The U.N. weather agency says that the current decade is likely to set a new 10-year temperature record, adding further evidence that the world is getting hotter December 3, 2019, 9:26 AM 1 min read The U.N. weather agency says that the current decade is likely to set a new 10-year temperature record, adding further […]
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Brandon McManus looked up and saw the bright orange streamers atop the goal posts hugging the yellow uprights in the north end zone. Perfect, he thought. No wind. Thirty degrees. One second before halftime. This was the moment he’d waited for, a shot at history. As he mapped out his steps for the 65-yard field
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KYIV, Ukraine — As deputy foreign minister, it was Olena Zerkal’s job to read incoming diplomatic cables from embassies around the world. One from Washington caught her eye back in July, she recalled: It said the Trump administration had frozen military aid for Ukraine. “We had this information,” Ms. Zerkal said in an interview. “It
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mental As Anything were inducted into the Australian recording industry’s Hall of Fame in 2009 (L-R: Reg Mombassa, Greedy Smith, Peter O’Doherty and Martin Plaza) Mental As Anything founding member and songwriter Andrew “Greedy” Smith has died after suffering a heart attack in his car. He was aged 63.
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Image copyright Getty Images TSB has pushed back its target for about half of its senior jobs to be held by women by up to five years. The bank had originally pledged to meet the target by next year, but it now says this will happen before 2025. In fact, TSB has moved further from
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TUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in the Xinjiang region on China’s western frontier, the authorities are testing the rules of science. With a million or more ethnic Uighurs and others from predominantly Muslim minority groups swept up in detentions across Xinjiang, officials in Tumxuk have gathered blood samples from hundreds of Uighurs —
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Steve Kerr is teaching. And learning. That is his silver lining from this season. After five consecutive years of being No. 1 in the Western Conference — and ending up as NBA champions in three of those seasons — the Warriors are at the bottom of the league. Everyone knows why: Kevin Durant left, Stephen
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BOISE, Idaho — During a recent mayoral debate at a Boise homeless shelter, after disposing of icebreakers like the candidates’ favorite Metallica album, the moderator turned to something more contentious: a decade-old lawsuit, now a step away from the Supreme Court. The case, Boise v. Martin, is examining whether it’s a crime for someone to
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Italian bank UniCredit plans to reduce 8,000 jobs under a three-year plan that aims to increase shareholder value December 3, 2019, 8:14 AM 1 min read Italian bank UniCredit plans to reduce 8,000 jobs under a three-year plan that aims to increase shareholder value. The bank, Italy’s largest by assets, said Tuesday that the bank’s
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NASA says it has found the debris from India’s moon lander, which crashed on the lunar surface in September December 3, 2019, 7:56 AM 1 min read NASA says it has found the debris from India’s moon lander, which crashed on the lunar surface in September. The U.S. space agency has released a photo showing
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