Image caption Self Esteem: “There’s no HR in music. No-one cares about your wellbeing.” Pop history, like all history, is written by the winners. So imagine what it’s like being stuck in a moderately successful indie band in an era of Ed Sheeran and Drake and Adele. While they’re off winning awards and selling out […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Goliath groupers make a booming noise when approached We have a long history of trying to use animals as spies, weapons and warning systems, but the latest plans to use marine organisms as motion sensors may be the strangest yet. When a beluga whale was spotted wearing a harness
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A government official has admitted to 46 people being killed by paramilitaries during pro-democracy protests in the capital Khartoum. However, doctors and hospital workers have told the BBC they believe the figure is over 100, including a child thought to be as young as six. The violence intensified on Monday when security forces stormed a
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Like a Trojan horse, that can opener could sneak modernist ideas through the front door. Under the museum’s founding director, Alfred Barr, and later, René d’Harnoncourt, who became director in 1949, the Modern hyped its design initiatives on radio shows and via the emerging medium of television, with curators appearing on morning programs to demonstrate
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LeBron James called for “swift action” against a Golden State Warriors minority owner who shoved Toronto Raptors player Kyle Lowry during game three of the NBA Finals Wednesday night. The Los Angeles Lakers star and philanthropist wrote a lengthy post on Instagram Thursday, denouncing the recent behavior of Mark Stephens, a venture capitalist who joined the
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Peterborough’s former MP Fiona Onasanya was sacked by her constituents in the first successful re-call petition prompting a by-election. The East Anglian city voted to leave the EU by 62% in 2016, but Ms Onasanya’s successor will also have to address local issues in education, crime and homelessness. For BBC1’s This Week. political correspondent Ben
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Image copyright Getty Images This weekend, festival season kicks off for many in the UK, with thousands of people expected to attend Parklife in Manchester and Field Day in London. Around the world, millions of people are preparing to go to similar open-air music events this summer such as Exit Festival in Serbia and Lollapalooza
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Image copyright PA Cash use is falling, with predictions that fewer than one in 10 transactions will be completed with notes and coins in 10 years’ time. Ten years ago, cash was used in six out of 10 payments, but it has been overtaken in popularity by debit cards, driven by the use of contactless
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Nigerians who have their hair natural styled in dreadlocks sometimes find themselves viewed in a negative light. The police are accused of profiling young Nigerians who’ve had their hair styled this way, suspecting them of being in gangs. Ehiz ‘Dada Boy Ehiz’ Okoeguale, a TV presenter and Ade Balogun, a ‘loctician’ don’t believe they need
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The Museum of Modern Art owns only three paintings by Vincent van Gogh, but they include its biggest crowd-pleaser: “The Starry Night,” which the Dutchman completed in 1889, shortly after having checked into a psychiatric hospital. It has hung in the first gallery on the fifth floor since 2004, when MoMA opened its expansion by
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