The choir that sang at Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding have written a lullaby for their new baby. The Kingdom Choir are a gospel group who performed Stand By Me in front of an estimated global TV audience of 1.9 billion people at the royal wedding in May 2018. They wrote the lullaby for the […]
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Image caption Food for thought: tech entrepreneur Lin Liu believes “winter is coming” for tech firms China’s once scorching tech sector is cooling off. “Winter is coming,” laughs Lin Liu, a 29-year-old Shanghai tech worker. Electric vehicles, industrial robots, and microchip production all slowed recently. Big firms like Alibaba, Tencent, and search engine Baidu have
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How this chaotic miracle comes together is the work of Mr. Coulton, Mr. Sabourin and Greg DiCostanzo, who is the “Storm” of Paul and Storm, and Drew Westphal, the chief operating officer of the partnership. Mr. Sabourin and I met to talk in the ship’s casino, a place we knew would be quiet. In a
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LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded antiterrorism law. The Twitter accounts of German citizens were blocked because of rules enacted last year that prohibit hate speech. And a Dutch court determined Google must remove search results about a doctor punished for poor performance, in compliance with
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Atlanta Braves pitcher Kevin Gausman has been suspended for five games and fined for throwing a 97 mph fastball behind Miami’s Jose Ureña last week. Gausman appealed the penalty imposed Monday by Chief Baseball Office Joe Torre. Gausman can continue to play until there’s a final ruling. Gausman’s first pitch to Ureña in the second
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular freshman Democrat from New York who is trying to use her star power to move the Democratic Party to the left, will headline a rally next week in Washington in favor of the Green New Deal, as she seeks to shore up support for the expansive climate legislation that has
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By threatening to raise taxes on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump is throwing down a challenge to Beijing: agree to sweeping changes in China’s government-dominated economic model — or suffer the consequences. The unexpected ultimatum, delivered via tweets on Sunday and Monday, shook up financial markets that were convinced the world’s two biggest economies were
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The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight cases of serious depression among employees at France‘s main telephone and internet company over three years. A long-awaited trial began Monday in Paris accusing the telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and other charges. The company was called
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Image copyright Curzon Artificial Eye Image caption Natalie Portman plays Celeste in Brady Corbet’s second feature Young music stars can be “crucified” in the media as they burn out from the demands of their career, says the director of a new film about a troubled pop singer. Vox Lux, directed by Brady Corbet, stars Natalie
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Image copyright Getty Images Google says it will investigate examples of adverts leading search results for companies offering to carry out a service for a higher fee than the official channels. For example, a search for the term “driving licence application” in the UK led to a firm charging £49 ($64) for a change of
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