Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Biffa is the second largest recycling company in the UK Waste management giant Biffa has been fined £350,000 for trying to send household rubbish to China as paper fit for recycling. The bales being shipped from Felixstowe port in Suffolk contained nappies, wet wipes and condoms, inspectors found. Biffa […]
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Mr. Ahmed said he traveled often for work and valued sleep on flights. “Looking at how many hours I’ve spent in the last six months alone flying, it’s been 183 hours inside a plane,” he said. Japan Airlines’ seating feature won’t be visible to all travelers. The child icons will not be displayed in a
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BBC Click’s Lara Lewington looks at the week’s best technology stories including; Amazon announced that Alexa will soon be able to bring the voices of Samuel L Jackson and other celebrities into your home The Port of Antwerp has unveiled a hybrid – hydrogen-diesel tugboat to replace the gas guzzling diesel-only ones, usually used to
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Connecticut Sun players toil largely in the shadow of the WNBA’s bigger names. Washington, the Sun’s opponent in the finals that begin Sunday, features one of the biggest stars in league MVP Elena Delle Donne. Many pundits are picking the Mystics to win the title in the best-of-five final. That’s just fine with the Sun,
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“If my information was deemed inaccurate, I understand (though I would be very interested to know why),” he wrote. “If, however, the information was ignored because it did not fit certain preconceptions about Iraq, then a legitimate argument can be made that we went to war under false pretenses.” That suggestion did not sit well
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Peter Rothstein has a job with a social purpose: expanding the clean energy industry in the northeastern United States as a way to mitigate climate change. Soon, he will be able to support that mission when he saves for retirement. In November, the Boston-based Northeast Clean Energy Council, where Mr. Rothstein is president, will revise
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A woman with incurable cervical cancer has called for smear tests to be routinely offered to women under 25. Paige Hart, 25, from Nottingham, said she visited her GP five times before she was diagnosed in November 2018, aged 24, when it was already in an advanced stage. Currently women are not usually offered smear
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Image caption Munchetty has been a presenter on BBC Breakfast for the last 10 years The BBC has said it is not impartial on racism, after a backlash over its decision to uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty. An email from senior management to all staff said: “Racism is not an opinion and
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Shares of Latam Airlines Group are soaring after Delta Air Lines announced it will pay $1.9 billion for a 20% stake in the operator of South American carriers. U.S.-traded shares of Chilean-based Latam rose $2.77, or 31%, to $11.78 in midday trading. Delta will pay $16 a share. Because of obstacles to cross-border mergers, airlines
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Students in Italy symbolically torched a replica of planet Earth on Friday, part of a second wave of worldwide protests demanding swifter action to fight climate change. The demonstrations were sparked by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, with many participants echoing the anger she expressed to world leaders this week at a U.N. summit in New
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