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Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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Illness

a man smoking an e-cigarette - E-cigs are becoming more popular costing around 17 cents a cigarette compared to more than $1 for a conventional cigarette. Photo Mark Cranitch.

Why government won’t talk about e-cigs

QUIT smoking rates in the US and the UK — where e-cigarettes containing nicotine are legal — are higher than ever. So why won’t our government talk about it?

Economy

The sun sets over El Palito oil refinery in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. Puerto Cabello is the entry point for government-subsidized meat from the Brazilian company JBS SA. Port officials say the subsidized food is channeled to state shops in areas most threatened by riots or government opposition campaigning. Photographer: Meridith Kohut/Bloomberg

Oil rich nation fast going broke

IT HAS loads of oil and should be one of the richest countries on the planet, but most of its people only make $7 a month.

Social

The Rich Kids of Tehran. Picture: therichkidsoftehran/Instagram

Rich kids shamelessly flaunt their cash

THESE kids parade their lavish lifestyle on Instagram while the poor suffer. Their shamelessness is now being blamed for deadly protests.

Innovation

The FoldiMate - claims to fold a load of washing in four minutes.

Clothes folding solution is ‘pointless’

THE claim is it can fold a load of clothes in minutes. But there’s a definite downside to this invention. And we’re not talking about the price.

World

Ramon Aguayo begins to clear a car trapped in a deep debris flow that covered parts of Topanga Canyon Boulevard near the village of Topanga west of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2017. Multiple people were killed and homes were swept from their foundations as mud and debris from wildfire-scarred hillsides flowed through neighborhoods and onto a key Southern California highway Tuesday during a powerful winter storm that dropped record rain across the state. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

‘Just so devastating’: Deadly river of mud

A MAN woke to find a body pinned against the wall of his neighbour’s home after a mudslide near LA cut a deadly path under the cover of darkness.

Animals

Alligator survicing in the ice. Source Facebook/Shallotte River Swamp Park

Alligators survival trick frozen under ice

AFTER last week’s intense snow storms hit the United States, while some animals perished, others are finding ways to survive.

World

Chun "Michael" Deng. Hazing victim. Supplied

Four jailed for hazing

BLINDFOLDED, forced to wear a heavy backpack, then repeatedly tackled by his “frat brothers”, Chun “Michael” Deng lay dying. Nobody called an ambulance.

technology/environment

Dead flying foxes in heat wave. Souce: Facebook/Help Save the Wildlife and Bushlands in Campbelltown

Bats ‘boiled’ alive in heatwave

AS THE temperature reached more than 40c in Sydney, thousands of animals fell from trees as volunteers tried to save them.

Eat

What’s wrong with this breakfast?

A WOMAN who got fired up over a fatty fry-up, saying it was offensive to vegans, has been slapped down on Twitter.

Illness

This photograph taken on July 18, 2017, shows painkilling pills which contain codeine in a pharmacy in Quimper, western France. In France Codeine-based medicines will now be available only on prescription, the Ministry of Health announced on July 18 , "to put an end to dangerous and potentially life-threatening addictive practices" linked to the misuse of these products. / AFP PHOTO / FRED TANNEAU

Panic buying as codeine ban looms

THERE are reports of panic buying of painkillers containing codeine as users stock up ahead of the February 1 deadline which will see the drugs become prescription-only.

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