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The crime survey for England and Wales, which is based on people's experience of crime, shows that the underlying crime rate, excluding cybercrime, continued to fall, by 8% to an estimated 6.5m offences in the 12 months to June.

Crime had continued to fall by a quarter since 2010, the number of officers in frontline policing had increased, while the backlog in asylum cases was cleared and the border made more secure, she said.

Burberry said sales in Hong Kong continued to fall by double-digit percentages, as a result of travel restrictions that were imposed on Chinese nationals after democracy demonstrations last year.

The number of district nurses has continued to fall (by 44% since 1999) as the number trained is increasingly exceeded by those leaving and retiring – 27% of the workforce is aged over 50.

But while there is mounting evidence that the decade-long decline in violent crime is over, the latest results from the authoritative Crime Survey for England and Wales show that overall crime continued to fall, by 7%, with an estimated 6.4m offences in 2015.

At the same time, a report showed that U.S. durable goods orders continued to fall by 1.3% last month.

One approach is to assume that the global poverty rate continues to fall by roughly one percentage point a year, as it has since the 1980s.

The drop was slightly less than in the same period last year but the population continues to fall by about one million people annually.

Tokyo's original plans for a compact Olympics in 2020 continue to fall by the wayside, with a government panel set to propose moving more venues outside of the city – including hundreds of miles away – in order to save money.

And evidence that unemployment is continuing to fall – by a total of 57,000 in the three months to May, according to the latest official figures – raises the hope that the recent hints of recovery are feeding through into real lives and sustainable growth.

Because of it, cervical cancer death rates in the U.S. fell by 74% between 1955 and 1992, and continue to fall by about 4% each year.