Image copyright PAcemaker Image caption Wrightbus workers celebrate with champagne on hearing news of the deal A deal has been reached in principle for the sale of Wrightbus. Bidder Jo Bamford said agreement had been reached with “the Wright family for the Wrightbus factory and land”. “We are still to conclude a deal with the […]
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For over a century, the Jungfrau Railway has delivered tourists high into the wild and frozen terrain of Switzerland’s Bernese Alps. In 2018, more than one million people rode the train up to the Jungfraujoch, a railway station — the highest in Europe — that occupies a rocky perch between the Jungfrau and the Mönch,
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Nike says it is closing its Oregon Project track and field program following Alberto Salazar’s four-year ban. Nike says “uninformed innuendo and unsubstantiated assertions has become an unfair burden for current OP athletes. That is exactly counter to the purpose of the team. We have therefore made the decision to wind down the Oregon Project
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WASHINGTON — No one should have been surprised, and yet it seems that everyone was. President Trump made clear long ago that he wanted to get out of the Middle East, but even some of his own supporters evidently assumed that he would not follow through or that someone would stop him. As a result,
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The Latest on Britain’s departure from the European Union (all times local): 11:15 a.m. European Union Council chief Donald Tusk says that he has “received promising signals” from Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible and he has extended a deadline to continue talks with the United Kingdom. Tusk, speaking
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Joe Jonas may have some making up to do with wife Sophie Turner following a funny Instagram exchange between the celebrity couple that left their fans in stitches. “Best. Day. Ever.,” the singer-songwriter on Thursday described an image of himself with brothers Kevin and Nick, at the Coors factory in Golden, Colorado, where they were
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Apple said it had credible information that the hkmap.live app was putting people in danger As if piling up sandbags before a flood, Apple was well prepared to face a backlash over its decision to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters. But the firm’s carefully-worded statement offering
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The prominent author Zukiswa Wanner, born to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother in Zambia, has a complicated relationship with Nairobi, the Kenyan capital and her adopted city of seven years. “In its many layers, Nairobi has the beauty and the frustrations of all African cities I love,” said Ms. Wanner, 43, a
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Time is running out for Thailand’s dwindling population of helmeted hornbills thanks to poaching of the exotic birds for the ivory-like casques atop their big red and yellow beaks. The species, known by the scientific name Rhinoplax vigil, is listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. “Currently, there are fewer
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Andre Burakovsky skated by one Boston defender and collided with another. In between, he had an instant of separation, just enough to get off a shot. Burakovsky scored the go-ahead goal with 7:06 remaining, Boston had two goals disallowed after video reviews, and the unbeaten Colorado Avalanche handed the Bruins their first loss of the
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