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Zombies are real—just ask the parasites taking over the bodies and brains of insects and rodents

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Zombies have taken many forms in popular culture. In Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video, corpses climb out of their graves and perform an impressively coordinated dance. In HBO's "The Last of Us," a fungus infects humans, takes over their bodies and turns them into hosts that help spread the infection. Even Plankton has tried his hand at taking control of another organism in "SpongeBob SquarePants."

Crude Oil Prices Sink on Hopes Diplomacy Can End US-Iran Conflict

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December WTI crude oil (CLZ26 ) is down -7.23 (-6.95%) today, and December RBOB gasoline (RBZ26 ) is down -0.2337 (-7.40%). Energy prices are sharply lower today, with Dec WTI crude oil falling to a 2-week low and Dec gasoline dropping to a 3-month nearest-futures low. Crude prices are slumping...

Soybeans Starting November with Steady Trade

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Soybeans are showing fractionally lower trade to start the Monday session. Futures were mixed on Friday with contracts anywhere from 2 ½ cents higher to fractionally lower. November was down 34 ¼ cents last week, with the monthly loss at 70 ¾ cents. Open interest was up 2,321 contracts. There...

Wheat Kicking Off Monday with Slight Gains

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Wheat is showing modest gains on Monday morning. The wheat complex wound up lower across the three markets on Friday. Chicago SRW contracts was mixed, down ¼ to 5 cents higher on the day, as December was 21 ½ cents lower on the week. Open interest was down 1,901 contracts...

Dollar Slides with Crude Oil Prices and Bond Yields

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The dollar index (DXY00 ) tumbled to a 1-month low today and is down by -0.22%. Today’s -6% plunge in crude oil prices has eased inflation expectations, which could persuade the Fed to ease monetary policy, a bearish factor for the dollar. Also, today’s stock recovery has reduced demand for...

Charities condemn proposal to make some refugees wait up to 30 years for settlement – as it happened

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Executive director of external affairs at the Refugee Council called the proposals ‘unfair and unworkable’

Downing Street has declined to say how much it cost for the plane carrying Andy Burnham and UK delegates to a Commonwealth leaders’ summit to stop in Manchester to pick him up (see 10.28am), the Press Association reports.

At the morning lobby briefing, asked if this was an appropriate use of public money, the PM’s spokesperson said:

The prime minister’s travel arrangements are made on the basis of security, operational requirements, and value for money for the taxpayer.

The prime minister’s travel arrangements reflect where he was carrying out official government business at the end of last week.

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