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Ancient Viking ship discovered buried next to church using breakthrough georadar technology‘This will certainly be of great historical significance,’ archaeologists sayA Viking ship believed to be over 1,000 years old has been discovered buried next to a church in Norway. Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) announced they had found the ship, believed to have been used in a traditional ship burial, using “breakthrough” large-scale high-resolution georadar technology.
Report: Heroin mainly enters EU at land border-crossing points in Bulgaria and GreeceHeroin mainly enters the EU at land border-crossing points in Bulgaria and Greece, according to the EU Drug Markets Report 2019, compiled by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addication and police agency Europol.
UK 'has particularly extreme form of capitalism'The UK has one of the most extreme forms of capitalism in the world and we urgently need to rethink the role of business in society. That's according to Prof Colin Mayer, author of a new report on the future of the corporation for the British Academy.Prof Mayer says that global crises such as the environment and growing inequality are forcing a reassessment of what business is for."The corporation has failed to deliver benefit beyond shareholders, to its stakeholders and its wider community," he said."At the moment, how we conceptualise business is, it's there to make money. But instead, we should think about it as an incredibly powerful tool for solving our problems in the world."
E-shoppers warned after electrical goods fail safety testsFailures, including hairdryer fire, occurred in 14 out 15 products sold by third-party sellers on sites such as Amazon
In-work poverty is on the rise - which party would tackle it?
PLAYING matches at midnight and police turning up to halt games – welcome to rugby league in Greece.But despite all that, the country has qualified for the 2021 World Cup.
Gary Rhodes: Chef and TV presenter dies aged 59
Clive James: Australian broadcaster and author dies aged 80
Tax bill foresees hefty fines for concealing data for short-term rentalsThe new tax bill the Finance Ministry has tabled in Parliament threaten online short-term rental platforms, such as Airbnb and Booking, with fines between 30,000 and 100,000 euros if they fail to supply taxpayer data related to their property rentals.The draft law on taxation, submitted late on Tuesday to be voted in to law next month, renders much stricter the framework for hosts who hide their revenues from renting out their properties via short-term leasing platforms, as they will incur fines from 5,000 to 30,000 euros, besides the fines on the platforms.
Another change from the original text of the bill as had been submitted for public consultation concerns the tax discount the government has promised on taxpayers mending and renovating buildings.The original 40 percent tax discount concerned a maximum expenditure of 48,000 euros, but this has now been slashed to 16,000 euros.
EU sues Denmark over misuse of term 'feta' on Danish cheesesThe European Commission said on Wednesday it was suing Denmark for failing to prevent local companies from making and exporting outside the EU white cheese labeled as “feta,” breaching rules that limit that term to cheese from Greece.
New Democracy Replaces Hospital Managers with Party LoyalistsAfter promising he would make appointments based on merit and stop the kind of runaway patronage that helped bring Greece to the edge of ruin and needing three international bailouts of 326 billion euros, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ New Democracy government has named party supporters as hospital chiefs.
Drinking coffee can cut risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, research findsThe benefit is lost if more than four cups of coffee per day are consumed
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