Image copyright CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU Image caption Karina Canellakis took up the baton after being encouraged by Sir Simon Ratt;e Karina Canellakis has made history, as the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms. The US musician led the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers in a stirring and dramatic […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The timing couldn’t be worse. Just as many of us are preparing to jet off on our much awaited summer holiday break, the pound has taken a further tumble. Tourist exchange rates are based on how the pound trades on international money markets. Lately it hasn’t been good. This week, sterling
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The Canadian government says two more rare North Atlantic right whales have been found dead in the country’s waters, worsening a disastrous year for the marine mammals. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the causes of the animals‘ deaths aren’t yet known. Officials say a necropsy will take place for one of the animals Sunday in
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Keith Thurman certainly seems like more than the modern Manny Pacquiao should be able to handle. Thurman (29-0, 22 KOs) is a decade younger, certainly more powerful and maybe even a bit faster than his famously speedy opponent. Thurman is a tough, voluble welterweight champion in his prime competitive years, and Pacquiao represents the biggest
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Sam Smith may be best known as a tear-jerking balladeer, but he’s taking a different approach on his latest single, offering up summery beats and slinky dance moves. The four-time Grammy winner dropped the music video for “How Do You Sleep?” early Friday, and it’s quite a departure from his previous work. “How do you sleep when
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Image copyright Getty Images The government has insisted that a review of the cost of a new high-speed railway linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds is continuing. The assurances come despite the project reportedly needing an extra £30bn. HS2 chairman Allan Cook has written to the Department for Transport to warn that the project will
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Offensive lineman Mitch Petrus, a walk-on at Arkansas who went on to a three-year NFL career that included a Super Bowl win with the New York Giants, has died. He was 32. Pulaski County Coroner Gerone Hobbs said Petrus died of heat stroke Thursday night at a North Little Rock
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Hoping to reinvigorate the program, President George Bush announced on the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11, in 1989, an initiative to return to the moon and then to go to Mars. “Why the moon? Why Mars?” Bush asked. “Because it is humanity’s destiny to strive, to seek, to find. And because it is America’s destiny
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It almost makes sense that Kristen Bell and Lin-Manuel Miranda had never met before because we truly didn’t know if a single room could contain that much charisma. And yet San Diego Comic-Con didn’t implode on Friday when the two finally crossed paths after stanning each other on the internet, and we’re all the better
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A pocket-sized pocket shark found in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be a new species. And the mysterious pouches that it’s named for, up near its front fins? Scientists say they squirt little glowing clouds into the ocean. Researchers from around the Gulf and in New York have named the species the
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