2019

Pedro Almodóvar, Cinema’s Chief Iconoclast, Has Many Muses. This Time, He’s One Of Them.

On the day after his 70th birthday, Pedro Almodóvar was recovering from jet lag. He had recently traveled from his home in Madrid to New York City, where he’d been summoned to promote his exquisite new movie, “Pain and Glory.” While getting his time zones in order, Almodóvar received two “wonderful gifts” — the best

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Female high flyers start #MeToo-style pay campaign

Image copyright AFP/PA Image caption Dame Moya Greene, Dame Minouche Shafik and Emma Walmsley are backing the campaign A group of 100 of the UK’s most successful businesswomen have launched a campaign to close the gender pay gap. Some of corporate Britain’s biggest names are behind the #MeTooPay initiative including Dame Minouche Shafik, potentially the

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The Online Ad World Is Murky. A Group of Companies Wants to Fix That.

“This is just one effort, but it is trying to address the larger issue of whether the digital advertising business will be more like the open internet, open to many, or will it be dominated by a few walled gardens?” said Randall Rothenberg, chief executive of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is aware of the

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Cancer: Teenage patient promotes body image for #StillMe campaign

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSeren Jenkins says cancer will not stop her looking her best A teenage cancer patient has joined a campaign to help other young people who are struggling with their body image during treatment. Seren Jenkins, 19, from Blackwood in Caerphilly, is in remission after treatment for Hodgkin

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Beyonce’s father Mathew Knowles reveals breast cancer diagnosis

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mathew Knowles with daughter Beyonce in 2007 Mathew Knowles, the father of pop singers Beyonce and Solange Knowles, has revealed he has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 67-year-old has spoken about his condition in an interview with Good Morning America, which will air on US TV network ABC

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Aberdeen Standard Investments chairman Martin Gilbert steps down

Image caption Mr Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in the 1980s Martin Gilbert is to leave Standard Life Aberdeen after nearly four decades with the business. The vice chairman of the group and chairman of Aberdeen’s investment arm said he would step down in September next year. Mr Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in the

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