By Joanne Hart Updated: 16:54 BST, 19 August 2024 Online banking group Revolut is one of the UK’s biggest and best-known technology firms. Founded in 2015, Revolut has attracted criticism down the years but today, it has around 45 million customers, recently gained a banking licence and is mulling a flotation of more than £30 … Read more
By Joanne Hart Updated: 21:54 BST, 17 August 2024 Ships are responsible for 90 per cent of global trade, transporting around 11 billion tons of cargo round the world every year. The work is done by more than 50,000 vessels, from huge oil tankers and container ships to small-scale specialist fishing boats. Moving freight around … Read more
By Joanne Hart Updated: 09:55 GMT, 3 March 2024 The East-meets-West Republic of Georgia can trace its history and culture back thousands of years. But it has been occupied repeatedly through the centuries, including decades under Soviet rule. Declaring independence in 1991, the nation has since been subjected to bouts of aggression from Russian president … Read more
By Joanne Hart Updated: 21:52 GMT, 24 February 2024 Dementia is one of the most crippling conditions of modern times, causing misery and confusion for sufferers and their loved ones. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of this illness, affecting more than 60 million people today and likely to afflict double that number in … Read more
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