Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Daddy Yankee and Rosalía are the most streamed male and female artists of the year to date There is no better measure of the world’s listening tastes than YouTube. The site reaches more than 1.9 billion people every month, more than any other music steaming service, and most of […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Chinese and Indian ethnic group workers have higher average earnings than their white British counterparts, the first official figures on the issue show. But the data on the ethnicity pay gap, showed all other ethnic groups have lower wages than white British workers. The Office for National Statistics said employees in
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The peaks of Mount Parnassus shimmered on a warm spring afternoon above the temples of ancient Delphi. In a verdant valley below, silver-tipped olive trees stretched to the sea. The sun traced a golden arc in the azure sky. On a flat plateau surrounded by this natural theater, I looked up to find myself standing
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The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local): 10:40 a.m. Garbiñe Muguruza, the 2017 Wimbledon champion, has split with her coach of about four years, Sam Sumyk. The champion at the All England Club in 2017 and French Open in 2016 wrote on Twitter that it was “the end of an Extraordinary ride. … Beyond grateful
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NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court panel will hear arguments Tuesday on whether a federal judge in Texas was correct in striking down the Affordable Care Act, a case with enormous stakes not only for millions of people who gained health insurance through the law but for the political futures of President Trump and
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Japan said Tuesday it does not plan to retract or renegotiate its stricter controls on high-tech exports to South Korea, a day after the South Korean president urged that the issue be resolved through diplomacy. Tokyo tightened the approval process for Japanese shipments of photoresists and other sensitive materials to South Korean companies last week.
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Japan’s government says it will abide by a court ruling ordering it to compensate former leprosy patients’ families over a lengthy segregation policy that severed family ties and caused long-lasting prejudice. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday the government won’t appeal the Kumamoto District Court decision in June awarding compensation to 541 plaintiffs for financial
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Renée Zellweger gets an early start generating buzz for Hollywood awards season this week with the release of the first full-length trailer for “Judy,” her hotly anticipated Judy Garland biopic. Zellweger has been spot-on as Garland in early photographs and teasers from the film, directed by Rupert Goold and due out in September. The new trailer, unveiled
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Arturo Lomeli says the Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende “is one of the most photogenic places I have ever seen.” He loves the community so much that in December, he bought an 1806 home there and has hired a team of architects, designers and skilled workers to restore it. But Mr. Lomeli, the
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In 2012, Yoko Sen was in an emergency room, tethered to a machine bleating relentlessly in her ear. She was “freaked out,” she said, and felt helpless. When a nurse returned to the room, Ms. Sen asked if it was O.K. the device was screaming. “Yeah, this thing just beeps,” she recalled the nurse saying.
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