Image copyright JENI HAYNES/ NINE NETWORK Image caption Jeni Haynes was allowed to let six of her personalities testify against her father There was only one woman in the witness stand that day but out of her came six people prepared to testify about the extreme abuse she had suffered. “I walked into court, I […]
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Kylie Minogue’s decades-spanning greatest hits set has become the most-watched Glastonbury performance ever. An average audience of 3.2m people tuned in to see her play the festival’s “legend slot”, beating previous highs set by Ed Sheeran and Adele. Viewership peaked at 3.9m during the closing minutes of Kylie’s set, as she played Dancing and Spinning
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Image copyright PA Media Sellers of the Big Issue are now able to accept contactless card payments. The magazine sold by people who are homeless worked with financial tech company iZettle on the initiative after a trial scheme in five cities. Some vendors saw 80% of their sales become cashless and card reader devices are
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PONT-LA-VILLE, Switzerland — On the two-lane road through this lakeside village of 600 residents, in the middle of Canton Fribourg, you can’t miss two sales signs outside a driveway entrance: “Golf Resort La Gruyère, appartements de prestige.” Within five years, developers promise to transform the village’s modest golf course into a $356 million luxury destination:
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Never known as a bastion of offense, the Big Ten is putting up points at a rate unmatched by any conference through the first two weeks of the season. The Big Ten team average is 40.5 points per game, largely because Penn State and Maryland each scored a national season-high 79 in Week 1. Maryland
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WASHINGTON — The Air Force has ordered a review of its procedures used to decide where personnel are put up during overnight layovers, after conceding on Sunday that the decision to place a crew at the luxury resort owned by the Trump family in Scotland this year “might be allowable but not advisable.” The internal
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Global shares were mostly higher Monday as the week started with a mix of economic data for the region and the U.S. France’s CAC 40 fell less than 0.1% in early trading to 5,602.25, while Germany’s DAX gained 0.2% to 12,218.62. Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.4% to 7,311.75. U.S. shares were set to drift higher
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Summer heatwaves led to drought conditions across areas of France and western Europe Record heatwaves in June and July caused the deaths of 1,435 people in France this year, according to the country’s health minister. Speaking on French radio, Agnès Buzyn said half of those who died were aged over
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President Donald Trump paused his feuds with actor Debra Messing, former FBI director James Comey and the National Weather Service on Sunday night to attack singer John Legend and model/cookbook author Chrissy Teigen. Legend appeared on MSNBC to talk about criminal justice reform and ending mass incarceration. In response, Trump posted a tweet claiming to support reform and attacked Legend
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionA police officer draws his gun and aims at protesters Hong Kong’s airport building The number of tourists visiting Hong Kong tumbled in August as anti-government protests gripped the city, in a sign of the mounting economic cost of the unrest. In a blog post, Hong Kong
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