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The UK’s Financial Times could not resist some mild sexual innuendo in the headline of a front-page article in its 30 May edition: “Durex sales deflate as China withdraws condom tax break to revive birth rate.” China announced last December that from January 1 condoms would be subject to a Value Added Tax of 13%, reversing a tax-exemption dating from 1993. Sales of China’s leading condom brand, Durex, owned by British company Reckitt, drooped 5% in the first quarter of 2026.

The mother of one of my friends once told us about the tragedy of dealing with her mother-in-law, who struggled with Alzheimer's...

For some while now there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not it is selfish to have children.

The question posed in the title of this article may strike you as absurd. No, I hope you will answer: Sherlock Holmes was the fictional

What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. - Franz Kafka