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“Whichever way we slice the data, the growth in working age population stands out as a key driver of economic growth for most countries. A healthy dependency ratio, a skilled workforce, together with strong institutions and an absence of major resource imbalances is usually the formula for country-level success. But with most DMs weighed down by ageing populations, a key question is this - can people inflows counter challenging demographics? The short answer is yes.”

Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Today, however, a detached elite shapes our buildings, and only then do they shape us—mostly to our detriment.

Scientists have announced that they have found the trigger and potentially the “cure” for obesity.  According to a study published in the Science journal – obesity can be easily controlled by clicking a switch in the brain. An enzyme found in the brains of mice and humans, O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) appears to control our ability to determine whether or not we feel full. Researchers removed this enzyme from one group of mice in a study – and found that the mice ended up eating twice their normal amount of food, becoming much fatter in the process.

An 87-year-old grandmother from the UK have been forcibly evicted from her home on Wednesday after bailiffs smashed down her door and forced her out onto the street. May Appleton and her sons say that bailiffs turned up to her home in Northwich, England and gave the family 30 minutes to leave the property while they smashed windows and broke down doors. Northwichguardian.co.uk reports: Brian Appleton, 61, May’s eldest son, said: “They got a sledgehammer to the door and smashed the window at the top – the glass went all over Mark and cut his hand and went halfway up the stairs.

The bullish Belgium death bounce has been erased as Jim Bullard and Black Gold damped enthusiasm for buying stocks...