Image copyright Getty Images Patients with mental health problems, autism and learning disabilities are being let down by a “broken” care system, a report warns. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says it knows of at least 62 adults and children that have been living in segregation in mental health hospitals for long periods of time. […]
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Five years ago Darwin Prakash wasn’t able to read music and had no formal singing training. The baritone started his operatic singing career after a chance meeting with a British music teacher after following friends to an opera masterclass in Delhi, India. Now, having completed his training, he’s about to make his professional debut appearing
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Image copyright Greenpeace Image caption The activists are calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas Climate activists inside five large containers have blocked the entrances to BP’s head office in central London. The Greenpeace protesters used cranes to transport the heavy boxes into place at St James’s Square in the early hours
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Thousands of Manchester City fans partied on the streets as an open-top bus carried their heroes through the city. Pep Guardiola’s City side became the first to complete clean sweep of all three major English trophies with Saturday’s 6-0 thrashing of Watford in the FA Cup final at Wembley. They clinched a second successive Premier
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Shelli Stein, a travel blogger who writes for the website Point Me to the Plane, advises travelers to use their points as soon as they can. “The programs give and take all the time, and alliances come and go,” she said. It’s better to lock in a ticket or hotel room because “you don’t know
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Huawei could quickly lose its grip on the No. 2 ranking in worldwide cellphone sales after Google announced it would comply with U.S. government restrictions meant to punish the Chinese tech powerhouse. The Trump administration’s move, which effectively bars U.S. firms from selling components and software to Huawei, ups the ante in a trade war
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Kyle Larson was among NASCAR’s rising young stars in 2017 with four victories and his second straight playoff appearance. Then came a 20-month winless drought that left him and his Chip Ganassi Racing team searching for answers. Larson believes he found several during a breakthrough weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He became just the second
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WASHINGTON — President Trump is preparing to instruct his former White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, to defy a congressional subpoena and skip a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, denying Democrats testimony from one of the most important eyewitnesses to Mr. Trump’s attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation, a person briefed on the matter said
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Ford revealed details of its long-awaited restructuring plan Monday as it prepared for a future of electric and autonomous vehicles by parting ways with 7,000 white-collar workers worldwide, about 10 percent of its global salaried workforce. The major revamp, which had been under way since last year, will save about $600 million per year by
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The World Health Organization spent nearly $192 million on travel expenses last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. The abuses could spook potential donors and partners as the
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