Two-time French Open champion Maria Sharapova pulled out of the year’s second Grand Slam tournament on Tuesday because of her surgically repaired right shoulder. Sharapova announced her withdrawal on Instagram. “Sometimes the right decisions aren’t always the easiest ones,” she wrote. She said she has returned to practice and is “slowly building the strength back” […]
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A Conservative MP asking a sombre question in the Commons about bereavement care was interrupted by an automated announcement about a test being completed. The Speaker joked that Antoinette Sandbach had “passed the test with flying colours” before she carried on with her question to the prime minister. BBC political coverage in text, video, images
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that the U.S. is making progress on lifting tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico, potentially overcoming a key hurdle toward approval of a trade agreement between the three countries. Addressing another contentious trade issue, Mnuchin said he expects to soon travel to Beijing with U.S.
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A 16-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is taking his GCSEs using just his eyes. Will, who attends Lonsdale School in Stevenage, is unable to talk or write, so will be using a specially-designed computer that reads his eye movement. He will be given 700% more time to allow for the computer to recognise the letters
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Image copyright Barca Nostra If the purpose of art is to elicit a strong reaction then exhibiting a shipwreck at one of the world’s biggest art exhibitions has passed the test. But has it overstepped the boundaries of taste? Critics have hit out at the use of the hull of the ship, in which hundreds
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Image copyright Getty Images US President Donald Trump’s Miami golf resort and Manhattan skyscraper, jewels in the crown of his property empire, are in decline, say US media. The Trump National Doral Miami has reported a steep drop in profit since 2015, according to the Washington Post. Since 2015 net operating income fell by 69%,
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Two window cleaners have been rescued from a metal basket which was swinging out of control near the top of a 50-storey building in Oklahoma. Reports said the crane at the Devon Tower was unstable and the incident took place in high winds. The basket smashed several windows before emergency responders stabilised the crane and
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This was the third time I’d sailed up the Inside Passage in a boat. The third time I’d watched surf explode from the rocky headlands of northern Vancouver Island, the swell rhythmically shifting my view of the horizon. The umpteenth time I’d listened to the weather forecast on the VHF radio while gulls catapulted past
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Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is entirely human-made — perhaps a new form of life, experts said, and a milestone in the field of synthetic biology. Researchers at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday reported that they had rewritten the DNA of the bacteria Escherichia coli, fashioning a synthetic genome four times
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Jimmie Johnson views himself as a patience person. But the seven-time NASCAR Series Cup champion said he’s growing more and more impatient with each passing week as his Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 race team keeps struggling on the race track. “Over my career, I’ve been able to be patient and let things work themselves out,”
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