Tour de France organizers stopped Stage 19 of the race on Friday because of a hail storm as Julien Alaphilippe lost his yellow jersey to Egan Bernal. ASO made the decision after the storm made the road too dangerous and announced that times will be taken at the top of the Col d’Iseran, where Bernal […]
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Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, has told the BBC that Boris Johnson has set the UK “on a collision course” with the EU over Brexit. He said that comments made by the UK’s new prime minister in his first appearance in the House of Commons were “very unhelpful to this process” and represented a “very
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The U.S. economy slowed sharply in the April-June quarter even as consumers stepped up their spending. The gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services, grew at a 2.1% annual rate last quarter, down from a 3.1% gain in the first quarter, the Commerce Department estimated Friday. But consumer spending, which drives
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As an optometrist in the small Arkansas town of Osceola, Matthew Jones must tell patients several times a week to seek treatment elsewhere — sometimes as far as an hour away — for procedures he says he’s fully capable of performing. “They look at me and ask, ‘Why don’t you just do it?’ I tell
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionProms 2019: Nasa director honoured by Public Service Broadcasting Christopher C Kraft, the man who founded Nasa’s mission control and oversaw the Apollo 11 moon landing, was honoured at the BBC Proms on Thursday. Public Service Broadcasting dedicated their song Go to the engineer, who died on
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Image copyright Reuters The US economy grew less than previously thought last year, missing President Donald Trump’s target of 3%. Revised official figures shows that GDP expanded by 2.5% during 2018. The figures also revealed that growth slowed during the second quarter as exports declined and companies invested less in their businesses. GDP grew at
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Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been holding a sit-in at Hong Kong International Airport in protest against the police’s slow response to last weekend’s attacks – allegedly by triad gangs – on demonstrators and passers-by. A march is planned on Saturday to the scene of last weekend’s clashes – but the rally has not been
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They frolicked in fountains, jumped in lakes and canals, waded in the sea. And no wonder. It was, after all, one of Europe’s hottest-ever days. As the temperature climbed and climbed to record highs in multiple countries Thursday, people converged on any body of water they could find. In Paris, the fountains beneath Trocadero plaza
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Photos transmitted from The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft orbiting Earth confirm that it successfully deployed its solar sail. The spacecraft was launched from Florida last month and images from this week’s deployment sequence were downlinked from the orbiter by flight controllers at California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo. One image shows a
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The Spanish Grand Prix circuit owners say no deal has yet been reached to host a Formula One race next year. Spain holds one of five F1 races whose contracts run out this year, and attendance has fallen sharply from 140,000 spectators in 2007 to 90,000 in 2018. Amid media reports a deal has been
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