Rafael Nadal beat Stan Wawrinka for the 19th time in 22 meetings, winning 6-4, 6-4 Thursday to reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals. The two players share 22 Grand Slams, but Nadal has 19 of them and once again established a stranglehold on his Swiss opponent. Wawrinka’s blistering one-handed backhand was as erratic as it was […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The starting gun has been fired, the election campaign is under way and the future of the NHS has dominated the opening lap of the contest. If the early exchanges are anything to go by, health will feature prominently in the campaign. Labour has for some time argued that the NHS
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Image copyright Getty/ Sid Gentle Films From the escapades of an intern-turned-spy in Turkey’s capital to the tale of a priest in 15th Century Somerset, there might not be an obvious connection between the novels shortlisted for this year’s Staunch Book Prize. But they have one thing in common: none of them involve physical or
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Image caption Rooibos only grows in the Suid Bokkeveld region of South Africa The industry behind the herbal tea rooibos has agreed to pay a percentage of the money that is made to the indigenous people who used the plant before production was industrialised. South Africa’s KhoiSan people will now receive 1.5% of the value
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Dr. Arvind Kumar, a chest surgeon in the city, said that 90 percent of his lung cancer patients three decades ago were smokers. Today, he said, the ratio was one to one, with at least 10 percent of his clients only in their 30s. “Fifty percent of the patients I operate on throughout the year
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Matthew Tkachuk didn’t think a comeback win was possible after Calgary’s terrible start. Then, he scored a pair of improbable goals for a come-from-behind win. Tkachuk scored the tying goal with 40 seconds left in regulation and the winning goal with 1.4 seconds left in overtime on a between-the-legs shot as the Flames’ beat the
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Nigel Farage has urged Boris Johnson to drop his EU deal and called on him to build a “Leave alliance.” Launching the Brexit Party’s campaign, Mr Farage said should the Conservatives reject his offer of a “non-aggression pact”, his party will stand in every British seat. The Brexit Party became earlier this year the largest
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U.S. employers added a solid 128,000 jobs in October, a figure that was held down by a now-settled strike against General Motors that caused tens of thousands of workers to be temporarily counted as unemployed. Interested in Jobs Report? Add Jobs Report as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Jobs Report
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While you undoubtedly associate apple cider with fall, it’s highly possible you haven’t had the best cider drink that autumn offers: the cider slushie. Slushies, which are essentially apple cider frozen in a machine, can be found from spring through fall at apple orchards across the country, and sometimes they make a fall appearance at
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And on the first day of November, pop star Mariah Carey declared with this funny tweet that it was now OK to get into the holiday spirit: Carey ― now somewhat synonymous with the holiday season due to the ongoing popularity of her 1994 hit “All I Want For Christmas Is You” ― had for
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