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Asian stocks mixed after Wall Street fall on Huawei anxiety

Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after anxiety over U.S. restrictions on sales to Chinese tech giant Huawei pulled Wall Street lower. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Seoul and Sydney advanced, while Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Anxiety over U.S.-Chinese trade tension was reignited by Washington’s decision to require export licenses for technology sales to Huawei Technologies Ltd. […]

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California eyes health care for immigrants in US illegally

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Lilian Serrano’s mother-in-law had lots of stomach problems, but she always blamed food. Doctors at a San Diego-area clinic suspected Genoveva Angeles might have cancer, but they could not say for sure because they did not have the equipment to test for it and Angeles, who had been in the country illegally for 20 years,

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Aretha Franklin: Three wills discovered

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Reuters Three handwritten wills have been found at the home of Aretha Franklin, months after the “Queen of Soul’s” death. Franklin died from pancreatic cancer in August and family members said at the time that she had left no will. But three documents were found earlier this month. Two from 2010 were recovered

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Tesco Bank to pull out of mortgage market

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Tesco Bank is stopping new mortgage lending and is looking for ways to sell its existing mortgage portfolio. The bank, which started offering mortgages in 2012, has more than 23,000 mortgage customers, who have total lending balances of £3.7bn. Tesco Bank chief Gerry Mallon said: “In recent years, challenging market conditions

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Saving lives from Swansea to Bangladesh

World / En Sound Media

Swansea-based RNLI lifeguard Darren Williams is on a mission to prevent children drowning in Bangladesh. It has one of the highest drowning rates in the world and Mr Williams works with the charity’s international programme trying to tackle the problem. Solutions can often be swimming or safety lessons, but also include less obvious ideas –

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More Than Just Children’s Books

Travel / En Sound Media

BERLIN — On a recent Saturday afternoon, a hush fell in the bright, airy “reading-aloud” room at Krumulus, a small children’s bookstore in Berlin, as Sven Wallrodt, one of the store’s employees, stood up to speak. Brandishing a newly published illustrated children’s book about the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press,

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Playing Tetris by committee with multiple players

Technology / En Sound Media

Octopad is an eight player controller linked to an old Nintendo Entertainment System. It enables games like Tetris and Super Mario Bros to be played by eight people at once rather than just a single player. Developed by Patrick Lemieux of UC Davis, California, the Octopad single button controllers mean each player can only trigger

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1st of 5 women to testify at ex-NFL player’s rape trial

Sports / En Sound Media

Prosecutors plan to call the first of five women to testify Tuesday at the rape trial of former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr., whose accusers include a 54-year-old who got a ride from him hitchhiking and a 59-year-old who was homeless when they met. Meanwhile defense lawyers argued the sex was consensual and asked jurors

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Nigel Farage: Milkshake thrown at Brexit Party leader

Politics / En Sound Media

New footage has emerged showing the moment Nigel Farage had milkshake thrown at him during a campaign walkabout. The Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle as part of a tour of the country ahead of the European elections. A man was taken away by a police community support officer and

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Middle Class Crashed After 2000 And Hasn’t Recovered. Economists Are Worried.

Finance / En Sound Media

Most states saw growth in the middle class between 2016 and 2017, but the number of households in that group still had not recovered to the levels of 2000. Only Nebraska and the District of Columbia had a middle class bigger than in 2000, according to a Stateline analysis of American Community Survey microdata at

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