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EU to crack down on influencer marketing

The EU will clamp down on influencer marketing and ban online features that trick Europeans under plans to overhaul the bloc's consumer protection rules, according to documents seen by AFP on Monday.

France 24
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Science

Medical breakthrough offers hope to people with same stiff person syndrome as Céline Dion

Some patients with autoimmune condition in the trial have been able to return to work and resume hobbies Doctors have made a potentially significant breakthrough in the hunt for a treatment for stiff person syndrome, the autoimmune condition that affects the singer Céline Dion. Stiff person syndrome (SPS) is a rare disease that attacks the central nervous system and can cause devastating rigidity throughout the body and painful muscle spasms. Despite decades of research, there is no cure. Continue reading...

The Guardian
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Entertainment

Hometown glory? Norwegian library unveils £100k history book donated by Erling Haaland

Rare 16th-century edition of Viking royal sagas given to Bryne by Manchester City footballer and his father At his local library in the southern Norwegian town of Bryne, the father of superstar striker Erling Haaland made a confession. “Sometimes my son and I are a little impulsive,” Alf Inge Haaland, known as Alfie, told the assembled crowd on Monday morning. The spontaneous act in question was the purchase of the only surviving privately owned edition of a 1594 book, Snorre Sturlasons Kongesagaer (Snorre Sturlason’s Royal Sagas). The auction purchase for 1.3m Norwegian kroner (£103,000) was

The Guardian
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