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Gift bags are boring, but sometimes your loved ones ask for things for Christmas that are just impossible to wrap. Sure, you could just get a box from the customer service counter, but it’s the holidays and lines are long and we’re tired. Prank Packs solve a common problem in a hilarious way. Each box…

IAm Bank founder Lee Travers appearing on digital financial channel Cheddar. Cheddar / screengrab A former friend of IAm Bank founder Lee Travers claims he gave him his life savings to invest in shares in 2011. The former friend says he has been unable to retrieve either the shares or the money despite repeated attempts.…

Norway’s parliament has voted to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment to addicts instead. 133 seats out of 175 voted in favour of decriminalising illegal drugs across the country. According to Norway’s 2017 Country Drug Report, 266 people died from drug-related deaths this year. Instead of being handed a prison sentence, drug users would be given…

CSX CEO Hunter Harrison has died, the company announced on Saturday. He was 73. Harrison’s death comes just a day after the transportation company announced that he had been placed on medical leave due to an unspecified illness, causing shares in the nation’s third-largest railway carrier to plummet. Harrison died in Wellington, Fla., from “unexpectedly…

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MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — Residents piled into cars and fled on Saturday, turning downtown Santa Barbara into « a ghost town » as surging winds drove one of the biggest fires in California’s history toward the city and the nearby wealthy enclave of Montecito. The mandatory evacuations around Montecito and neighboring Summerland came as winds that had…

The British public has swung behind staying in the EU by its largest margin since the referendum, with those backing Remain outstripping Leavers by ten points, a new poll has revealed. The exclusive survey for The Independent by BMG Research showed 51 per cent now back remaining in the union, while 41 per cent want Brexit.…

Under the latest outline released Friday night, corporations would enjoy a big drop in the tax rate on their profits, but would give up dozens of deductions, exemptions and exclusions that lower their tax bill. Individuals would also see their tax rates lowered, but would give up some important tax breaks that benefit those at…

« In the Philippines, Noche Buena, the mother of Christmas meals, usually starts at 12am Christmas Day. Yes, we stay up all Christmas Eve so we can feast come midnight. The star of the meal is usually the fiesta ham. For carbs, we serve rice and Pinoy-style spaghetti. Many of us also serve chicken, in either…

Innenminister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, in der nächsten Bundesregierung einen Antisemitismus-Beauftragten einzusetzen. Anlass sei die zunehmende Gewalt gegen Jüdinnen und Juden in Deutschland, sagte de Maizière im Gespräch mit der Zeitung Bild am Sonntag (BamS). « Jede an­ti­se­mi­tisch mo­ti­vier­te Straf­tat ist eine zu viel und eine Schan­de für unser Land ». Der unabhängige…