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NatWest blocks staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

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How the Falklands conflict shaped my identity

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'Claims I had sexsomnia destroyed my rape case'

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iPhone and iPad app update

On Tuesday we are releasing an update to the BBC News iPhone and iPad app in the UK designed to make the app faster and more stable, with bigger, better quality images on the home screen.


We are busy doing some research and thinking at the moment about what people are looking for in our News apps in the longer term, but we thought that in the meantime, it was important to fix one or two bugs affecting some users of the existing app and to make it a better, slicker experience overall.

We want to make sure the current app remains a great way to get a quick overview of the top stories across a wide range of subjects, easy-to-scan on a mobile and, once the stories have loaded, handy to read offline too.

So, it will now be quicker to start up the app and to update it, and it should feel smoother and faster as you scroll and swipe through the screens and stories.

The larger homescreen images we've introduced serve two purposes:

  • first, you can see what's in them more clearly and there's more room for the headline
  • second, their positioning makes it clearer that you can scroll horizontally in each news category to reveal more stories (we noticed that in user testing some people assumed there were only three stories a section).

There is a new layout on iPad when you view the home screen in portrait mode - designed to show more headlines and make it easier to find the stories you're interested in.

Among the bugs that we've fixed is an issue that sometimes caused the app to get stuck when updating, and another where you sometimes saw duplicate stories within a single news category.

For our product team, these improvements required a fairly major reworking of the app's code. The good news is that they are now working from a more stable base which can be built on with new features and functionality. This revising of our code is something we've already done with our Android app, so we'll now be able to release upgrades simultaneously on both iOS and Android, which are by far the largest mobile platforms for us in terms of users. This latest update is already available internationally.

If you're a user of the app, or decide to try it out, we hope you'll like the improvements we've made. And as we think about our apps generally and plan our next steps, we'd like to hear about what you'd most like to see in future.

Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC News website.




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BBC News app

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Premier League footballer questioned over rape claims

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‘Adults buying kids toys to escape global turmoil’

Retailers are increasingly targeting the "kidult" market as family finances are squeezed.




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Is this the final chapter of the Sue Gray saga?

The government has confirmed Sue Gray will not take up her post as the PM's envoy to the nations and regions.




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The Papers: Welby quits and hospital chiefs get waiting times warning

The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and new performance measures for the NHS lead the papers.




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Inside the secret summit that tried to stop deadly rap wars

Before Shakur's murder, Jones brought stars together to discuss state of hip-hop and try to end rap violence.




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'My wife died because the NHS used cheap labour'

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Cheap fix floated for plane vapour's climate damage

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'Nothing can bring a life back': Brazil dam collapse survivors speak as UK trial begins

A lawsuit against mining company BHP starts in London on Monday over the 2015 dam collapse.




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Young England face 'baptism of fire'

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Taylor apology to Van Barneveld

Phil Taylor apologises to Raymond van Barneveld after an altercation at the end of their PDC darts semi-final.




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Bootstrap Icons v1.10.0

Bootstrap Icons v1.10.0 is here with nearly 150 new icons. This release includes tons of new variants for person, building, and database icons, plus new brands, rockets, road signs, globes, and many more. We’re now at over 1,900 icons!

150 new icons

Here’s a quick look at all the new icons in v1.10.0:

Some highlights for the new icons include:

  • 22 new person icons
  • 26 new house icons
  • 24 new building icons, including a renamed building to buildings
  • 22 new database icons
  • 24 new street sign icons
  • New globe icons
  • New EV, taxi, bus, and scooter transportation icons
  • New rockets
  • and more!

We also fixed the fill rules for several some issues across the docs, including:




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Bootstrap 5.2.3

We’ve deviated from developing v5.3.0 to ship a new patch release, Bootstrap v5.2.3, with a handful of more urgent bug fixes.

Highlights

  • Added the missing :root CSS variables to our utilities bundle
  • Fixed the deprecation warning with Sass 1.56.0
  • Fixed the RTL translate() direction for carousels
  • Fixed tooltip and popover disposal inconsistencies

We’re heading right back to it with v5.3.0 with support for color modes, new utilities, and more. Look for a pre-release of that soon.




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Bootstrap 5.3.0-alpha1

It’s a Christmas miracle—Bootstrap v5.3.0-alpha1 has arrived just in time for the holiday break! This release brings new color mode support, an expanded color palette with variables and utilities, and more.

We’re keeping things short and simple in this blog post with deeper dives into the new color modes and more coming in future posts. For now, we want you to enjoy the holiday break and come back next year feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Keep reading for what’s new and we’ll see you next year!




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Bootstrap 5.3.0-alpha2

Our second alpha release of v5.3.0 has landed with a ton of enhancements and bug fixes for our new color modes! There’s still more to come, but we’ve held off shipping until we ironed out enough issues. Huzzah, we have!

This v5.3.0 release is a monumental update for Bootstrap 5. It’s big enough that it could’ve been a v6 on its own, but we wanted to do right by the community and get color modes out the door without the massive major release upgrade. We’re getting super close now, so bear with us as we continue to chip away at this.




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Bootstrap 5.3.0-alpha3

Hot on the heels of our second alpha, we’re releasing a third (and unexpected) alpha for v5.3.0 today with some fixes for some Node Sass compilation errors. In addition, we’ve added a handful of other updates. We’re still on target to ship our stable release soon!

Once again, if you’re new to the v5.3.0 alpha releases, please read through the Migration guide for the first alpha and last month’s second alpha.

Here’s a look at what’s changed in this quick release:




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Bootstrap 5.3.0

It’s official, the final stable release of v5.3.0 has landed! It’s been a monumental effort to revamp our codebase for CSS variables and color modes, one that will see continued changes leading up to an eventual Bootstrap 6. And we’re so excited to finally ship it!

On top of all the work that’s gone into this release, a lot has happened behind the scenes since we shipped our pre-releases. Keep reading to learn everything that’s new in v5.3.0.




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Bootstrap 5.3.1

Bootstrap v5.3.1 is here with bug fixes, documentation improvements, and more follow-up enhancements for color modes. Keep reading for the highlights!

  • Color modes:
    • Increased color contrast for dark mode by replacing $gray-500 with $gray-300 for the body color
    • Added our color mode switcher JavaScript to our examples ZIP download
  • Components:
    • Improved disabled styling for all .nav-links, providing .disabled and :disabled for use with anchors and buttons
    • Add support for Home and End keys for navigating tabs by keyboard
    • Added some basic styling to toggle buttons when no modifier class is present
    • Fixed carousel colors in dark mode
  • Forms:
    • Fixed floating label disabled text color
  • Utilities:
    • .text-bg-* utilities now use CSS variables
  • Sass:
    • Add new $navbar-dark-icon-color Sass variable
    • Removed duplicate $alert Sass variables
    • Added a new variable for $vr-border-width to customize the vertical rule helper width
  • Documentation:
    • Added search to our homepage
    • Improved responsive behavior on Dashboard example
    • Improved dark mode rendering of Cheatsheet examples

Get the release

Head to https://getbootstrap.com for the latest. It’s also been pushed to npm:




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Bootstrap Icons v1.11.0

Bootstrap Icons v1.11.0 has arrived with 100 new icons—including new floppy disk icons, additional brand icons, new person icons, new emojis, some birthday cake, a few new science icons, and more. We’re now at over 2,000 icons!

100 new icons

Here’s a quick look at all the new icons in v1.11.0:

Check out the pull request for all the details on which icons were added and which were updated.




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Bootstrap 5.3.2

Bootstrap v5.3.2 is here with bug fixes, documentation improvements, and more follow-up enhancements for color modes. Keep reading for the highlights!

Highlights

  • Passing a percentage unit to the global abs() is deprecated since Dart Sass v1.65.0. It resulted in a deprecation warning when compiling Bootstrap with Dart Sass. This has been fixed internally by changing the values passed to the divide() function. The divide() function has not been fixed itself so that we can keep supporting node-sass cross-compatibility. In v6, this won’t be an issue as we plan to drop support for node-sass.
  • Using multiple ids in a collapse target wasn’t working anymore and has been fixed.

Color modes

  • Increased color contrast of form range track background in light and dark modes.
  • Fixed table state rendering for color modes with a focus on the striped table in dark mode to increase color contrast.
  • Allow <mark> color customization for color modes.

Docs

Get the release

Head to https://getbootstrap.com for the latest. It’s also been pushed to npm:




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Bootstrap 5.3.3

Bootstrap v5.3.3 is here with bug fixes, documentation improvements, and more follow-up enhancements for color modes. Keep reading for the highlights!

Highlights

  • Fixed a breaking change introduced with color modes where it was required to manually import variables-dark.scss when building Bootstrap with Sass. Now, _variables.scss will automatically import _variables-dark.scss. If you were already importing _variables-dark.scss manually, you should keep doing it as it won’t break anything and will be the way to go in v6.
  • Fixed a regression in the selector engine that wasn’t able to handle multiple IDs anymore.

Color modes

  • Badges now use the .text-bg-* text utilities to be certain that the text is always readable (especially when the customized colors are different in light and dark modes).
  • Fixed our color-modes.js script to handle the case where the OS is set to light mode and the auto color mode is used on the website. If you copied the script from our docs, you should apply this change to your own script.
  • Fixed color schemes description in the color modes documentation to show that color-scheme() only accept light and dark values as parameters.

Miscellaneous

  • Allowed <dl>, <dt> and <dd> in the sanitizer.
  • Dropped evenly items distribution for modal and offcanvas headers.
  • Fixed the accordion CSS selectors to avoid inheritance issues when nesting accordions.
  • Fixed the focus box-shadow for the validation stated form controls.
  • Fixed the focus ring on focused checked buttons.
  • Fixed the product example mobile navbar toggler.
  • Changed the RTL processing of carousel control icons.

Docs

  • Dropped unnecessary right margin for example code blocks.
  • Fixed emphasis text utilities usage in background utilities examples section.
  • Added an technical explanation on how to render an accordion expanded by default.
  • Changed Vite config path import in Vite guide.
  • Enhanced the card image description of the .card-img-* classes.
  • Mentioned shift-color() function in the Sass customization page among tint-color() and shade-color().
  • Added missing type="button" attribute to the Cheatsheet examples navigation buttons.
  • Updated the colors table in the customization page to be responsive.

Get the release

Head to https://getbootstrap.com for the latest. It’s also been pushed to npm:




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Hughes loses 50-day ban appeal

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Brae Hill wins Lincoln Handicap

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Tax-News.com: Russian Duma Approves Changes To Luxembourg And Cyprus DTAs

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Tax-News.com: German Cabinet Approves COVID-19 VAT Cut For Catering

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Tax-News.com: German Cabinet Approves COVID-19 Stimulus Package

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Tax-News.com: German Parliament Approves COVID-19 Tax Package

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Tax-News.com: German Tax Payment Relief For Airports Approved By EU

The European Commission has approved a broader support package, proposed by authorities in Germany, for German airport operators.




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India Nature Watch - The landscape of Jawai

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India Nature Watch - The scape changes every minute - another view of glorious sunset over Himalayan ranges and valley below

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Tax-News.com: Singapore Explains Changes To 2021 Tax Filing Rules

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Tax-News.com: Singapore Gazettes Legislation For 2021 Budget Changes

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Tax-News.com: Singapore Adds To Guidance On ICAP Participation

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Tax-News.com: Singapore Launches Consultation On Income Tax Reforms

Singapore's Ministry of Finance has launched a public consultation on proposed corporate tax and income tax breaks.




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Tax-News.com: Guernsey Updates MAP Guidance

On November 17, 2020, Guernsey's Revenue Service released updated guidance on Mutual Agreement Procedure dispute resolution.




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Tax-News.com: Russia's Cabinet Approves Maltese DTA Amendments

Russia's Government has approved wording for a draft Protocol that it will seek to conclude with Malta, to revise their double tax agreement to increase withholding tax rates at source for cross-border dividends and interest income.




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Tax-News.com: Malta To Continue To Apply EUR20,000 VAT Registration Threshold

Malta has received approval from EU authorities to extend its heightened value-added tax registration threshold for certain suppliers of services.




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Tax-News.com: BVI Says New Global Tax Rules Should Appreciate Offshore IFCs

The British Virgin Islands Government has released a statement expressing concerns on the proposals being discussed by the OECD to establish modernized rules for the digitalized economy, including a minimum global corporate tax rate.




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Tax-News.com: Singapore To Allow Taxpayers Longer To Report TP Adjustments

The Singaporean Government has announced it will amend provisions on transfer pricing adjustments in the draft Income Tax (Amendment) Bill 2021, which includes measures announced in the 2021 Budget, following a consultation.




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Tax-News.com: Dutch Senate Approves 2021 Tax Changes

The Dutch Senate has approved the 2021 Tax Plan package, which introduces a lower rate of corporate tax for small- and medium-sized businesses.




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Tax-News.com: Russian Duma Approves Changes To Luxembourg And Cyprus DTAs

At its December 22 plenum, Russia's lower house of parliament approved revisions to the country's double tax agreements with Cyprus and Luxembourg.




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Tax-News.com: Belgian Lawmakers Approve New Tax On Securities Trading

At a plenary session on February 11, 2021, Belgium's parliament adopted a draft law for a new annual tax on securities accounts.




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Tax-News.com: Singapore Expands Business Tax Support Schemes In 2021 Budget

Singapore announced the extension of a number of support measures for businesses in its 2021 Budget, released on February 16, 2021.




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Tax-News.com: Singapore Issues Corporate Tax Return Filing Guidance

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Tax-News.com: Cyprus Receives EU Approval For Angel Investor Tax Breaks

The European Commission has approved a Cypriot scheme involving the grant of tax breaks to private investors – both natural persons and corporate investors – who invest into early-stage, innovative SMEs.