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Ryanair closes frequent flyers club after members take advantage of discounts

Airline says 55,000 people signed up to Prime, making €4.4m, but passengers benefited by more than €6m Business live – latest updates Ryanair is shutting its frequent flyers members’ club after only eight months because customers exploited its benefits too much. The budget airline said on Friday it was closing the scheme, which offered benefits including flight discounts, free reserved seating on up to 12 flights a year and travel insurance. Continue reading… Source link

Politics

Budget has preserved Starmer’s job until at least May elections, say Labour MPs

While some call budget ‘tactical victory’, few MPs believe it is enough for Labour to beat Reform UK politics live – latest updates Labour MPs have said they believe Keir Starmer’s leadership is safe until at least the May elections, after a budget that avoided any major damaging measures but which few MPs believe will revive the party’s fortunes. More than a dozen previously loyal MPs told the Guardian they did not believe the budget would shift the fundamentals required for the party to beat Reform. “It only delays what is inevitable,” one minister said. Continue reading… Source link

Science

This simple warm-up trick instantly boosts speed and power

Warming up significantly improves muscle performance, particularly speed and power, by increasing muscle temperature. Both passive heat methods and light exercise warm-ups work, but mimicking the actual workout movements can offer extra benefits. When your body starts to feel coordinated and lightly sweaty, you’re ready to push into the main session. Source link

Health

Hidden mitochondrial DNA damage may be a missing link in disease

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in nuclear DNA. These lesions disrupt energy production and activate stress-response pathways. Simulations show the damage makes mtDNA more rigid, possibly marking it for removal. The finding offers fresh clues to inflammation, aging, and diseases such as diabetes and neurodegeneration. Source link

World

Hong Kong community groups deliver aid to survivors of Wang Fuk Court fire

Volunteers that emerged during the pro-democracy protests regroup to help those affected by the blaze Hong Kong’s grassroots community groups have sprung into action to help coordinate and deliver aid to the survivors of the Wang Fuk Court fire, a catastrophic blaze that is confirmed to have killed at least 128 people, with hundreds still missing. Restaurants, churches and gyms in the Tai Po area, where the Wang Fuk Court housing estate is located, have been turned into temporary shelters for people in need of clothes, food and information as a result of the tragedy. Continue reading… Source link

Technology

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With holiday shopping right around the corner, busy season is just getting started for email marketers. But email marketing continues to get more complicated, and costs keep rising each year. Which is why ZeroBounce has developed an all-in-one deliverability solution that helps you save time, keep costs down, and, most importantly, guarantees inbox placement – ZeroBounce ONE. ZeroBounce is a leading email validation and deliverability platform with more than 500,000 customers worldwide. And with its flagship ZeroBounce ONE subscription, you not only get email validation but also access to the company’s entire suite of email deliverability tools. No more…

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Unimportant monuments, a bass-player’s buildings and macabre Rego unleashed – the week in art

Artists turn from the heroic to the everyday, Paula Rego gives everyone a fright and a stealth wealth still life is subtly revealing – all in your weekly dispatch Monument to the UnimportantWith the birth of modernism, artists turned their gaze from the heroic to the “unimportant”. This attention to the everyday continues, as Rachel Whiteread, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Gober and others demonstrate. • Pace Gallery, London, until 14 February Continue reading… Source link

Business

Laughter heard at shelters as children, students learn to cope with situation

Occasional outbursts of children’s laughter were heard on Friday morning at one of the shelters set aside for residents left homeless by the deadly inferno at a Tai Po housing estate in Hong Kong, as classes were still suspended in some of the schools in the aftermath. Scattered across different corners at Tung Cheong Street Community Hall in Tai Po, some primary and secondary school students were sitting on mattresses, lying on the floor or playing games with visiting social workers. Among them… Source link

China

Chinese scientists create super stable building block for quantum computers

Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team have created a “quantum Lego block” that refuses to fall apart – even when shaken. Using a programmable quantum processor named Zuchongzhi 2, Pan’s team has simulated an exotic new state of matter where quantum effects are locked into the corners of a material, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday. These corner states are protected by the deep laws of topology – a kind of quantum armour against errors and… Source link

Science

X-ray movies reveal how intense lasers tear a buckyball apart

Using intense X-rays, researchers captured a buckyball as it expanded, split and shed electrons under strong laser fields. Detailed scattering measurements showed how the molecule behaves at low, medium and high laser intensities. Some predicted oscillations never appeared, pointing to missing physics in current models. The findings create a clearer picture of how molecules fall apart under extreme light. Source link