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Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of "smearing a working-class woman" after the PM made a jibe about Angela Rayner's tax affairs. Police are investigating Ms Rayner after claims she should have paid tax on the profits of a house sale. Sir Keir is backing his deputy, who has said she will stand down if she is found to have broken the law. But the Conservatives say Ms Rayner should publish the legal advice she says proves she has done nothing wrong. At Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir Starmer launched an attack on former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who this week published a book entitled Ten Years to Save the West. The Labour leader joked that he was the "proud owner" of a copy, adding: "It is a rare unsigned copy. It is the only unsigned copy. "It is quite the read. She claims the Tory Party's disastrous kamikaze budget that triggered chaos for millions was - her words - 'the happiest moment of her premiership'. "Has the prime minister met anyone with a mortgage who agrees?" To loud cheers from his his own side, Mr Sunak replied: "All I would say is he ought to spend a bit less time reading that book and a bit more time reading the deputy leader's [Angela Rayner] tax advice." The Labour leader has said he is "fully confident" Ms Rayner has not broken any rules and welcomes the police inquiry as an opportunity to clear the matter up. But he has come under fire from Conservatives for not asking to see the tax and legal advice Ms Rayner has received. Sir Keir's spokesman said the Labour leader's team had seen the advice and it was "clear" that Ms Rayner had followed the rules at all times. He rejected claims Sir Keir had avoided reading the advice to protect himself. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68838701

Europe is home to a bunch of forbidden automotive offerings that haunt the minds of enthusiasts in America. Our laws force us to wait a quarter-century before importing these Old World oddities, or risk the car being seized or destroyed. One Swiss Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG wagon owner wasn't keen on or aware of that long wait and brought their car to the Chicago area under less-than-ideal means. Thanks to the folks at Auto Parts City in Gurnee, Illinois, this improperly imported Mercedes will live to see another day, despite the EPA's desire to see it crushed. The car in question is a 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG wagon. The longroof variant of the S204 never made its way across the pond, despite both the coupe and sedan models proving po[CENSORED]r with enthusiasts. We did get the larger E-class wagons here in the States, but there's something particularly interesting about a much smaller wagon with that same AMG powertrain. In the case of this car, that means a 6.2-liter naturally aspirated V-8 producing 451 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque. With a combination like that, it's no surprise this car's European owner wasn't ready to let it go when they moved to the Chicago area. Jeremy B from Auto Parts City told Road & Track that though the owner went through the importation process to bring the car here, the importer made some less than kosher decisions along the way. Most notably, the car was listed as a C240 model, which initially allowed the car to skirt the authorities. That only worked until the car was due for its annual emissions inspection, however, upon which the European VIN was discovered. The local emissions office then reached out to the EPA to flag the car, which prompted the agency to respond with two choices: destroy the car or ship it back to Europe immediately. It's unclear whether or not the Swiss owner was aware of the shenanigans from the start, but they did pay around $8000 to bring the AMG to the States. Unwilling to pay that sort of money to ship the car back to Europe, the owner opted to scrap the car with Auto Parts City. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60510735/mercedes-benz-c63-wagon-illegal-import-saved/

National Exercise Day 2024: Exercise is an integral part of wellbeing. It helps us to stay fit, keep diseases at bay and stay healthy. Exercises can help us to alleviate symptoms of many chronic diseases. Having a regular workout routine is important. Sometimes, the workout need not be intense – it can be low-impact workouts such as walking or cycling as well. Yoga is also a form of exercise routine which has a holistic approach in healing the mind and the body. Health experts recommend us to have a fixed and regular workout routine to stay healthy. It is also important to maintain a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle. Every year, National Exercise Day is observed to reinstate the importance of exercise in our daily lives. As we gear up to celebrate the special day, here are a few things that we should be aware of. Date: Every year, National Exercise Day is observed on April 18. This year, the special day falls on Thursday. History: The history of exercises dates back to ancient Greece where Yoga was one of the first forms of organised physical activity that could provide spiritual and mental clarity. In Northern European Germanic tribes, exercises were used as a means of survival. Later, in 1949, Jerry Morris discovered the link between physical health and exercise when he studied the varying nature of heart attacks in people of different social classes, based on their levels of exercising. Significance: The best way to observe the special day is by initiating a workout routine and carrying it forward without fail. The day urges people to start having a workout routine. It also creates awareness about the importance of exercising to have a healthy and fit body. Workouts can help us to keep our stress levels low and alleviate symptoms of chronic diseases. It also helps us to stay focused and happy. https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/health/national-exercise-day-2024-date-history-significance-and-everything-that-you-need-to-know-101713364264148.html

A record number of manatees converged at a Florida state park this week. Experts weigh in on this "very unusual" phenomenon. Manatees are typically solitary animals, but this week they've gathered in record-breaking numbers at a Florida state park. Nearly 1,000 of the gentle sea mammals, also known as sea cows, were counted at Blue Spring State Park earlier this week, as first reported via the park’s Facebook page. That's a jump from the last record gathering on New Year's Day 2024 when park rangers observed 736 of the beloved animals in the same space. "This is very unusual," says Cora Berchem, a research associate at the non-profit Save the Manatee Club. "I was definitely expecting to see a high number, but not so many, so quickly." Researchers from Save the Manatee Club, an organisation that works to protect manatees, have been documenting the lives of the animals since 2010. The club records the births, deaths, and relationships of the manatees, which has meant over the years it has compiled one of the world's longest running manatee databases. The sheer number of manatees currently gathered together is notable, says Berchem, and while the reason for their arrival is uncertain, it may be weather related. The water in the nearby St Johns River, where the manatees are known to spend their time, recently dropped to a chilly 14.1C (58F). On that same day – easily the coldest of the year, says Berchem – a drove of manatees made a beeline for Blue Spring State Park, where the hot springs are typically a balmy 25C (72F) all year long. While the chubby round bodies of manatees may appear well-insulated, looks can be deceiving. Most manatees only have about one inch of body fat, and are extremely sensitive to chilly temperatures. "The last couple of weeks we've had really strong cold fronts, one after another," says Monica Ross, director of manatee research and conservation for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. "Anything below 20C (68F) and a manatee will have to thermoregulate or they start losing heat. And below 16C (60F) they get cold stress syndrome – their extremities do not get blood flow and they could lose skin or portions of their extremities, such as a portion of their tail, from cold stress." In addition to the drop in temperatures, multiple algae blooms on Florida's east coast have killed off large swathes of seagrass, the manatees' main food source. Toxic "red tide" algae blooms have also claimed the lives of a number of manatees on Florida's coastline. Ross says both the drop in temperature and algae may be driving the increased numbers of manatees in locations throughout central Florida. And there's yet another possible reason why manatees are gathering at Blue Spring State Park: the location is a rare protected sanctuary for the animals, who are at risk of injury or death from collisions with watercraft. During the winter months (November through March) the park prohibits recreations such as canoeing, kayaking, paddle boarding and swimming. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240125-a-florida-state-park-reports-a-record-number-of-manatees-gathering-whats-behind-the-convergence

This year's battle for automatic promotion to the Premier League looks set to go right to the wire, with last season's relegated sides Leicester, Leeds and Southampton trying to bounce straight back. However, Kieran McKenna's Ipswich are currently top of a four-way fight. At the turn of the year Enzo Maresca's Leicester looked certain to bounce straight back up to the Premier League, topping the Championship table with a 13-point gap over third-place Southampton. But after the Saints' win over Preston on Tuesday, four teams are involved with just a handful of games to go. Leicester centre-back Conor Coady told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club about the psychology in this year's Championship title race. "I look at results all the time, of course I do. It's the first thing you do. You're hoping they've lost if you've won, to gain a bit of ground - 100% it affects you. "When they're on the telly you watch them and praying they might drop points. It's a natural thing to do, you've just got to make sure you're doing your own job." BBC Sport examines the run-in and Opta predictions. This year's battle for automatic promotion to the Premier League looks set to go right to the wire, with last season's relegated sides Leicester, Leeds and Southampton trying to bounce straight back. However, Kieran McKenna's Ipswich are currently top of a four-way fight. At the turn of the year Enzo Maresca's Leicester looked certain to bounce straight back up to the Premier League, topping the Championship table with a 13-point gap over third-place Southampton. But after the Saints' win over Preston on Tuesday, four teams are involved with just a handful of games to go. Leicester centre-back Conor Coady told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club about the psychology in this year's Championship title race. "I look at results all the time, of course I do. It's the first thing you do. You're hoping they've lost if you've won, to gain a bit of ground - 100% it affects you. "When they're on the telly you watch them and praying they might drop points. It's a natural thing to do, you've just got to make sure you're doing your own job." BBC Sport examines the run-in and Opta predictions. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68824056

Russia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark, the BBC can confirm. In the second 12 months on the front line - as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy - we found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in the first year. BBC Russian, independent media group Mediazona and volunteers have been counting deaths since February 2022. New graves in cemeteries helped provide the names of many soldiers. Our teams also combed through open-source information from official reports, newspapers and social media. More than 27,300 Russian soldiers died in the second year of combat - according to our findings - a reflection of how territorial gains have come at a huge human cost. Russia has responded to the BBC's report saying only the defence ministry in Moscow can give this kind of information. The term meat grinder has been used to describe the way Moscow sends waves of soldiers forward relentlessly to try to wear down Ukrainian forces and expose their locations to Russian artillery. The overall death toll - of more than 50,000 - is eight times higher than the only official public acknowledgement of fatality numbers ever given by Moscow in September 2022. The actual number of Russian deaths is likely to be much higher. Our analysis does not include the deaths of militia in Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk - in eastern Ukraine. If they were added, the death toll on the Russian side would be even higher. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was the "exclusive prerogative of the Ministry of Defence" to provide information on casualties, because of laws covering state secrets and disseminating information during the "special military operation", the phrase Russia uses for its war in Ukraine. Ukraine, meanwhile, rarely comments on the scale of its battlefield fatalities. In February, President Volodymyr Zelensky said 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed - but estimates, based on US intelligence, suggest greater losses. Meat grinder tactics The BBC and Mediazona's latest list of dead soldiers shows the stark human cost of Russia's changing front-line tactics. The graph below shows how the Russian military suffered a sharp spike in the number of deaths in January 2023, as it began a large-scale offensive in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. As Russians fought for the city of Vuhledar it used "ineffective human-wave style frontal assaults", according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). "Challenging terrain, a lack of combat power, and failure to surprise Ukrainian forces", it said, led to little gains and high combat losses. Another significant spike in the graph can be seen in spring 2023, during the battle for Bakhmut - when the mercenary group, Wagner, helped Russia capture the city. Wagner's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, estimated his group's losses around that time to be 22,000. Russia's capture of the eastern-Ukrainian city Avdiivka last autumn also led to another surge in military deaths. Counting graves Volunteers working with the BBC and Mediazona have been counting new military graves in 70 cemeteries across Russia since the war started. Graveyards have been expanded significantly, aerial images show. For example, these images of Bogorodskoye cemetery in Ryazan - to the south-east of Moscow - show a whole new section has appeared. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68819853

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iQoo Z9 series is confirmed to go official in China on April 24. While the Vivo sub-brand has only mentioned the iQoo Z9 and iQoo Z9 Turbo, the upcoming lineup could include the iQoo Z9x as well, as per recent reports. Just a week ahead of the official debut, a tipster has leaked the key specifications of the iQoo Z9 series smartphones. All three phones are said to come with dual rear cameras and 80W fast charging support. The iQoo Z9x is tipped to run on Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC, while the iQoo Z9 Turbo is already confirmed to ship with Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC. Tipster Ishan Agarwal (@ishanagarwal24), in association with 91Mobiles, has leaked the specifications of iQoo Z9 Turbo, iQoo Z9 and iQoo Z9x. As per the report, the iQoo Z9x will get a 6.72-inch 120Hz LCD screen, while the iQoo Z9 and iQoo Z9 Turbo could feature a 6.78-inch 144Hz AMOLED panel. All three models are said to pack dual rear cameras led by 50-megapixel primary sensor. The iQoo Z9 and iQoo Z9x are tipped to feature 2-megapixel portrait sensors, the iQoo Z9 Turbo is likely to carry an 8-megapixel ultrawide snapper. The iQoo Z9x could sport an 8-megapixel selfie shooter, while the vanilla iQoo Z9 and the Turbo variant might get a 16-megapixel front camera. iQoo has already confirmed that the iQoo Z9 Turbo will run on Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC. The tipster claims that the iQoo Z9x will have a Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC under the hood. The iQoo Z9 might feature a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC. The Indian variant of iQoo Z9 5G shipped with MediaTek Dimensity 7200 5G SoC. The iQoo Z9x and the vanilla iQoo Z9 could feature LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.2 storage. The iQoo Turbo, in contrast, is said to include LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage. The iQoo Z9 Turbo is already confirmed to house a 6,000mAh battery. The leak suggests the same battery call for the other two iQoo Z9 series phones. The iQoo Z9 Turbo and iQoo Z9 are said to offer 80W fast charging support, while the iQoo Z9x could come with 40W charging speed. iQoo Neo 9s Pro Might Debut With These Snapdragon and MediaTek Chipsets iQoo already announced that the iQoo Z9 and iQoo Z9 Turbo will be launched in China on April 24 at 7pm local time (4:30pm IST). The standard iQoo Z9 5G was released in India last month with a price tag of Rs. 19,999 for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage model. https://www.gadgets360.com/mobiles/news/iqoo-z9x-turbo-series-launch-april-24-specifications-report-5454464#pfrom=topstory