Global shares were mixed Friday, after Wall Street indexes posted modest gains, cheered by solid profits and forecasts from U.S. technology companies. But uncertainties such as U.S.-China trade tensions and Britain’s unruly process toward leaving the European Union weighed on investor sentiment. France’s CAC 40 edged up 0.2% to 5,692.86. Germany’s DAX slipped 0.2% to […]
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Image copyright Getty Images / BSIP Image caption GPs spend a long time sitting down, which can affect health, the university says Patients will stand up at their GP surgery appointments as part of a university research trial. Doctors will stand at desks and wear trackers to monitor activity as part of the Loughborough University
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JK Rowling has told young people not to become volunteers in overseas orphanages, because of the risk that they might be unwittingly supporting places that are cruel to children. The Harry Potter author warned that children in orphanages in poorer countries often still had parents – but they had been separated by poverty rather than
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s four main mobile phone companies and the government have set out a £1bn plan to banish so-called “not-spots”, areas of poor network coverage in rural areas. The deal – which includes EE, O2, Three and Vodafone – aims to get 4G coverage to 95% of the UK by 2025.
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Google is paying more attention to the small words in your searches. Want to figure out how to park on a hill with no curb? Google now takes that “no” into account, and shows top results that include parking instructions without curbs. Interested in Google? Add Google as an interest to stay up to date
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Notre Dame and Michigan will meet under the lights shining on their cool helmets and storied programs. The Fighting Irish and Wolverines have been playing against each other since 1887 and yet they will meet for just the 45th time. They haven’t played more because breaks have been sprinkled throughout the history of the series.
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WASHINGTON — A group of conservative activists voiced their support for Mick Mulvaney, the embattled acting White House chief of staff, telling President Trump in a letter that the “D.C. swamp is attacking him” and urging the president to permanently appoint him to the job. The letter was signed by dozens of conservatives, including Ginni
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Kesha has been through hell over the past few years, so she might as well start raising it. The singer has blessed us all with her new single, “Raising Hell,” featuring Big Freedia off her forthcoming fourth studio album, which arrives Jan. 10, 2020. While Kesha may have dropped the money sign from her name
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Women’s charities are concerned by new research that shows a rise in the use of so-called ‘stalkerware’. The surveillance software allows someone complete access to a victim’s phone showing private messages, GPS location and even giving someone the ability to see and hear through cameras and microphones. The technology is openly sold online as ‘parental
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How about running next year’s Tokyo Olympic marathon at 3 a.m. — or 5 a.m.? That may be proposed to Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee, a step to keep the marathon from being moved out of Tokyo’s summer heat to cooler weather 800 kilometers (500 miles) further north in Sapporo. Japanese news agency
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