Ryan Braun has struggled at the plate for most of the season. He broke through with a big home run Friday night. Braun hit a tiebreaking two-run shot to straightaway center in the fifth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the New York Mets 3-1 on Friday night. “That’s one of those balls you don’t […]
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A professor has walked from Germany to the UK to hear what the British public think about Brexit. Prof David Martin, who lived in the UK as a teenager, hiked about 500 miles (800km) from his home city of Stuttgart to London. He said he asked everyone he met between Dover and Westminster what they
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Investing in companies or organizations that make a positive change on society can be a bit like indulging in a vice: A lot of people might enjoy it privately, but they’re not comfortable talking about it publicly. When asked about this strategy, known as impact investing, investors typically give a lukewarm response or sidestep the
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Image copyright Science Photo Library Health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is willing to look at “all options” to boost vaccination levels, including making child immunisation compulsory. Mr Hancock told the BBC he did not want to “reach the point” of imposing jabs, but would “rule nothing out”. More than half a million children
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tina Fey says David Cameron asked her to persuade the UK TV industry to make more episodes It’s not unusual for TV fans to wish that their favourite shows would carry on (Fleabag anyone?). But it seems viewers who long for more have an unlikely ally – former UK
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Image caption Rushden Lakes is one of M&S’s newer stores. A roomier store and free parking attract more shoppers, it says Seven more Marks & Spencer stores will close for the last time on Saturday, ending some long associations with town centres across England and Wales. The firm has now closed 47 shops out of
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A fifteen-year-old Nigerian boy is wowing people with his engineering talent. Hope Emmanuel Frank, from Akwa Ibom in southern Nigeria, uses wood and condemned laptop batteries to construct a moving excavator and a dump truck. In this BBC Africa One Minute Story, Hope says dreams of becoming one of world’s great inventors. Video produced by
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Amenities Inside my room, a Nespresso Essenza Mini coffee maker sat atop a mini-fridge stocked with Voss water, Coca-Cola, Fever-Tree mixers and Labatt Blue beer —- the sole Canadian product. A tiny welcome box from Montreal’s Suite88 Chocolatier delighted me, until I noticed prices on a little placard (6 to 11 dollars). The hushed, subterranean
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A Japanese aerospace startup funded by a former internet maverick successfully launched a small rocket into space Saturday, making it the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach orbit. Interstellar Technology Inc. said the unmanned MOMO-3 rocket exceeded 100 kilometers (60 miles) in altitude before falling into the Pacific Ocean. It was launched from the
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IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday he has “a lot of sympathy” for Caster Semenya after the South African runner lost her Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal in a landmark case against track and field’s governing body. Based on Wednesday’s CAS decision, Semenya, who won the 800 meters at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics,
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