May 2019

Boeing 737 Max could be grounded for months, says airline body

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Boeing’s Dennis Muilenburg says steady progress is being made to get the 737 Max back into the skies Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft is unlikely to re-enter service before August, according to the head of the airline industry’s trade body, IATA. Director General Alexandre de Juniac said “we do not expect

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French Rock Star’s Instagram Defeats His Widow in Inheritance Battle

LONDON — Johnny Hallyday, known as the French Elvis, built his six-decade show business career on old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll, but he also kept up with the times technologically. From 2012, his Instagram account shared a canny mixture of the personal and the professional, promoting his tours, his albums and his image as one of

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Defending champ Jutanugarn learns from last US Women’s Open

Ariya Jutanugarn isn’t concerned about making history with a second straight U.S. Women’s Open. She’s more focused on the lessons learned from last year’s back-nine collapse that nearly kept her from the championship. Jutanugarn held a seven-shot lead through 63 holes at Shoal Creek on what looked like a romp to her second major championship.

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As College Debt Rises, So Does Interest in Teaching Financial Literacy

After languishing for a few years, support for teaching money-management skills to high school students has reignited, financial literacy advocates say. They attribute much of the newfound interest to worries about mushrooming student debt. High school students “are asked to make a consequential decision,” said Annamaria Lusardi, founder and academic director of the Global Financial

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Carbon credit fraud trial collapses as expert witness was no expert

Image copyright Facebook Image caption Andrew Ager should never be permitted to give expert evidence again, the judge in the case said The discrediting of an unqualified “expert” – found to have cut-and-pasted the same evidence for several different cases – had led to the collapse of a multi-million pound fraud trial. Andrew Ager had

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