内容摘要：Francis, 88, has been in the post since 2013, when he was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.

Francis, 88, has been in the post since 2013, when he was elected to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.

Some may use yoga mats and virtual reality headsets to mentally escape the daily grind but now statisticians are using them to chart the rising cost of living.Both items have made their way into the basket of goods and services used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to calculate inflation.

The basket contains 752 items. The ONS collects the costs of these products and services across many different retailers to come up with the monthly inflation figures.That figure, currently showing, is a crucial economic measure which influences the cost of borrowing - interest rates - as well as rises in benefits and pensions or to form part of pay negotiations.

The contents of this huge basket of goods and services is reviewed every year to ensure it gives an accurate cross-section and weighting of our spending data.But what is added or removed each time also gives us a fascinating insight into our changing tastes, trends and lifestyles.

For example, wild rabbit was one item included in the first list of 1947. Tea bags only made it in by 1980.

This time around, 23 items have been added and 15 removed  from the basket.The continent's leaders, he added, were "wondering, well, what do I do now?... Can I rely on the United States? Are they going to be there?"

Trump has said he expects Russia to keep the Crimean peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, and last month he accused Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky of harming peace negotiations when Zelensky rejected the suggestion.not only include formal US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, but also de facto US recognition of Russian control of other occupied areas in Ukraine. The White House has not publicly confirmed the details.

"I have no favourites. I don't want to have any favourites. I want to have a deal done," Trump said last month when asked about recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea."Yes, of course, [the Ukrainians] are angry that they were invaded,"