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  • Plant-based diets support healthy growth when properly planned for children

    Plant-based diets support healthy growth when properly planned for children

    Vegetarian and vegan diets can support healthy growth when carefully planned with appropriate supplementation, finds a major new meta-analysis – the most comprehensive study to-date of plant-based diets in children.

    A team of…

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  • My darling clementine: why did Chalamet and Jenner dress in matching orange? | Timothée Chalamet

    My darling clementine: why did Chalamet and Jenner dress in matching orange? | Timothée Chalamet

    When the Hollywood star Timothée Chalamet and the media personality and businesswoman Kylie Jenner appeared at the LA premiere of his new film, Marty Supreme, this week, they appeared to have been Tangoed.

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  • Lindsey Vonn’s spectacular St Moritz win stuns skiing world

    Lindsey Vonn’s spectacular St Moritz win stuns skiing world

    A rapid puff of three consecutive breaths preceded Lindsey Vonn‘s run in St Moritz on Friday (12 December) in the first women’s alpine skiing downhill of the 2025-26 FIS World Cup season, and only her sixth race back in the event since returning…

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  • King Charles shares cancer recovery milestone in TV message

    King Charles shares cancer recovery milestone in TV message


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    Britain’s King Charles III offered a rare update on his cancer journey in a video message on Friday evening, revealing that he has responded well to treatment and it…

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  • Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan must receive funding under the NFC award: Nawaz – Dawn

    1. Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan must receive funding under the NFC award: Nawaz  Dawn
    2. Nawaz urges early NFC allocations for G-B, AJK  The Express Tribune
    3. Nawaz urges Shehbaz to allocate NFC-based funds to AJK, GB  Pakistan Today
    4. Nawaz Sharif urges…

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  • GT expands with New Zealand

    About Grant Thornton

    Grant Thornton delivers professional services in the US through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services ― and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services. 

     

    In January 2025, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform. The platform offers a premier advisory and tax practice, as well as independent audit practices. With offices across the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of more than 18,000 quality-driven professionals enjoying exceptional career-growth opportunities and a distinctive cross-border culture. 

     

    Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets. 

     

    Grant Thornton LLP, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC and their respective subsidiaries operate as an alternative practice structure (APS). The APS conforms with applicable laws, regulations and professional standards, including those from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

     

    “Grant Thornton” refers to the brand under which the member firms in the Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL) network provide services to their clients and/or refers to one or more member firms. Grant Thornton LLP and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC serve as the U.S. member firms of the GTIL network. GTIL and its member firms are not a worldwide partnership and all member firms are separate legal entities. Member firms deliver all services; GTIL does not provide services to clients.

     

     

    About Grant Thornton New Zealand

    Grant Thornton New Zealand is a leading professional services firm providing audit, tax, and advisory services to dynamic organisations across key sectors of the New Zealand economy. With 37 partners and more than 300 professionals and in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, we combine local insight with global reach through the Grant Thornton International network, spanning more than 150 markets.

     

    We’re known for our collaborative, client-centred approach and invest the time needed to understand each client’s ambitions, challenges and opportunities. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with fresh, commercial insight to deliver practical solutions that create real impact. Agile and responsive, we work alongside clients to achieve the outcomes that matter most – whether that’s improving performance, growing value, or building investor and stakeholder confidence.

     

     

    About New Mountain Capital

    New Mountain Capital is a New York-based investment firm that emphasizes business building and growth, rather than debt, as it pursues long-term capital appreciation. The firm currently manages private equity, credit and net lease investment strategies with approximately $55 billion in assets under management. New Mountain Capital seeks out what it believes to be the highest quality growth leaders in carefully selected industry sectors and then works intensively with management to build the value of these companies. For more information on New Mountain Capital, please visit newmountaincapital.com.

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  • Watch: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi turns eagle, grabs sharp catch after 171-run knock in U19 Asia Cup 2025 | Cricket News

    Watch: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi turns eagle, grabs sharp catch after 171-run knock in U19 Asia Cup 2025 | Cricket News

    Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s catch (screengrabs)

    NEW DELHI: India’s opening match of the U19 Asia Cup 2025 turned into a showcase of dominance, power-hitting, and athletic brilliance, capped by a flying catch from Vaibhav Sooryavanshi that matched…

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  • From listings to all-tenant rents: a probabilistic model

    From listings to all-tenant rents: a probabilistic model

    Summary

    Focus

    We study how to measure rents paid by all tenants using data from online rental listings. Asking rents are the prices of rental units on the market. They are available quickly and in great detail. But they differ from the rents that most tenants pay, which change only slowly.

    We build a weekly all-tenant rent index for Switzerland. We start by cleaning millions of listings and removing extreme values. Then we adjust rents based on location and quality, such as canton, size and number of rooms. This gives us detailed information on developments in asking rents by region and apartment size. Next, we use a probabilistic model that links asking rent developments to all-tenant rent developments by modelling how past asking rents enter the rent stock. Finally, we model the effect of Swiss rules that allow changes to rents when the mortgage reference rate changes.

    Contribution

    We present a new way to measure rents in real time without using tenant surveys. This is important because rents are the largest item in the consumer price index in many countries. Better, faster information on rent trends helps central banks and other policymakers monitor inflation. Current rent data in the consumer price index arrives with a delay and is usually not available by region or apartment type. Our method uses only listing data and official statistics so can be adapted to other countries without detailed rent surveys.

    Findings

    Our weekly all-tenant rent index is very close to the official rent component in the consumer price index, especially after 2021. The main reason is the gradual transmission of asking rents into the broader rent stock as tenants move. Adjustments linked to the mortgage reference rate also matter, but they play a supporting role. Our index improves rent inflation nowcasting and reveals large differences across regions and apartment sizes. This gives policymakers a timely and detailed view of the rental market.


    Abstract

    Rents are the largest component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in many countries, making accurate and timely measurements of rental price developments essential for inflation monitoring and policy decisions. Market (asking) rent indices are often available in near real-time and with high detail, but differ substantially from the rents paid by the overall tenant population, as typically measured in the CPI. This paper proposes a model to bridge the gap between asking and all-tenant rents. First, using rental-unit listings for Switzerland, we construct timely, granular, and high-frequency indices of asking rents. Second, using a probabilistic model that accounts for the duration of tenants’ stays, we estimate all-tenant rents based on historical asking rents. Additionally, we incorporate rent changes during ongoing tenancies. For Switzerland, this corresponds to adjustments permitted under Swiss tenancy law in response to changes in the mortgage reference rate and inflation. This allows us to provide weekly, real-time, and highly disaggregated estimates of all-tenant rents, which are highly correlated with the official quarterly survey-based rental index in the Swiss CPI. Our approach provides a tool for timely rental price monitoring and forecasting that can be adapted for use in other countries.

    JEL classification: R21, E31, E37

    Keywords: asking rents, rent indices, duration model, inflation

    The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the BIS or its member central banks.

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  • Increased epicardial fat volume linked to greater myocardial injury after infarction

    Increased epicardial fat volume linked to greater myocardial injury after infarction

    Increased volume of epicardial adipose tissue, detected by cardiovascular imaging, was found to be associated with greater myocardial injury after a myocardial infarction. These findings were presented today at EACVI 2025, the…

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