Image copyright AFP The US and China have agreed to roll back tariffs as part of any new trade deal, the two sides have said. The statements come amid rising hopes that the two countries will sign a pact that declares an end to a trade fight that has disrupted the global economy. Officials have […]
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Xerox became synonymous with photocopying and printing. HP’s business today is built, in large part, around its printers. Now Xerox wants to combine the two companies. On Wednesday night, HP announced that the previous day it had received a takeover offer from the printing company Xerox, after conversations “from time to time about a potential
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Middle-distance runner Mary Cain, who said she was “the fastest girl in America” when she entered Nike’s now-defunct Oregon Project, described how the training program forced her to lose so much weight that she stopped menstruating and broke five bones. Cain, a track star who signed with the Nike program headed by famed coach Alberto
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Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC that, since he’s been Labour leader, his party had confronted anti-Semitism and taken action. He said members had been suspended or expelled and an education programme had been set up. He was speaking after former Labour MP Ian Austin told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that Mr Corbyn was
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Over the course of a lifetime, many people accumulate assets that their loved ones might not know about, including banks accounts, retirement funds, insurance claims and Treasury bonds. No government agency tracks the value of all unclaimed assets throughout the country, but independent estimates say the number might run as high as $80 billion. Here
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Image caption Yusuf wrote for The Guardian and The Times before joining the BBC The BBC’s Hanna Yusuf has been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award, a month after she died aged 27. Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into Costa Coffee working conditions, is in contention for the new journalist of the year
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Image copyright Getty Images Bill Gates has become the latest billionaire to express concern for presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s plan for a new tax on the super-rich. At a conference, the philanthropist and Microsoft founder said it would stifle business innovation in America. Ms Warren, a Democratic front-runner in the 2020 presidential race, has offered
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Saudi Arabia, frustrated by growing criticism of its leaders and policies on social media, recruited two Twitter employees to spy on thousands of accounts that included prominent opponents, U.S. prosecutors have alleged. A complaint unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi government officials to recruit employees at
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Taylor Swift will perform at Centennial Olympic Park during the men’s Final Four weekend. The 10-time Grammy Award-winning singer will headline the Capital One JamFest on April 5, the finale of the three-day March Madness Music Festival. The Final Four is set for nearby Mercedes-Benz Stadium on April 4 and 6. In August, Swift released
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Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday invited the billionaire Bill Gates to meet so she could allay his worries about her plans to raise taxes on the wealthy and explain “exactly how much” he would pay. Speaking with the columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Conference on Wednesday, Mr. Gates, the Microsoft
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