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* What’s been agreed on British travellers using passport e-gates in the EU?
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A men's wellness company did a study saying women in the UK are less healthy than men; it put the UK’s ‘gender health gap’ as the worst among G20 countries, but the research wasn’t reliable. Despite this, many MPs, news outlets, and organisations across the country shared it widely.
We spoke to two independent experts who said this research doesn’t reliably measure people’s health. Emmanuelle Nunes from the Royal Statistical Society and Dr Saloni Dattani from Our World in Data both raised concerns.
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It looks like the men’s wellness company Manual published what it called a study on the male health gap in 2020 - the earliest version we could find on its website. The study wasn’t peer-reviewed or published in any scientific journal.
We secured 21 corrections from prominent people or organisations as part of this investigation. Manual, the company behind the original research, told us in April that it had taken the study down, admitting it wasn’t done to professional research standards.
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** What’s been agreed on British travellers using passport e-gates in the EU? ([link removed])
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At a press conference following the first annual UK-EU summit on Monday (19 May), the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that one of the benefits of a new deal with the trading bloc was that UK travellers will be able to use e-gates when visiting EU countries.
However, some of the government’s claims about the deal have been challenged. In particular, it’s been pointed out that UK travellers are already able to use e-gates at some EU airports.
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Footage circulating on social media is claimed to show Pakistan shooting down an Indian fighter jet.
But this isn’t what the video shows. It is actually gameplay footage from the military simulation game Arma 3.
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