Image copyright Getty Images Children in England face a postcode lottery when it comes to getting speech and language therapy, a report claims. England’s Children’s Commissioner says that in the top 25% of areas, at least £291.65 a year is spent on children with these needs. In the lowest quarter that drops to £30.94 or […]
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Marcello lives in the favela of Rocinha. Patrick lives in the swanky district of São Conrado beside it. From opposite ends of Rio de Janeiro’s social spectrum, the two make improbable friends, but a love of surfing at their local beach has brought them together. In Rio de Janeiro, São Conrado beach’s waves attract surfers
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Private equity firm Apollo Global Management is buying online photo publishing company Shutterfly for $51 per share. Apollo will pay $1.74 billion for the 20-year-old company, which became popular offering its users prints and photobooks of their favorite shots. But demand for that type of service has declined as people opt to share photos online
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The Latest from Monday night’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals (all times local): 8:50 p.m. “The Great One” is in Toronto to see if the Raptors can win their first one. Hockey icon Wayne Gretzky is among the celebrities at Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Toronto. Several other big names from the
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WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of images of travelers and license plates stored by the Customs and Border Protection agency have been stolen in a digital breach, officials said Monday, prompting renewed questions about how the federal government secures and shares personal data. An official at the agency said it learned on May 31 that
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Raytheon and United Technologies will join to create a massive aerospace and defense company in a sector that is already rapidly consolidating. The combined company, which will count among its portfolio of weaponry the F-35 fighter jet engines, Patriot and Tomahawk missile systems in addition to space suits and intelligence technology as well as Pratt
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Image caption Menpaw Mro lost his daughter to malaria A ground-breaking study in Bangladesh has found that using data from mobile phone networks to track the movement of people across the country can help predict where outbreaks of diseases such as malaria are likely to occur, enabling health authorities to take preventative measures. Every year,
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Clooney directs, produces and stars in the new adaptation of Catch 22 Until now, George Clooney has been a silver fox who has largely stuck to the silver screen. Despite originally making his name in the 1990s medical drama ER, the last two decades have seen him stick to
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologized to the LGBTQ community at a tech conference Monday after the company came under fire for not taking action against homophobic content on its video-sharing platform. “I know that the decision we made was very hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and that wasn’t our intention at all,” Wojcicki said at Vox
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After the US pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Iran, Tehran said it will not negotiate another deal with Washington. There has been a deterioration in relations between the US and Iran since April, when the US ended sanctions exemptions, effectively banning all Iranian oil exports. Iran has threatened that if its oil
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