Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Michael Stipe: “We didn’t want fame, we didn’t want money, we wanted to be a vital creative band”. REM’s ninth album, Monster, is the most challenging and polarising record the band ever released. When it arrived in 1994, the band were at the peak of their popularity, thanks to […]
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Image copyright Smart Sweets Image caption Tara developed her sweets after she gave up eating sugar The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Tara Bosch, the founder and chief executive of low-sugar sweets business Smart Sweets. Tara Bosch describes herself as a former
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California’s recent power shut-offs, meant to reduce the risk of potentially catastrophic fires, have had an unwelcome side effect. The blackouts have also cut power to many cellphone towers, blocking the main communications source for many in harm’s way. “You don’t appreciate how essential cellphone service is until you lose it,” said Chris Ungson, deputy
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McKinzie, with a new jockey replacing Hall of Famer Mike Smith, is the 3-1 favorite for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic this weekend at troubled Santa Anita. The track is hosting the world championships for a record 10th time Friday and Saturday. A total of 36 horses have died at Santa Anita since December,
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WASHINGTON — A White House national security official who is a decorated Iraq war veteran plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he heard President Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate one of his leading political rivals, a request the aide considered so damaging to American interests that he reported it to
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The “Maleficent” sequel has overtaken “Joker” for the weekend box-office crown in North America. Final figures released Monday showed “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” earned $19.4 million, pulling ahead of “Joker” by a mere $122,000. “Joker” had been the top film on Sunday based on studio estimates after being knocked out of the top spot by
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Image copyright Getty Images A infectious disease that can harm the brain and is spread to people by tick bites has been identified in ticks in the UK for the first time. Public Health England (PHE) says it has confirmed cases of tick-borne encephalitis virus in ticks from two parts of England – Thetford Forest
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“Saturday Night Live” star Michael Che is in hot water once again — and this time it’s for a joke about Caitlyn Jenner that many are calling transphobic. During the “Weekend Update” segment this past Saturday, Che was joking about Kanye West’s newly religious public persona when things took an unexpected turn. “At first I thought Kanye
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Image copyright Getty Images City centres across the UK will be transformed in the coming weeks as wooden stalls are erected and visitors from Europe arrive to bring a continental flavour to our streets. Christmas markets have quickly become a familiar sight in many cities, but the uncertainty around Brexit means they have faced extra
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Shonke village is a 900-year-old settlement on the top of a mountain in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. Residents say they prefer their traditional stone-built homes to Ethiopia’s “shining cities”. About 20 generations have lived in the village, but residents now say half of the village’s estimated households have left in search of farmlands down the hill.
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