At the world track championships, it’s as if the world’s biggest country simply doesn’t exist. Suspended for its second world championships due to doping, Russia has sent 30 “Authorized Neutral Athletes” who can’t wear national colors. The icon next to their name on television and on the scoreboards in the stadium is the “IAAF” logo […]
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WASHINGTON — For the third time in a week, the United States military carried out an airstrike on Thursday against Islamic State fighters in southern Libya amid indications the terrorist group was seeking to exploit the country’s civil strife to increase its recruiting. The Pentagon’s Africa Command said in a statement on Friday that the
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Image copyright Met Police Image caption Gurgana Gueorguieva was jailed for robbery A former lover of film director Michael Winner has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years for a violent robbery against his widow. Geraldine Winner, now 81, was robbed of at least £100,000 worth of jewellery, art and cash during the raid at her Knightsbridge
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If you have ever traveled through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, you would have seen the handiwork of the Dutch wayfinding design firm Mijksenaar, whose signs, maps and other visual information systems have been part of the facility’s landscape since 1990. While Schiphol, one of the world’s busiest airports, with more than 71 million passengers last year,
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Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Greetings from New York Times HQ in Midtown Manhattan. I’m Natasha Singer, a tech reporter covering privacy, and I’m bringing you the week’s tech news. While many eyes were focused on the impeachment saga playing out in
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For a team filled with young players at key spots, Arizona State has a knack at performing at its best in the toughest situations. Eno Benjamin scored his third touchdown of the game on a 3-yard run with 4:41 remaining, and Arizona State beat No. 15 California 24-17 on Friday night for its second road
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Mr. Sanford’s change in fortune had been apparent all day. It is less exciting, for example, to watch a football game while wedged in the middle of a row of beer-guzzling, high-fiving, highly excited just-out-of-college guys on a sweltering day than it would be to observe it with your grateful adult friends from the uncrowded
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Image copyright Getty Images Comedian Lilly Singh, who made the leap from YouTube to late night TV just last week, has apologised for an on-air joke that compared turbans to bath towels. Some members of the Sikh religion, who wear turbans for spiritual reasons, were angered by her remarks on NBC. On Twitter she apologised
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption It is estimated people in Stoke-on-Trent owe £80m to high-cost lenders One in every 200 adults in Stoke-on-Trent became insolvent in 2018 – the highest rate in England and Wales. The BBC spoke to some who are managing to claw their way out of debt, and to those helping
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SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, Italy — They paraded through the cobblestone streets, brandishing tall brushes like batons, a peppy — if sooty — bunch who occasionally called out: “spazzacaminoooooo,” Italian for chimney sweep (with a few extra o’s for emphasis). Along the parade path, children held plastic bags open, hoping to catch the presents tossed by
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