Image copyright Getty Images Dyson, the UK-based company best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scrapped a project to build electric cars. The firm, headed by inventor Sir James Dyson, said its engineers had developed a “fantastic electric car” but that it would not hit the roads because it was not “commercially viable”. In an […]
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When Jacqueline Kennedy and her younger sister, Lee Radziwill, began a tour of India and Pakistan in March 1962, the first lady was described in Life magazine as “arguably the most famous woman in the world.” In India, crowds gathered to see Mrs. Kennedy in Jaipur, New Delhi and Fatehpur Sikri. In Pakistan, she was
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BRUSSELS — A 5G supplier from a “hostile” country could be forced by its home government to wreak havoc by causing cyberattacks, a European Union report warned on Wednesday, but the bloc stopped short of naming the Chinese giant Huawei, which the United States blacklisted after the White House labeled it a tool for espionage
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When the European Tour last came to Rome back in 2002, Francesco Molinari was a teenage amateur just pleased to make the cut and golf was a relatively unknown sport in Italy. Fast forward 17 years and Molinari is a major champion , a Ryder Cup hero and the poster boy of this week’s Italian
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration was expected on Thursday to propose new regulations on lead and copper in drinking water, updating a 20-year-old rule that may have contributed to the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich., that began in 2015. The draft plan, which was scheduled to be announced by the Environmental Protection administrator, Andrew
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Imagine discovering that your newborn’s brand new Social Security number has already been used to construct what Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center, calls a “Frankenstein monster of identity.” Parents may discover their newborn’s tarnished Social Security number when they try to use it to file taxes, apply for government
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Bernie Sanders says he’s “getting my endurance back” and “getting stronger every day” after last week’s heart attack, while promising to return to the presidential campaign trail “as soon as possible.” “I am feeling great,” the 78-year-old Vermont senator said in a 7-minute video posted online Thursday. He said that, while lying in a hospital
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The homes on Goldsmith Street in Norwich are a little different. Built by Norwich City Council to Passivhaus standard, they have just won the Riba Stirling Prize for architecture and could set the template for the future of social-housing developments. These fuel-efficient homes, nearly 100 of them, are handed over with large blue ring binders,
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Image copyright MissPap Image caption Queen of the Island Amber Gill There were two big winners of ITV2’s Love Island this year. Amber Gill, the contestant who won the show, and Boohoo, the online fast fashion retailer who signed her. In June, while the Islanders were flirting their way to celebrity in the Mediterranean sun,
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The Latest on the drought in the southern United States (all times local): 9 a.m. Forecasters say a “flash drought” is intensifying across the southern United States. A new report out Thursday shows that severe and extreme drought conditions are spreading into more parts of the South. The U.S. Drought Monitor report also shows that
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