From bachelor parties to family reunions, group trips are opportunities to explore the world with the people you love. They also have the potential to be planning messes, with scheduling, decision-making and sorting-out finances coming together in a seemingly endless and possibly disappointing snarl. But they don’t have to be. We’ve rounded up tips, tricks […]
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It was inevitable that the 2019 Women’s World Cup would become Megan Rapinoe’s moment. Months before the tournament began in June, a reporter from Eight by Eight magazine pointed the camera at the U.S. soccer star and asked the brash, outspoken forward ― who’d called President Donald Trump a “misogynist” and a “racist” and spent
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency order halting a lawsuit by congressional Democrats that alleges that President Trump has illegally profited from his family business while in office. In a court filing, the department’s lawyers asserted that Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States
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July 9 (Reuters) – Billionaire Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, plans to go public by the end of this year as part of a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created by venture-capital firms Social Capital and Hedosophia, the companies said on Tuesday. The SPAC, Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp, will take a 49%
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It takes just a twist of the wrist to determine when pears are ready to come off the tree. For plums and peaches, flesh firmness is a good way to verify maturity. Blackberries? Check the color. Nature offers a wide range of clues about when the time is ripe for harvesting fruit and minimizing losses.
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Image copyright AFP Image caption The 3,000-year-old, brown quartzite head of Tutankhamun was part of a statue of the God Amen Egypt says it will instruct a law firm in the UK to file a civil suit over the sale last week of a Tutankhamun bust. The sculpture of the pharaoh was bought for £4.7m
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Image copyright BMW BMW has given a boost to the UK car industry by confirming that the production of its new electric Mini will start in Cowley in November. Deliveries of the brand’s first fully electric car will start in March 2020. Earlier this year, a BMW board member said the company would have to
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Trendy electric scooters have been popping up on the streets of Europe for months, from Paris to Prague, allowing riders to zip along city streets with ease. But the police in Copenhagen have a clear message for potential users: Don’t drink and scoot. Over the weekend, 28 people were arrested in a crackdown on drunken
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An Austrian privacy campaigner’s long-running legal battle against Facebook over its data transfers to the U.S. reached the European Union’s highest court on Tuesday. The European Court of Justice was hearing arguments on whether Facebook’s Dublin-based subsidiary can legally transfer users’ personal data to the U.S. parent company. A decision, which is expected by the
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The Big Three sure do not appear to be slowing down. If anything, they are as dominant as ever. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic head into Wednesday’s quarterfinals at Wimbledon owning 14 of the last 16 championships at the All England Club. They have won the past 10 Grand Slam titles overall and
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