Image copyright Amy House An art teacher who started paying off her student loans more than a decade ago still owes about $88,000 – despite being promised the loan would have been written off by now. How has that happened? Kelly Finlaw has a little speech that she recites at the start of each academic […]
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Lilly King won the 50-meter breaststroke at the world swimming championships, giving the American two victories over Russian rival Yuliya Efimova on Sunday. They were denied a third meeting when King was disqualified in the heats of the 200 breast for not putting both her hands on the wall at the same time in a
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Fifteen-year-old Jaden Ashman has won half of $2.25 million (£1.8m) after coming second with his teammate in the Fortnite World Cup finals. He started playing the game on the day it came out and spent as many as eight hours daily practising in his room. Forty million players attempted to qualify over 10 weeks of
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J.D. Martinez and Andrew Benintendi homered as the Boston Red Sox again hit balls all over and out of Fenway Park, battering the New York Yankees 9-5 Saturday. The Red Sox have outscored the Yankees 38-13 to win the first three of a four-game set. This was the sixth straight game Boston has scored eight
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The round £1 coin was demonetised at midnight on 15 October 2017 Twenty four million old-style £1 coins have been returned to the Royal Mint over the last year. But that still leaves 145 million outstanding – even though people have been unable to spend them in shops since
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Rookie Fernando Tatis Jr. keeps finding new ways to impress the San Diego Padres. One minute, he was hitting the deck to avoid a knockdown pitch. The next minute, he was swatting a two-run home run to help the Padres cool off the San Francisco Giants 5-1 Saturday night to snap an eight-game home losing
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Not everyone agrees: Some argue that just focusing on Mr. Trump will not be enough to mobilize an increasingly diverse and liberal party. To win, they argue, Democrats must energize the minority and young voters who have moved to the left on social and economic issues. Those voters, they say, want to hear more than
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Michael Gove, the newly appointed chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is in charge of preparing for a no-deal Brexit The government is now “working on the assumption” of a no-deal Brexit, Michael Gove has said. Mr Gove said his team still aimed to come to an agreement with
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Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward insists reliever Rafael Montero wasn’t intentionally trying to plunk Ramon Laureano with a pitch two innings after the Oakland hitter took a slow home run trot. Laureano isn’t so certain. “The pitching coach (Julio Rangel) went up there two pitches before so that’s a little suspicious,” Laureano said after the
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Image caption Mike and family: Three generations having a ball together on holiday Whether people are holidaying at home or abroad, multi-generational holidays are on the rise. Mike, his parents Stella and Robert, his kids James and Jessica and his partner Claire are all holidaying together in Matlock. Mike jokes that “it helps they’ve got
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