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Hardship experienced by mothers during their own childhood or during pregnancy is reflected in the composition of their 2-year-old children's gut microbiomes, reports an international team of scientists led by UCLA psychologists. The…

Westpac chief executive Peter King says more people have been missing a mortgage payment in the six months to March, with increasing calls to the bank’s hardship line, but that customers have not been pushing the “help button”.The boss of…

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn has defended the profits banks are making at a time when many households face a financial squeeze, signalling the bank will use its capital to support vulnerable customers in the coming…

King Charles III has paid tribute to charities, community groups and public sector workers helping people “at this time of great anxiety and hardship” as the British monarch gave his first Christmas message to the nation.He was…

Express News Service A lot can change over ninety minutes of football. It is safe to assume that, of the millions that tuned in to watch the Netherlands take on Ecuador, the vast majority did so to see the Oranje in…

Universities in England and Wales are doubling or tripling their hardship funds in anticipation of “unprecedented” demand from students struggling with the cost of living, amid fears of widespread dropouts unless ministers offer more…

The cost of living crisis is placing nearly 300,000 UK students in financial peril, with a disproportionate number of older, working-class or Black students likely to drop out, according to analysis by a university group.The MillionPlus…

A study by Rice University, the University of Notre Dame and the Environmental Defense Fund shows the economic and mental health consequences on victims of Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19 were cumulative. The results appear in Environmental…

Some NHS doctors and staff with long Covid are being forced to sell their homes after being denied financial support by the government, while teachers are also increasingly being affected by the debilitating post-viral condition, it has…

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