Image copyright FCA Lloyds Banking Group has seen its profits impacted by a last-minute rush in people putting in payment protection insurance (PPI) claims. Loan customers who were mis-sold PPI have until 29 August 2019 to claim for compensation. Lloyds said it had set aside an additional £650m for future claims due to a “significant […]
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Before he played for the Detroit Pistons and then went on to be a successful WNBA coach, Bill Laimbeer spent a season playing a Sleestak on the hit television show “Land of the Lost.” He played one of the nearly 7-foot tall reptilian creatures in the first season of the show in 1974. The green
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BEIJING — Inside a bustling, 700-person newsroom in downtown Beijing, Hu Xijin leads a 24-hour propaganda machine that some media scholars call China’s Fox News. Mr. Hu was one of the first to defend China’s vast detention of Muslims against international criticism. His newspaper has described Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as crazy. Thirty years
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Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday as investors looked cautiously ahead to a key policy update from the U.S. Federal Reserve later in the day. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.9% to finish at 21,521.53. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.4% to 6,818.40. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.5% to 2,028.85. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 1.3%
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Image copyright Getty Images Disney star Cameron Boyce died a “sudden unexpected death” from epilepsy, a coroner has ruled. The 20-year-old passed away after suffering a seizure on 6 July 2019 and his family had said at the time it was due to an “ongoing medical condition.” A post-mortem was carried out on the Descendants
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Image copyright Getty Images The owner of Ladbrokes Coral has been fined £5.9m for not protecting vulnerable customers and for failings in its anti-money laundering measures. The Gambling Commission says that over a three-year period, Ladbrokes and Coral failed to put effective safeguards in place to “prevent consumers suffering gambling harm”. One customer lost £98,000
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Khris Davis hardly counted the number of days between his home runs. Wins matter so much more to him. Still, the one he hit Tuesday night sure was timely to tie the game in the eighth before Matt Olson homered with one out in the 10th inning off Josh Hader, sending the Oakland Athletics past
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Jonathan Butcher, a senior policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said that the rule would ensure that the government was “providing resources to the children who are in need and not providing resources to those who are not in need.” Right now, households that receive benefits or services from another federal welfare program, Temporary
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The isolation and desperation of two 1890s lighthouse keepers (Pattinson and four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe) on a remote islet oozes psychodrama in the preview, which dropped Tuesday. “How long have we been on this rock?” Dafoe’s Thomas says. “Five weeks? Two days?” When people start asking questions like that, the answer can never be
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Matt Thaiss homered and drove in three runs, Shohei Ohtani had three hits, Griffin Canning threw four-hit ball over six innings and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 6-1 Tuesday night. It is Thaiss’ third game with three RBIs since the All-Star break. The third baseman got the scoring started in the second
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