104-yr-old woman forced to lie about age on FB
A 104-year-old woman in Michigan, Marguerite Joseph, can be forgiven for lying about her age on Facebook, due to a problem on the social networking website that is making her lie about her actual age. Joseph’s granddaughter Gail Marlow said her grandmother was unable to list her real age.
According to Fox News, Marlow said when she tried inputting her grandmother’s birth year as 1908, Facebook changed it to 1928. So for the past two years, the centenarian has remained 99 online, anyway. Joseph is legally blind and cannot hear well, but Marlow reads and responds to all of her Facebook messages, the report said.
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Nadhim Zahawi: Rishi Sunak's successor whose family fled Saddam Hussein's regime
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday appointed Nadhim Zahawi as the new chancellor of the exchequer, replacing Rishi Sunak who had earlier resigned from the cabinet in protest against Johnson's leadership. Zahawi's appointment also comes at a time when the British government is trying to tackle the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. As a trained chemical engineer, Zahawi went on to work in the oil industry. He backed Brexit in 2016.
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Why property developers in China accepting house payments in watermelons, wheat
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Homes of 85,000 people at risk, but rain eases around Sydney
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‘Will have to drag him kicking and screaming': UK PM Boris Johnson on the brink
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‘Cannot continue like this’: What Rishi Sunak said as he quit Johnson cabinet
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