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Two heterosexual Irish men marry to avoid inheritance tax on property

Matt Murphy, 83, intends to leave his house to his carer Michael O’Sullivan, 58, but it would have left him with a €50,000 tax bill.

Two Irish men have married in Dublin to avoid paying €50,000 in inheritance tax on a house.

Emma McMenamy (@emmamcm) Best friends Michael O'Sullivan and Matt Murphy ahead of civil marriage in order to avoid inheritance tax.

We became very friendly after my second relationship broke up,” O’Sullivan, a father of three, told the Irish Mirror.

“Eventually Matt said the only way he could pay me was to leave me the house.

However, O’Sullivan knew that would mean a huge tax bill and the house would have to be sold to pay it.

“Then one night he turned around and said it to me and I said I would marry him.”. »

Students buy classmate replacement Nintendo 3DS

Authored by dailymail.co.uk

California student Piper Stowe shared a video of the moment she and her Antioch High School classmates gave their fellow student a new Nintendo 3DS.

This is the heartwarming moment a young child breaks down in tears after his school mates banded together to buy him a replacement for his stolen Nintendo.

Kissing Stowe on the cheek, the young boy calls her an angel from god as he wipes away his tears. »

Daily Leafy Greens May Slow Cognitive Decline

Authored by rush.edu

The study results were published in the Dec. 20, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The study results also suggest that older adults who ate at least one serving of leafy green vegetables showed an equivalent of being 11 years younger cognitively.

“The study results do not prove that eating green, leafy vegetables slows brain aging, but it does show an association,” Morris said. »

New lab-bred super corals could help avert global reef wipeout

Authored by theguardian.com

New super corals bred by scientists to resist global warming could be tested on the Great Barrier Reef within a year as part of a global research effort to accelerate evolution and save the “rainforests of the seas” from extinction.

Innovation is also moving fast in the techniques need to create new corals and successfully deploy them on reefs.

While super corals are starting to be produced in the lab, if they are to help restore reefs they will have to be successfully delivered in large numbers. »

Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount

Authored by arstechnica.com

These proposed class-action lawsuits allege largely the same thing: that over time certain iPhones exhibited lower performance and that Apple fraudulently concealed this fact from owners.

If those customers went to an Apple Store to investigate, they were encouraged to simply buy a new iPhone.

A third case, Harvey v. Apple, was filed in federal court in San Francisco, also on Thursday. »