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Busy office workers are managing to squeeze in a meagre 16 minutes a day for lunch, a study has found. Researchers found despite having a full hour to enjoy a much-deserved break, many take a quarter of this period to eat, and nearly half will typically dine ‘al-desko’ at precisely 12.43pm. One in 10 admitted eating the same meal for lunch EVERY day, with the most popular reoccurring choices being a plain cheese sandwich or a meaty ham sandwich. And...

Yesterday, Extinction Rebellion met with Sir Michael Dixon, director of the Natural History Museum, and his senior staff to ask them to: cancel the Petroleum Group dinner they're hosting on Thursday 20 June, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency and cut any and all ties with the fossil fuel industry, including renaming the Hintze Hall. The Museum rejected Extinction Rebellion’s requests, saying that the two organisations have different theories of change. Sir Michael Dixon outlined the museum’s approach of engaging...

Brexit risks are not priced in by bond markets and Britain's exit from the European Union could turn more bitter than expected, Anthony Linehan deputy director at Ireland's debt management agency warned on Wednesday. "To me (Brexit) is an area that isn't priced into markets and it can't be because no one knows what it looks like, even a hard Brexit," he said, speaking at a conference in London. "The one thing that worries me is, it's like a divorce,...

Three Russians and a Ukrainian will face murder charges for the July 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in which 298 people were killed, in a trial to start in the Netherlands next March, an investigation team said on Wednesday. The suspects are likely to be tried in absentia, however, as the Netherlands has said Russia has not cooperated with the investigation and is not expected to hand anyone over. The Dutch-led international team tasked with...

President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday by presenting himself as the same political insurgent who shook up the Washington establishment four years ago and who is now a victim of an attempted ouster by Democrats. At a packed rally at an arena in Orlando, Florida, Trump made clear he would run for re-election as an outsider, just as he did in 2016. Whether he can pull it off remains far from certain as Trump has...

Housebuilder Berkeley Group Plc reported a slump in annual pretax profit on Wednesday, as Britain's housing sector remains under pressure from uncertainty ahead of the country's exit from the European Union and builders face higher costs. Berkeley reiterated that pretax profit for 2019-20 is expected to fall by around a third from 2018-19. The housing market has weakened since the June 2016 Brexit vote, leading to a drop in prices in London. At the time of the referendum, prices were...

Dominic Raab has backed frontrunner Boris Johnson today, telling the Evening Standard newspaper he was the only candidate who would deliver Brexit by Oct 31st. "The only candidate who will now do this is Boris Johnson and so I'll be supporting him to become our next Prime Minister," he said. The former Foreign Secretary is far ahead of the rest of the pack, stretching a lead which, for many, makes Johnson the all but inevitable victor to replace Prime Minister...

Trust in vaccines - one of the world's most effective and widely-used medical products - is highest in poorer countries but weaker in wealthier ones where skepticism has allowed outbreaks of diseases such as measles to persist, a global study found on Wednesday. France has the least confidence of any country in the world in the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, with a third believing that vaccines are unsafe, according to the study. While most parents do choose to vaccinate...

The CBI warn of "Brexit uncertainty biting" as factory orders slump to their lowest since the months following the EU referendum in 2016 Reuters report. British factory orders slid in June against a backdrop of stoppages in car production following uncertainty about when Britain will leave the European Union, the CBI's monthly industrial trends survey showed on Wednesday. The Confederation of British Industry survey's total order book balance sank to -15 this month from -10 in May, the weakest reading...