The first principle of travel is that people are not the same as their governments; indeed, even in the free world, they’re often the victims of those governments. Walking down the streets of Havana on the 28th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, I inevitably drew toward me all those who longed to complain about their […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett Packard Enterprise said Friday that it would buy the supercomputer pioneer Cray, a relatively tiny financial transaction that could loom large in a quickening race between the United States and China at the highest reaches of computing. The big Silicon Valley company will pay about $1.4 billion to absorb a much
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They play in an architectural nightmare of a ballpark. They are treated like pariahs in their own community. They have to get by with one of baseball‘s stingiest payrolls. Yet, somehow, the Tampa Bay Rays make it work. It’s one of the most compelling stories in sports, even if few people take notice. “Whatever you
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The Green lead MEP candidate for the Yorkshire and Humber region, Magid Magid, has told the BBC that the Greens are the “only solid remain party that is anti-austerity” in the elections. He dismissed Change UK as a “bit of a vanity project”. He said elected Greens would work on other issues such as climate
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The hottest pitch in real estate is the opportunity zone, one of 8,700 geographic areas in the United States in need of economic investment. Opportunity zones encompass three enticements that make real estate attractive to professional investors: the promise of change in underserved areas, the chance of an outsize investment return and the opportunity for
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Doctors have used keyhole surgery to correct a baby’s spine while he was still inside the womb. A 20-week scan found Jaxson Sharp from Horsham, West Sussex, had spina bifida. Surgeons used a technique called fetoscopy to operate – the first time an procedure of its kind has been carried out in the UK. Medics
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran previously collaborated on the single Love Yourself Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber have scored a joint number one with their single I Don’t Care. The buoyant pop song amassed 123,825 combined sales, after being downloaded 22,000 times and streamed 13m times, said the Official
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A Cray supercomputer is used by the Met Office for weather forecasting. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Cray Inc, maker of some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Cray Inc’s machines are capable of processing trillions of calculations per second and have been used by the UK’s
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has intervened in an ongoing row over a new church in Yekaterinburg. He said the Russian Orthodox Church “should unite people, not divide them”, and called for the plans to build a church in a park to be put to a poll. His intervention follows four days of protests by thousands
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The world has a newly named country, North Macedonia. And that is good news for regional relations and travelers, who are visiting the southeastern corner of Europe in growing numbers. In February, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” — as the United Nations referred to the Balkan country during its admittance in 1993 — officially
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