Ariana Grande wrote a candid note to fans on Sunday after a video showed the singer openly crying and unable to get through a song at a concert in St. Louis, Missouri, the night before. In a now-deleted Instagram post, Grande said that tour life is “wild” and told fans that sometimes, she struggles with it […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Primark founder and chairman Arthur Ryan has died after a short illness, the budget fashion chain has announced. Mr Ryan founded the High Street retailer as Penny’s in 1969 in his hometown of Dublin in Ireland. Fifty years on, the chain has expanded to over 350 stores in 11 countries across
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From iron works in Burkina Faso that date back nearly three millenniums, to the fortified and planned city of Jaipur in India, to the Guggenheim museum in Manhattan, Unesco has added a broad array of cultural and natural marvels to its World Heritage List. To be included on the list, a site must meet at
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Justin Verlander will start the All-Star Game for the American League for the second time, and Hyun-Jin Ryu will make his first start for the National League. Verlander, a 36-year-old right-hander, is 10-4 with a 2.98 ERA this year for the Houston Astros, striking out 153 in 126 2/3 innings. He allowed five runs in
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Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has responded to the leak of diplomatic cables written by Sir Kim Darroch, the UK’s ambassador to Washington saying he had been “betrayed”. Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan told the Commons that if ambassadors “speak truth unto power, they will never be personally criticised for doing so, indeed, sometimes,
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The summer box office is known for action-packed hits, beloved remakes and long-awaited sequels. This year is no exception with Spider-Man: Far from Home, the Lion King and Toy Story 4 hitting the big screen. Of course summer movies have high entertainment value, but some can also offer valuable opportunities for out-of-school learning. Students benefit
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Harrison has regularly spent time in hospital with issues stemming from his condition Mystery Jets singer Blaine Harrison has said his new song is shaped by the “frustrations and fears” about the future of the NHS. “In the post-austerity era of cuts, one of the communities that have felt
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Image caption Goldings has been struggling to cope with changes in shopping habits A 152-year-old family-run hardware shop is to close as town centre footfall has become “pretty much non-existent”. Goldings in Bedford High Street opened in 1867 but its owners said competition from the internet and multinational firms made it impossible to continue. Announcing
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Navigating airports can be tricky. They’re loud, crowded and not always laid out intuitively. They’re even more challenging for visually impaired people. Chieko Asakawa knows those challenges firsthand, and she has also devised a remedy. Asakawa has been blind since she was 14 and is now an IBM Fellow and a professor in Carnegie Mellon
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Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that is the most well-preserved on Earth. Northern Arizona has had deep ties to the Apollo missions: Every moon-walking astronaut trained here, and
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