“It seems like anytime Donald Trump feels threatened by a strong woman, he lashes out with this gross, weird attack,” her communications director, Lily Adams, wrote the next day. “It’s the kind of sexism that makes me want to run my head through a wall. But instead of doing that, let’s do something productive. I […]
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China on Tuesday criticized Washington’s efforts to enforce U.S. law abroad following a news report three Chinese banks might be penalized over dealings with North Korea. The banks named by The Washington Post as facing possible loss of access to the U.S. financial system denied they were under investigation. The Post said a court found
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Image copyright ITV/Shutterstock Image caption Jeremy Kyle turned down a request to appear before MPs The Jeremy Kyle Show’s bosses have been criticised by MPs for putting guests through lie detector tests without knowing how accurate those tests were. Damian Collins MP, chair of the House of Commons culture select committee, said the producers’ lack
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Image copyright Getty Images A social mobility charity says top professions in the UK are still unduly dominated by people who have gone through private schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities. The Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission analysed the educational background of 5,000 people in top jobs. It found these influential people were five
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Orangutans at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn zoo are keeping cool with buckets of water as much of Europe swelters in a summer heat wave. Keepers gave Vladimir, Sol and Mota wet sponges, water hoses and a large tub to frolic about with as temperatures pushed 32 C (almost 90 F) in the Austrian capital Tuesday. Authorities in
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IOC President Thomas Bach has called on local governments to resist promoting independently run sports events that he believes go against the Olympic ideal. Bach says the organizers of profit-driven sporting ventures are “cherry picking” events without sharing the International Olympic Committee’s duty to use profits to help athletes around the world. He tells the
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A Conservative peer who fainted at the despatch box has thanked those who came to her aid. Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford was discussing the hospital listeria outbreak on 17 June when she collapsed. The 39-year-old suffers from the rare genetic condition Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which causes heart problems, migraines, and severe joint and muscle pain.
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Image copyright PA A woman has won an appeal against a court ruling that would have seen her mentally ill daughter forced to have an abortion. She appealed a decision made last week granting permission for specialists to end the pregnancy. Three Court of Appeal judges in London upheld the appeal, overturning the previous decision.
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Image copyright Katja Ogrin Image caption Stephen Knowles’ living room has been described as a “mini-museum” to Black Sabbath A Black Sabbath super fan has had his living room rebuilt at a museum as part of an exhibition celebrating 50 years of the band. Stephen Knowles said his room was his own mini museum to
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Image caption About 900 jobs are set to be lost at Kerry Foods’ Burton-upon-Trent factory A town’s biggest employer is shutting its factory with 900 jobs being axed. Union representatives said the closure of Kerry Foods in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, was a “calamity” for the town and they will meet with management on Friday. Unite the
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