Image copyright Reuters Image caption Doubts have been raised over whether it is the same gun van Gogh used to kill himself The gun which Vincent van Gogh may have used to kill himself has sold for €162,500 (£144,000; $182,000) – almost three times more than expected. The rusty revolver was purchased by a private […]
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Image copyright Getty Images A UK government-backed bank, set up to boost lending to small firms following the financial crisis, has loaned £500m since 2012, official figures show. New data from the British Business Bank shows London has gained a disproportionate share of the funds, with 14,000 of nearly 70,000 start-up firms loaned £118m. Fewer
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School’s out for summer and Swedish lawyer Pia Bjorstrand, her husband and their two sons are shouldering backpacks, ready to board the first of many trains on a whistle-stop vacation around northern Europe. The family is part of a small but growing movement in Europe and North America that’s shunning air travel because it produces
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Residents are getting their first chance to weigh in on changes to a California measure that would give state public health officials oversight of doctors who grant a high number of medical exemptions for vaccinations and schools with vaccination rates less than 95%. The Assembly Health Committee’s hearing is expected to draw hundreds of people
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Ryan McMahon and the Rockies found a way to stack hits against Arizona ace Zack Greinke, and those hits led to another Colorado victory. McMahon hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the seventh inning to make up for a costly error, and the Rockies added on in a 6-4 win over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday
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“The War on Drugs has been a war on people, tearing families apart, ruining lives, and disproportionately affecting people of color and low-income individuals — all without making us safer,” Mr. Booker said in a statement. “Granting clemency won’t repair all the damage that has been done by the War on Drugs and our broken
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Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever with Vietnam culling 2.5 million pigs and China reporting more than a million dead in an unprecedentedly huge epidemic some governments fear has gone out of control. Smaller outbreaks have been reported in Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, Cambodia and
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“We have schools in Africa!” – Elijah Lawal Author Elijah Lawal wants readers to think about race and “call out stereotypes”. “I like to use the metaphor of talking about race as going to the dentist – it’s unpleasant, but you have to go, otherwise, things will
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Slack Technologies, a messaging service used by companies across the world, has been valued at around 16 billion dollars. It’s one of several high-profile tech companies, including Uber and Lyft, going public this year. But plenty of companies which are valued at billions are yet to make a profit. The BBC’s Consumer Correspondent Colletta Smith
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June is Pride month in New York City, a time when it feels like nearly everyone in the five boroughs is a member of the family or a trusted ally. That sense of community will be surpassed this year as New York celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the night in 1969 when
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