Image caption Zosha Di Castri’s latest work looks at humankind’s evolving relationship with the moon The BBC Proms blasts off on Friday with a musical exploration of the moon. The season opens with Zosha Di Castri’s latest work Long Is the Journey – Short Is the Memory, which marks the 50th anniversary of the lunar […]
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The latest sales figures released on Friday by the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira) show an average fall of -2.94% compared to the same three months last year. Scotland saw the sharpest fall in the UK compared to April, May and June in 2018. East Anglia was the only region reporting that sales had increased
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BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories including: Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, comes under attack at a US Senate hearing New emojis, including a wheelchair user and people with a hearing aid, are revealed A hybrid drone which can hover, glide and takes-off vertically has been developed See
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone got fired up at a rookie umpire in a profane rant , and New York awoke from a sleepy start to rally past the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 in a doubleheader opener Thursday. After Domingo Germán gave up solo homers to his first two batters, Gio Urshela hit a tying home
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WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers accused Kevin K. McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, of leading an agency with an “empathy deficit” during a hearing on Thursday that focused on the separation of migrant children from their parents and reports of poor conditions at holding facilities near the border. “What does that mean when a
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The Environmental Protection Agency rejected a key legal challenge Thursday to a pesticide linked to brain damage in children, saying environmental groups had failed to prove that a ban was warranted. The agency’s defense of continued use of the widely used bug-killer chlorpyrifos could set the stage for a pivotal federal court decision on whether
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The 17-year-old ― and his perfectly coiffed hair ― is part of the new campaign for McGrath’s Sublime Perfection the System product launch for primer, foundation and powder. He posted a still from the campaign, shot by Steven Meisel, writing on his Instagram that he was “So excited to show you guys something secret I’ve
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Image copyright Twitter @Pat_MercadoC Image caption The ad offered a bottle of wine, a chocolate bar and a packet of condoms for those wanting to “celebrate” with their secretary The international chain of convenience stores Circle K has offered a public apology in Mexico after it tweeted an offer which was widely decried as sexist
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PALEKH, Russia — Once upon a time, the small, picturesque Russian village of Palekh gained fame far and wide for producing religious icons. Then one day, a revolution came and its adherents, growling, “There is no god,” banned such art. Hundreds of artists eventually learned to adorn lacquer boxes instead, painting scenes from Russian fairy
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Protesters didn’t back down from their long-running effort to stop construction of a $1.4 billion telescope, blocking a road Thursday to the top of a mountain sacred to some Native Hawaiians a day after authorities arrested nearly three dozen people. Activists have fought the Thirty Meter Telescope in the courts and on the streets for
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