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Discover how to lead a better life in our age of confusion.
Enjoy this BBC audiobook collection written and presented by best selling author Oliver Berkman, containing four useful guides to tackling some central ills of modernity, busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance.
Our lives today can feel like miniature versions of this relentless churn of activity.
We find we're rushing around more crazily than ever.
Somewhere when we weren't looking.
It's like busyness became a way of life.
Start listening to Oliver Epidemics of Modern Life.
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Hi there, I'm Katrina Perry from the BBC World Service.
This is the global story.
President elect Donald Trump has been given an unconditional discharge over his conviction on multiple charges of fraud.
Fraud.
The sentence handed down in New York means he avoids prison or a fine, but it confirms his status as the first US President with a felony conviction.
Donald Trump attended via a video link and addressed the court insisting the case was a political witch hunt.
I think it's an embarrassment to New York and New York has a lot of problems, but this is a great embarrassment and I'd just like to exclaim that I was treated very, very unf.
As the cataclysmic wildfires rage across Los Angeles, Donald Trump has pointed the finger at California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Inauguration Day is now just over a week away and lawmakers in D.C.
are gearing up for a series of confirmation hearings on Trump's controversial cabinet nominees.
Will they all make it through?