Family of mother who died after benefits cut begin legal proceedings

Family of single mother, 27, who took a fatal overdose after her benefits were cut and was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her disability claim begin legal proceedings against the government Phillippa Day, 27, was found collapsed in her home in Nottingham in August 2019  Found beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment Ms Day’s […]

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Times Square gun victim: I screamed 'I don't want to die'

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was shot in Times Square during a Mother’s Day trip to New York City with her family said that she prayed that her wound would not be fatal. “I was literally screaming on the floor, ‘I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I have a 2-year-old,’” Wendy Magrinat, a 23-year-old […]

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‘Harmful’: French education ministry bans gender-inclusive language

Paris: France’s education ministry has banned the use of gender-inclusive words in classrooms, saying they “harm” learning and risk cementing the status of English as the world’s dominant language. The decree sent to schools across the country took specific aim at the practice of introducing full stops into the middle of words to denote both masculine and feminine endings, such […]

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