Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Thomas Cook customers are being brought home but future holiday plans are more complicated The collapse of Thomas Cook has understandably left many people searching for answers about the impact on their holiday plans. Here are some of your typical questions, which we have done our best to answer, […]
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Bangkok, Thailand Wasa Khuhaprema, center, prepares dinner for her family, including her parents, with help from her two young sons; the boys cook at least one night a week. This night, they ate an omelet with carrots, stir-fried minced pork and eggplant, and southern Thai sour curry with cauliflower. Family members are expected to clean
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Christian Coleman never intended to take a crash course on the history of his sport. He got one anyway. Among the main lessons the sprinter learned: Anytime track fans see the words “doping” and “American” in the same headline — and it has happened an awful lot over the years — things usually don’t end
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has reacted to the the Supreme Court’s decision that the PM acted unlawfully in proroguing parliament. . She said Boris Johnson had tried to “silence Parliament, tried to silence the voices of the people because he does not want to be held to account”. Britain’s highest court’s ruling is a
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The governor of Massachusetts is declaring a public health emergency and ordering a four-month ban on the sale of vaping products in the state. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s order Tuesday appears to be the first of its kind in the nation. The ban must be approved by a health council that is nearly certain to
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mark Thompson left he BBC for the New York Times in 2012 Ex-BBC director general Mark Thompson has warned that British “cultural sovereignty” is under threat from global digital giants like Netflix. The dominance of US platforms means UK audiences may lose out on “great news, drama, comedy, documentary
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WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is stepping down as CEO as the beleaguered co-working space business seeks to regain its footing after last week’s botched initial public offering, the company said Tuesday. The news was first reported by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which spoke to insiders familiar with the shakeup at the
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Britain’s biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up Tuesday as questions swirled over the pay that Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator’s collapse. As uncertain Thomas Cook customers made their way to airports around the world, Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority said it brought 14,700 people back to the
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She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. “How dare you?” she kept saying to some of the world’s most powerful people. “You are failing us,” she told them. Sometimes, a moment and a person align. For 16-year-old Greta Thunberg — whether you
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Mr. Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, planned a midafternoon statement from Wilmington, Del., in which an aide said he would call on Mr. Trump to comply with requests by Congress to investigate the matter, and say that if the president does not, he should be impeached. Some of his primary rivals
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