Image caption Penny Evans, of craft group Petal and Purl, spent months creating dozens of characters for a village festival Lifesize knitted characters decked out in 1950s clothes are to tour care homes to spark reminiscences in the elderly. A family going on holiday, Gladys the church organist and a girl in a bathing costume […]
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Image copyright Matthew Murphy Image caption Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit are the lead roles in the new production Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 jukebox musical was the film equivalent of absinthe, mind-alteringly great for some, queasily awful for others. The stage musical has now arrived on Broadway with an updated soundtrack but the same
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Image copyright Getty Images Mobile operator Three says it will offer 5G on all its new and existing tariffs at no extra cost, when it launches its next-generation service. Existing customers will be able to use 5G at no extra cost – if they have a compatible handset – while new contracts will include 5G
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The Goûter Refuge — a futuristic structure that clings to a cliff at 12,516 feet — is, for many people, the final stop en route to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe, straddling the border between France and Italy. Every summer at least 20,000 people attempt the 15,776-foot summit. The
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BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories including; The US Justice Department launches a probe against tech giants it fears may have harmed competition and stunted innovation by being too big Facebook agrees to pay £4bn ($5bn) to settle privacy concerns, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal During SpaceX’s
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The heat is on for organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Several days after marking one year to go before the opening ceremony, the notorious Tokyo heat kicked in just in time for a beach volleyball test event that gave organizers a chance to implement their heat counter-measures. At the Shiokaze Park on Tokyo Bay,
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HANOVER, N.H. — Can John Hickenlooper interest you in a joke? “What’s the opposite of woe?” Mr. Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor and still-presidential-candidate, asked inside a hotel reception room last week, testing a favorite equine comedy bit before tens of listeners. “Giddy up!” A few people giggled cooperatively. All right, how about some biography?
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Dunaway has yet to comment on her dismissal Faye Dunaway has been fired from a one-woman show about fellow Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn amid claims she was abusive to backstage staff in Boston. Tea at Five had been due to transfer to Broadway but will now open in London next
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Japanese internet company SoftBank Group Corp. has set up a new fund for investing in technologies such as artificial intelligence. Tokyo-based SoftBank said Friday its $108 billion Vision Fund 2 includes $38 billion from SoftBank. The rest is from Apple, FoxConn Technology Group, Microsoft Corp., Japanese banks and other companies. SoftBank’s earlier Vision Fund 1,
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Jonathan Villar hit a two-run homer in the 16th inning and Stevie Wilkerson became the first position player in major league history to earn a save as the Baltimore Orioles recovered from blowing a three-run lead in the 15th for a wild 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels early Friday. Wilkerson came in from
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