is expected to peak on Friday as holidaymakers share the roads with commuter traffic.
- Russian nuclear accident: Medics fear 'radioactive patients' 22 August, 2019Arctic hospital staff did not know that military test victims were irradiated, the BBC learns.
- Critically-ill British citizen 'stuck in Oman' 23 August, 2019David Hughes, who has months to live, says the British embassy has provided little help to get him home.
- Ryanair rated 'greedy and arrogant' by customers 22 August, 2019Ryanair has been rated worst for customer service out of 100 big British brands, according to Which?.
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