Image caption Elton John says he won’t stop making music once his farewell tour ends next year He may have started out singing cover versions on cheap compilation albums, but Elton John went on to become the fifth highest-selling recording artist of all time. He was the first musician to enter the US album charts […]
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Esther Duflo and her husband and fellow prize-winner Abhijit Banerjee Economics Nobel prize winner Esther Duflo says she wants to use the award “as a megaphone” in her fight to ease poverty and improve children’s education. Prof Duflo, only the second woman to win the economics award, told the BBC
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Instead of dwelling on the St. Louis Cardinals’ troubles at the plate after two losses in the NL Championship Series, manager Mike Shildt tried to accentuate the positives. “We’ve pitched really, really well,” he said. “We’ve played really good defense. We’ve run the bases when we’re getting the opportunities really well.” Not anymore. And it
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WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday. Mr. Bolton got into a sharp exchange on
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Comedian Kathy Griffin, who lost friends and nearly her career for posing with a fake decapitated head of President Donald Trump, lashed out against a fabricated video shown at a Trump resort rally that depicts the president shooting and stabbing members of the media and political foes. Griffin is included in the carnage. Toward the end
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LeBron James believes Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey “was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation” regarding the potential consequences of his actions when he tweeted in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests. In his first public comments since the Los Angeles Lakers returned home from a strange weeklong tour of China
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As the 2020 Democratic candidates descend Tuesday on Westerville, Ohio, a northern suburb of Columbus, for the fourth presidential debate, here are 12 fast facts about politics and the economy in the Buckeye State that could help shape the upcoming election. Ohio is a historically accurate presidential predictor The state is typically a reliable weather
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With the strike by factory workers against General Motors in its 29th day, there are signs that negotiators may be moving toward an agreement. After both sides exchanged barbs late last week, bargainers met late into the night during the weekend, and they’ve returned in the morning, talking with few interruptions. All of those are
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Image caption Pam Foley took part in the trial after a head injury in a road accident A cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year worldwide if it was routinely given to people brought into hospital with head injuries, UK doctors say. Tranexamic acid helps stop bleeding in
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Image caption Dafne Keen plays the central character Lyra Ahead of the eight-part dramatisation of the first of Philip Pullman’s best-selling His Dark Materials novels, the BBC’s Sian Lloyd describes her sneak-preview behind-the-scenes set visit earlier this year. Huddled around braziers filled with warm coals or sitting with blankets wrapped over shoulders, close to a
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