Image copyright Getty Images GVC, the company that owns Ladbrokes, says it expects its profits to be bigger than expected despite the government’s clampdown on gambling. The firm still expects to close 900 stores over two years because of the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) being cut to £2. But while the use […]
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If the NBA really wanted to make a statement it should have never issued a statement, much less two. No need to complicate things when two team owners had already genuflected to the irate citizens of China. Or when James Harden took it upon himself to apologize to an entire nation. The simple path for
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Image copyright PA Image caption Nurses will have four weeks to vote from Wednesday The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is to start balloting members on industrial and strike action over staffing and pay in Northern Ireland. Voting papers are being posted to RCN members working in health and social care services, with the ballot
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Image copyright Marvel Comics For an 80-year-old, this one’s still going strong: shooting lasers out of its eyes, adventuring through space, saving the world in a metal suit. But this pensioner is Marvel Comics, which is celebrating its anniversary this week, and much like Captain America – who fought in World War 2 – it
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Image copyright Megvii Image caption The Face++ system turns people’s faces into digital maps that can be cross-referenced with those already stored in a database Goldman Sachs will review its involvement in the planned stock market listing of Chinese artificial intelligence firm Megvii. The US has blacklisted the company, alleging it is “implicated” in the
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced Wednesday, a day after the Physics award was given to a Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists. On Monday, the award for Physiology or Medicine went to two Americans and one British scientist. And on Thursday come two literature laureates, while the coveted Nobel Peace Prize
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In a different time, it was an attractive little two-bedroom home, constructed in the early 1940s out of red brick and owned by one of the greatest players ever to grace the diamond, a towering yet tragic figure who lived the last half of his life and went to his grave as a pariah, shunned
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Shares slipped in Asia on Wednesday as tensions between the U.S. and China flared ahead of talks aimed at resolving the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. An overnight sell-off on Wall Street added to the gloom. Technology companies, banks and health care stocks bore the brunt of the selling after the U.S.
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Max Domi, the son of an NHL player, didn’t get star struck much. Then at age 13, he met Bobby Clarke. “My jaw hit the floor, and I was just in shock,” Domi said. Clarke isn’t just a Hockey Hall of Famer who captained two teams to the Stanley Cup. He’s a Hockey Hall of
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Image copyright Getty Images US drug firm Johnson & Johnson has been told to pay $8bn (£6.6bn) in punitive damages to a man over claims he was not warned that an antipsychotic drug could lead to breast growth. A Philadelphia jury made the award to Nicholas Murray, 26, whose case was one of thousands pending
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