Image copyright Steven Tanner Image caption John Pfumojena plays the title role in the new Peter Pan The opening show at a new London theatre, The Troubadour in White City, is to close two months early due to poor ticket sales. Sally Cookson’s Peter Pan made its debut at the venue a month ago and […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Trading in the biggest shares listed on the London Stock Exchange was delayed for more than an hour, in the longest outage in more than eight years. Shares in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indexes were affected, although smaller stocks traded as normal at 08:00. Trading resumed at 09:40 –
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By the time José Ramírez and the Cleveland Indians were finally done thrashing the Yankees on Thursday night, rookie designated hitter Mike Ford was at least enjoying a chuckle at his own expense on the mound for New York. This one was a laugher from the get-go, but it might not seem so funny to
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“You are the pick of my heart, but Joe is the pick of my head,” Mr. Obama told Mr. Kaine after he made his choice, according to people with knowledge of the exchange. Eleven years later, Mr. Obama’s cautions and calculations have come to roost. Mr. Obama, standard-bearer of change but conscious of the racial
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But the joke ultimately ended up being on showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, because Allen simply took the spoof development in stride. “I kind of just took it on the chin and got on with it,” Allen explained on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” Allen recalled how fellow cast
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Image copyright Getty Images Turkey’s military pension fund has reached a tentative deal to buy British Steel out of insolvency. The Turkish Armed Forces Assistance Fund (known as Oyak) says it plans to take over British Steel, which employs 5,000 people, by the end of the year. British Steel owns the Scunthorpe steel works where
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BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Concerns were raised about the use of facial recognition technology after the Financial Times revealed it was being used by a property developer in London Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano becomes the first person to DJ in space with music streamed to
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Bryce Harper blasted a grand slam with one out in the ninth inning, capping a six-run rally that sent the Philadelphia Phillies over the Chicago Cubs 7-5 Thursday night for a three-game sweep. Harper delivered his biggest hit yet in his first season with the Phillies, celebrating while running around the bases and then getting
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JERUSALEM — A day after Israel, egged on by President Trump, refused entry to two members of Congress, the Israeli government said on Friday that it would allow one of the lawmakers, Representative Rashida Tlaib, to enter on humanitarian grounds so that she could see her 90-year-old grandmother, who lives in the occupied West Bank.
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Shares of J.C. Penney surged after the ailing department store cut its quarterly losses in half and announced that it would begin selling used clothing to staunch fading sales. Retailers have been searching for ways to get people back into its stores in the decade since the global economic downturn altered consumer behavior, a period
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