Image caption Michael (Peter Mullen) and Cathy (Lesley Manville) are still keeping us guessing as to how their relationship will turn out You might not expect a sitcom about a grieving widow’s love life to be the brainchild of a man under 40 but BBC Two’s Mum isn’t your usual comedy drama. As the third […]
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Trade negotiators from China are in Washington to hammer out a deal between the world’s two largest economies. Both sides are keen to resolve the trade dispute as their economies are coming under increasing pressure. BBC Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani explains how we got here, and whether a trade deal will end the rivalry.
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Under Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Victory Day has grown into a major public celebration – and today, once again, tanks will roll across Red Square. The renewed stress on the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany has recast Joseph Stalin as a great war leader, glossing over his crimes and repression. The latest polls show that even
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Straining under the weight of the millions of tourists who visit every year, the Netherlands has decided to stop promoting its most famous attractions in favor of trying to encourage travelers to go to the country’s lesser-known destinations. In some ways, the Netherlands is a victim of its own success: Government campaigns to attract visitors
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A gateway to illegal marketplaces on the darknet has been shut down, the FBI announced Wednesday, and two of its alleged operators have been arrested and accused of making millions of dollars in kickbacks for their services. A grand jury in Pittsburgh returned indictments against the two Israelis on charges of money laundering conspiracy. They’re
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Oakland right-hander Mike Fiers replied to countless congratulatory texts and phone calls following his second career no-hitter, and then crawled into bed around 5 a.m. He saved one special call for later. No one talks to Bruce Fiers until after he has watched his son’s games the following morning. No spoiler alerts allowed. And Mike
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WASHINGTON — Iran’s president declared on Wednesday that he would begin to walk away from the restrictions of a 2015 nuclear deal, and the Trump administration responded with a new round of sanctions against Tehran, reviving a crisis that had been contained for the past four years. The escalation of threats caught the United States’
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A modest rally faded in the last few minutes of trading on Wall Street, leaving stocks slightly lower Wednesday ahead of the latest round of trade talks between the U.S. and China. The late-afternoon reversal added to the market’s losses following a steep sell-off a day earlier as investors worry that the costly trade dispute
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Attorneys general from 33 states on Wednesday urged Congress to approve a proposal intended to fully open the doors of the U.S. banking system to the legal marijuana industry. Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legally available in some form. But most banks don’t want anything to do with money from the cannabis
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was appointed musical director of the CBSO when she was just 29 In the booklet for Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s new CD, she is credited not just as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s conductor (which she is) but as a soprano. It’s not a huge surprise – in
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