The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists — John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino — for their development of lightweight lithium-ion batteries. The trio will share prize money of more than $900,000. Their work led to the creation of […]
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Sixth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3) in the Shanghai Masters second round on Wednesday for the Greek’s first win in six attempts over his Canadian opponent. The pair have met three times this season, with the other three games on the ITF Junior Circuit. “Great. Very nice,” said Tsitsipas, when asked
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A global economic body has proposed overhauling the way multinationals – particularly tech giants – are taxed to make sure they pay their fair share in countries where they do significant business. The plan from the Paris-based the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which advises 134 countries, comes after France and the United States
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Thousands of children across coastal Britain are having multiple teeth extractions in hospitals because of what’s been described as a “double whammy of high needs and poor access to NHS services”. The British Dental Association has told the BBC as many as one in five children in seaside areas have tooth decay by the time
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And how he now wishes he hadn’t. On Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert asked the “Gemini Man” star to name a piece of advice he’d give his younger self. Smith eventually settled on this response: “Hey man, don’t do ‘Wild Wild West.’” “I would say ‘dude, do Neo,’ because I got
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Image copyright Activision Image caption Call of Duty: Mobile was released on 1 October A mobile version of video game Call of Duty has been downloaded more than 100 million times in its first week. However, a boycott aimed at the game’s publisher, Activision Blizzard, has been launched after Blizzard placed a 12-month ban on
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The wives of two England national soccer team stars set Twitter alight Wednesday morning, with accusations flying about fake stories being sold to a British tabloid newspaper. Coleen Rooney — the wife of ex-Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney (who currently plays for MLS side D.C. United) — claimed an account used by Rebekah Vardy —
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The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed overhauling decades-old Medicare rules originally meant to deter fraud and abuse but now seen as a roadblock to coordinating better care for patients. The rules under revision were intended to counter self-dealing and financial kickbacks among service providers such as hospitals, clinics and doctors. Those regulations are now seen
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Image copyright Getty Images Coleen Rooney has claimed that someone using Rebekah Vardy’s Instagram account has leaked stories about her to a tabloid newspaper. The wife of Wayne Rooney says she spent five months working out who was giving out information from her personal Instagram account. She claims she worked out it was Rebekah’s account
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LONDON — Hays Travel, an independent British travel agent, said on Wednesday that it had bought all 555 stores of Thomas Cook, one of the world’s oldest tour companies, which collapsed last month. More than 25 percent of all former Thomas Cook employees who worked in retail have been hired as a result of the
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