Number of marriages at new low
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The number of marriages in England and Wales has slumped to the lowest level on record, it was announced today.
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More than 25 percent of married couples in Briton have lost one or both of their wedding rings since tying the knot, according to a survey released.
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Women are underrepresented in public life and face financial penalties for starting a family, a new study has claimed.
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Roman Catholic Italy is witnessing a boom in demand for posthumous marriage annulments with many unions hitting the rocks as soon as one of the partners is lowered into the ground.
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The number of abortions in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005, the lowest level since 1974 and down 25 percent from the all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, according to report issued Thursday.
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The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the death row population fell for the third year in a row, the government reported Sunday.
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Amid economic slump, region's new residential building permits fall to lowest levels since 1991.
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Human genome researchers have said we have about 10,000 or 20,000 fewer genes than they originally estimated.
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Dissolving troubled marriages is becoming a prominent topic of public discussion and political activity.
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Deputy Prime Minister Tonio Borg said that between January and August 2004 there were 418 civil marriages in Malta and in the first ten months of this year there were 34 such marriages in Gozo.
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The number of people out of work in the UK fell by 29,000 between August and October to 1.39 million, the latest official figures have shown.
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October saw the lowest number of new mortgage approvals in the UK since January 2000, official figures show.
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The percentage of new recruits entering the Army with a high school diploma dropped to a new low in 2007, according to a study released yesterday, and Army officials confirmed that they have lowered their standards to meet high recruiting goals in the middle of two ongoing wars.
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Internet sites such as Friends Reunited are unwittingly fuelling a surge in marital break-up as bored husbands and wives contact old flames, relationship counsellors warned yesterday as official figures showed divorce has reached a seven-year high.
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The number of first-time home buyers in the UK has sunk to its lowest point since 1980, mortgage lender Halifax says.
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Housing starts fell to their lowest level in 12 years last month, while permits for new construction also declined, pointing to a further weakening of an already battered housing market.
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The number of abortions performed in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005 -- the lowest level since 1976, according to a new report.