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Within weeks of Yadi Zhang’s arrival in London in September 2017, Jian Wen had left her job and room in a Chinese takeaway and moved into a £5m six-bedroom house near Hampstead Heath. The women, who claimed to run an international jewellery business trading in diamonds and antiques in countries including Japan, Thailand and China, travelled the world and spent tens of thousands of pounds on designer clothes and shoes in Harrods. In her newly affluent lifestyle, Wen bought a £25,000 E-Class Mercedes and sent her son to the £6,000-a-term Heathside preparatory school.But alarm bells rang when she tried to…

Greg Rutherford has spoken about the “horribly painful” injury that caused him to miss the Dancing On Ice final almost two weeks ago. The 37-year-old Olympian announced he had “effectively [given himself] a C-section” when he tore his abdominal muscles after sliding through the legs of professional skaters Brendyn Hatfield and Colin Grafton. He withdrew on the morning of the final of the ITV show after being injured in rehearsals on 10 March. Image: Mr Rutherford and his ice skating partner Vanessa James had to pull out of the final. Pic: Kieron McCarron/ITV/Shutterstock Mr Rutherford shared the news on Instagram…

Ian is joined by Rebecca Klar, technology and policy reporter at The Hill, to talk about the US government suing Apple for allegedly maintaining an illegal monopoly on smartphones.Also, hear the latest as the Bank of England votes to keep interest rates unchanged for another month at 5.25%.Meanwhile, thousands of women may be entitled to compensation after the pension age was increased. Ian finds out more with economist France Coppola.Listen and subscribe to The Ian King Business Podcast here. Source link

The first patient to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has appeared to play online chess.Neuralink released a nine-minute video in which the patient, who is paralysed below his shoulders, appears to move a cursor across a laptop screen with nothing but his thoughts. The video shows him playing chess and turning off the laptop’s music. The patient, who had not been previously identified, said in the live stream video that his name is Noland Arbaugh, 29, who was paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident. X This content is provided by X, which may be…

Stephen Fry has revealed how he had started taking Ozempic to lose weight but had to stop as the drug made him vomit up to five times a day.The actor and comedian, 66, said he got the jab – a treatment originally designed for people with diabetes – from his doctor in the US “years ago”. Speaking on the River Cafe Table 4 podcast, Fry described how the first week of being on Ozempic reaped “astonishing” results, which made him believe he had found a “brilliant” solution to his weight-loss efforts.”I’m an early adopter of these things,” Fry, who was…

For some reason which no-one can quite remember, when economists talk about interest rates they invariably find themselves referring to species of birds.They call those who are broadly in favour of lower interest rates “doves”. Those who are keen on higher borrowing costs are “hawks”. Analysts in the City of London draw up diagrams of the nine members of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, denoting how many of which bird there are at each meeting.Money latest: Reaction to Bank of England’s interest rate decisionThose who invariably lean towards higher rates are perma-hawks or uber-hawks and those on the other side…

The US Justice Department has launched a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of maintaining an illegal monopoly on smartphones.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple has used its monopoly power and its control over the iPhone to stifle competition and innovation. California-based Apple is said to have “tightened its grip on the smartphone market… not through product improvement, but by maintaining a chokehold on competition, locking its customers in to the iPhone while locking its competitors out of the market”, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said.President Joe Biden has called for the Justice…

The husband of Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear has revealed the pain of watching his beloved wife “slowly fading away” after her dementia diagnosis.Scott Brand has shared his experience as part of a new Alzheimer’s Society campaign, featuring a TV advert voiced by British actor Colin Firth. The advert, titled The Long Goodbye, illustrates the harsh reality of the disease’s progression – causing loved ones to “die again, and again, and again”.Brand said: “I miss the fun-loving wife that Julie had always been – the larger-than-life personality that brightened up everywhere she went, and the smile that lit up every…

A long-awaited report on how women born in the 1950s were affected by increases to their retirement age has recommended they are owed compensation. An investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found that thousands of women may have been affected by the government’s failure to adequately inform them of the change. Politics Live: Autumn timeframe’ for election, minister saysTo date, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has not acknowledged its failings or put things right for those women affected, the watchdog said.The ombudsman noted that the department has indicated it won’t comply with the findings and…

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to predict the type of health conditions a patient is likely to develop in the future, a study has found.The technology could be used to help doctors when it comes to monitoring patients or making decisions around diagnosis, researchers said. The AI tool, known as Foresight, belongs to the same family of AI models as ChatGPT but has been trained using information from NHS electronic records.It was developed by researchers from King’s College London (KCL), University College London (UCL), King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.The researchers…