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It’s late last Thursday night in Paris. In a gentle freezing sleet I clatter over cobbles on a beaten up Lime bike, slightly late, to meet Colm Dillane. In this city you can only park your e-rides in designated areas, so I swoosh to the closest location to the ramshackle house that has been AirBnb’d to act as KidSuper’s fittings studio before Saturday night’s show. As I approach, a vaguely suspicious character is also trying to park his bike, jabbing at his phone. Hooded under a puffa and wearing pants patterned with handwritten letters that I suddenly recognize, I see…

The Middle East destination wedding market is estimated to be worth more than €4 billion and for increasing numbers of couples their journey down the aisle is leading them to Dubai. With year-round sunshine, five-star ballrooms and beaches, and multi-faith churches and temples, the expanding industry is big business. Easy Wedding Dubai facilitates marriages for people of all nationalities and religious denominations both from within the UAE and overseas.“We assess the situation and based on their religion, nationality and residency, we will offer them the best options, legal advice and solution to get legally married,” says Easy Wedding Dubai co-founder…

The Euronews Brussels bureau brings you its latest episode of a new talk show that aims to break down European news and politics to make it more accessible to viewers. This week’s edition comes to you from Davos, Switzerland where global leaders, heads of state, business representatives and civil society have been meeting all week at the World Economic Forum. We spoke to EU Commissioner for financial affairs, Mairead Mc Guinness, former prime minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb and Bulgarian MEP Eva Maydall about the big topics of the forum and asked whether the meeting will have any impact on our lives.Taking…

After widespread Christmas disruption caused by strikes, more industrial action is set to take place across Europe this year.As the cost of living crisis and rising inflation continue to bite, many are taking action over pay and working conditions.Here are all of the transport strikes set to take place so far in 2023.French unions want to cause “zero transport” havocPrime Minister Elizabeth Borne recently announced that people in France will have to work two years longer, until the age of at least 64, before retiring.In response, all unions called for a nationwide day of strikes and protests on 19 January.…

Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to explain how the brain generates conscious experiences. Some doubt whether the objective tools of science can ever get to grips with a phenomenon that is so subjective. Even so, researchers have begun to identify the changes in brain activity that accompany awareness, and they also have some fascinating ideas about why consciousness evolved. How the brain conjures conscious awareness from the electrical activity of billions of individual nerve cells remains one of the great unanswered questions of life. Each of us knows that we are conscious, in terms of having thoughts, perceptions, and…

Experts say the global “dual epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes” is an urgent public health challenge.New research suggests coffee may help protect against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among people with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D).In this study, caffeine intake correlated with decreased liver fibrosis in NAFLD and other chronic liver-related illnesses.The authors say that their work “is the first to observe that higher cumulative amounts of both caffeine and non-caffeine metabolites in urine are associated with a reduced severity of NAFLD in overweight people with T2D.”Scientists in Portugal found that caffeine and polyphenols in coffee may…

We all know that acts of kindness can brighten someone else’s day. But new research suggests that good deeds can also help ease the doer’s own symptoms of anxiety and depression, along with promoting social connection and improving overall life satisfaction.According to a study from researchers at Ohio State University published in The Journal of Positive Psychology, performing acts of kindness may even result in greater social well-being than techniques used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to treat depression and anxiety. “Social connection seems to be one of the most powerful ingredients for flourishing in life,” David Cregg, Ph.D., a…

Welcome to Start TODAY. Sign up for our free Start TODAY newsletter to receive daily inspiration sent to your inbox. Then, join us on the Start TODAY Facebook group for tips and motivation, to connect with others following the plan — and to get real-time advice from trainer Stephanie Mansour!Al Roker has a life hack for cooking more healthy meals at home.On Jan. 19, he answered questions from Start TODAY members on Facebook Live and shared what’s worked for him regarding exercising, recovering from surgery and eating balanced meals. The legendary weatherman was hospitalized for blood clots in his legs and lungs at the…

Gas stoves are used by millions of people across the United States every day. But in the last two weeks, the common household appliance has ignited an intense debate online about whether gas stove are bad for your health due to their emissions.Earlier this month, a commissioner with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News about a potential ban on gas stoves, calling them “hidden hazards” due to health and climate concerns, NBC News reported on Jan. 10. He later clarified that any regulations on gas stoves would only apply to new appliances (as opposed…

Astronomers have captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest surveys of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. In a Wednesday release, the Harvard & Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics noted that the panorama, which focuses on the Southern Hemisphere sky also captured, a central bulge of bright blue stars containing the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. The image was taken by the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which made the observations over two years. “This is quite a technical feat. Imagine a group photo of…