Image copyright Just Giving Image caption Simon Brown was killed on the Gatwick Express in August 2016 A rail firm has been fined £1m after a man died leaning out of a train window. Simon Brown, 24, was killed when he hit his head on a steel gantry on the side of the track while […]
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In early January, a guest stayed in room 812 at the Hotel Alex Johnson, in Rapid City, S.D. As the anonymous visitor wrote in the guest book the next morning, the night was a bit more than uneventful. “The Hilton app does not warn you about ghosts when you select a room,” the guest wrote.
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The Group of Seven rich democracies’ top finance officials gathered Wednesday at a chateau near Paris in search of common ground on the threats posed by digital currencies. The two-day meeting, however, risks being overshadowed by rifts over France’s plan to tax Facebook, Google and other American technology giants. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plans
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Matt Chapman has no idea why his swing feels so good right now, but he’s certainly getting the results to show for it. “I’m just going to call it dumb luck,” he said. Chapman homered and drove in five runs, leading the Oakland Athletics past the Seattle Mariners 9-2 on Tuesday night for their fifth
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“I hope the lesson the N.R.C.C. draws from that is to not do it again,” Mr. Gallagher said. Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois and another veteran, told Politico: “The president’s got his own unique style. I don’t think we need to mimic it.” When Mr. Rooney saw the statement on Twitter, reposted by a
More than a year after Beyoncé took the 2018 Coachella festival by storm, her instantly iconic, history-making performance continues to pay dividends. In April, the singer and actress released “Homecoming,” a Netflix documentary and live album capturing her Coachella set for posterity. The film received near-universal critical acclaim and on Tuesday scooped up six Emmy Award nominations, including
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Image copyright Getty Images Swatch has reported falling sales and profits following a crackdown on unofficial sales of its watches, and political trouble in one of its most important markets, Hong Kong. The owner of the Omega and Longines brands said net income fell 11% to 415m Swiss francs (£340m; $420m) in the first half.
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Bad dreams die fast. When I told a salesman at the New York City outpost of REI, the camping supplies store, that I was going camping for four days only 40 miles outside of Chicago, we launched into a conversation about safety in the woods. “You’re not gonna see bears,” he told me, “but you
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[Read all Times reporting on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. | Sign up for the weekly Science Times email.] A Chinese philosopher once said that exploration was a form of play. So it is fitting that the early artifacts of the Apollo moon landings, the grandest feat of exploration ever attempted,
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Bryce Harper threw his helmet off rounding the bases, thrust his arms in the air and screamed while teammates stormed out of the dugout to mob him. That’s what Philadelphia has been waiting for from its $330 million man. Harper hit a two-run double off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen with one out in the bottom
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