Metropolitan. Maritime. Mystical. Those are the three faces of France’s rugged northwest corner, where Arthurian legends, stone circles and Celtic traditions suffuse the forests and fishing villages. Now they are closer than ever, thanks to the two-year-old LGV train line, which links Paris to the regional capital of Rennes in just 90 minutes. On arrival, […]
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Russia has sent a humanoid robot to the International Space Station as part of tests on a new rocket that is expected to replace the current vehicle. Interested in Space? Add Space as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Space news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The Soyuz capsule, which
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Tokyo’s Paralympics could be the big winner with Olympic tickets hard to find and costly. The lottery for Paralympic tickets for Japan residents opened on Thursday with 2.3 million available. The lottery closes on Sept. 9. A second lottery will be held early next year. Olympic tickets are experiencing unprecedented demand in Japan and elsewhere.
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WASHINGTON — Stephanie Grisham doled out fast food and tracked lost gear as a press wrangler on President Trump’s 2016 campaign, far from the in-crowd flying on the gold-plated Trump jet. An early and hard-working convert to Mr. Trump’s cause, she told a reporter at one point that she was “riding it until the money
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Americans’ confidence in the economy is fragile, with a majority of voters expressing concern — a potential vulnerability for President Trump if the current economic slowdown worsens before next year’s election. The stock market tumbled last week after bond prices flashed a signal that has historically been a predictor of recessions. Stocks later rebounded, but
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Swift won the Icon Award at the recent Teen Choice Awards Taylor Swift has said she intends to record new versions of her hit songs after her back catalogue was bought by pop manager Scooter Braun. In June, Swift revealed the masters of her early music had been sold
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Image copyright Cuadrilla/PA Image caption Cuadrilla said the tremor was the equivalent to “dropping a bag of shopping on the floor” Fracking at the UK’s only active site has been halted after the largest tremor yet recorded. Seismic activity with a magnitude of 1.55 was detected at the Preston New Road site near Blackpool on
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BEIDAIHE, China — Most summers, the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong, made big and fateful decisions at a funky stretch of beach a few hundred miles east of the nation’s sweltering capital. He swam in weather fair or foul. He sat cross-legged in the sand, dressed only in black trunks, his portly belly exposed
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A million electric rickshaws sprang up out of nowhere and are now being used by 60 million people a day. The government and vehicle makers are struggling to catch up. Photographs and Video by Saumya Khandelwal By Vindu Goel and Karan Deep Singh Aug. 22, 2019 NEW DELHI — It’s the morning rush hour at
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Having trouble getting tickets for next year’s Tokyo Olympics? Interested in Olympics? Add Olympics as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Olympics news, video, and analysis from ABC News. That’s no problem if you have $60,000 to spare. Tokyo Olympic organizers are offering high-end hospitality packages to Japan residents with prices
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