Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jo Brand admitted it was “a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke” Jo Brand’s controversial joke about throwing battery acid “went beyond what was appropriate” for a Radio 4 comedy show, the BBC has ruled. The corporation has partially upheld complaints about the quip made by the comedian on […]
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Image copyright Reuters Huawei’s next flagship smartphone will not come with Google’s popular apps including Maps and YouTube. Google confirmed that due to a US government ban on sales to Huawei, it could not license its apps to the Chinese smartphone giant. It also means the next Huawei phone will not have access to the
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When the French painter Gustave Courbet depicted the flat pale gray beach of the Languedoc Coast in “The Seaside at Palavas,” in 1854, it was wild and empty, which is what makes the tiny man in a suit doffing his top hat at the low dark green waves rolling in off the Golfe de Lion
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today: DOING IT ALL Jacob deGrom (8-7, 2.56 ERA) tries to stop the Mets’ five-game skid when he faces Cubs lefty Jon Lester (10-9, 4.49) in a series finale between playoff hopefuls at Citi Field. Last year’s NL Cy Young Award winner, deGrom has pitched himself right
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For Ms. Flores, the question of evolution is key. “When someone behaves badly, it’s incumbent on them — not us — it’s incumbent on them to change their behavior,” Ms. Flores said in an interview earlier this month. “It doesn’t mean that makes them, necessarily, bad people. The only thing that makes them bad is
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionIt’s a numbers game… if some people are not vaccinated, it can cause a big problem for us all Measles has returned to four European nations previously seen as free of the illness, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The disease is no longer considered eradicated
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There are some moments that need little context to still be considered fantastic — and this interaction between Sophie Turner and Hailee Steinfeld is one of them. On Monday night, the pair ran into each other at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Someone took a video of the “Game of Thrones” actor and the
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Image copyright EPA Image caption Park Geun-hye was South Korea’s first female president South Korea’s top court has set aside part of jailed former President Park Geun-hye’s conviction and ordered a retrial. The court said separate verdicts should have been reached on the bribery allegations against her and sent the case back to a lower
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A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering back. The find, from 3.8 million years ago, reveals the face for a presumed ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy, the celebrated Ethiopian partial skeleton found in 1974. This ancestral species
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Pete Alonso made a friendly offer to Kris Bryant in June, one that gave the Cubs star an appreciation for the Mets slugger’s big heart, but even more so for the breakout rookie’s big muscles. During a series between the Mets and Chicago at Wrigley Field, Alonso gave one of his specially made 34-inch, 32-ounce
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