You don’t remain the most likable man in Hollywood for decades without a respect for the hustle, so it was only natural that Tom Hanks found a kindred spirit in Jennifer Lopez and her fellow “Hustlers” cast during a celebrity run-in we never knew we needed. It was game recognize game at the Toronto Film Festival over […]
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Image copyright Getty Images It’s not been a great centenary celebration for British Airways. The operator officially reached the 100-year landmark on 25 August, just as the prospect of this week’s two-day pilots’ strike was starting to panic tens of thousands of customers. To rub salt into the wounds, a report by reputation management company
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Rani Bhati is a teacher on a mission, to get children in her community who have left school back into mainstream education. She goes door to door in her village near Delhi to persuade families that they will be better off with a child in school rather than working. The programme she works on, run
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Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz threw out the first pitch before Monday night’s game against the New York Yankees. It was his first public appearance since June, when he was shot and seriously injured in his native Dominican Republic. Red Sox and Yankees players stood near their dugouts and applauded as Ortiz was
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WASHINGTON — Back in 2014, soon after acquiring a golf resort in Scotland, Donald J. Trump entered a partnership with a struggling local airport there to increase air traffic and boost tourism in the region. The next year, as Mr. Trump began running for president, the Pentagon decided to ramp up its use of that
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A former paramedic who was diagnosed with PTSD says cycling has been key to her recovery. Erica Smith suffered flashbacks after caring for a woman who had been badly beaten by her partner and later died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. Nine years later, Ms Smith decided to quit her job with
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Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood will premiere a new piece, Horror Vacui, at the BBC Proms on 10 September 2019. The work promises to “explore the characteristics of electronically-created music and transfer them into the acoustic arena”. Here is an exclusive glimpse of rehearsals for the piece, filmed with the Proms Youth Ensemble and the National
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Image copyright Getty Images More consumers seem to be shopping online late at night and in the early hours of the morning, say retailers. New data from the John Lewis Partnership Card shows that one in 15 purchases are now made between the hours of midnight and 06:00. The research shows that the number of
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The crackdown on Big Tech is intensifying as flanks of the government across the U.S. try to rein in the industry’s immense power. Nearly every state — California and Alabama being the notable exceptions — joined in a bipartisan investigation of Google, just days after a smaller group announced a probe into Facebook. State attorneys
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Jimmie Johnson made one thing perfectly clear when he walked out of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s infield medical center. He might be out of the playoffs but his season is not over. “I think everybody can see the performance is on its way up,” Johnson said Sunday after a late crash ended his last-ditch hope
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