The fourth quarter is the most crucial time of the year for many retailers, who hope to make a significant portion of their revenue and profits during the three months that include the holiday season. A look at some of the factors that are likely to affect shopping in the coming quarter: — Consumers are […]
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Image copyright PA The introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol in Scotland appears to have cut drinking, a study suggests. Since May 2018, the price of alcohol has had to be at least 50p per unit. The study published in the British Medical Journal looked at how much alcohol was bought in shops before and
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Image copyright Robert Martin Image caption The Thunder Girls (L to R): Sandra Marvin, Beverley Callard, Carol Harrison and Coleen Nolan Producers, promoters and publishers turned down Melanie Blake’s story The Thunder Girls for two decades because it’s about four women in their 50s, the writer says. Now the tale of a former girl group
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Image copyright Hira Hanif Image caption Hira Hanif worked all the way through her studies as she launched her legal career As a new generation of students settle into university life, many will be prepared for years of hard work – not just studying, but part-time jobs. And for some, the employment can be as
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In production, in execution and in overall cleverness, Sean McVay’s offense has been fairly ordinary during the first three games of his third season with the Los Angeles Rams. Mere competence qualifies as a surprise for a team that tore up the NFL during the head coach’s first two years with an offensive brilliance that
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s mood went from feisty to self-pitying to deflated on Wednesday as he fended off questions about a July phone call in which he urged the president of Ukraine to work with Attorney General William P. Barr on potential corruption investigations connected to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Democratic
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Kylie Jenner is sending love to Paris, as she remains hospitalized back home in L.A. The Kylie Cosmetics mogul is reportedly being treated for what TMZ described as “severe flu-like symptoms — which included nausea and dizziness,” which means that she’ll miss the launch of the Kylie x Balmain makeup collection at Balmain’s Paris Fashion Week event on
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption China’s exports have fallen, especially to the US, with whom it is locked in a so-called trade war China’s economy has been slowing for the better part of the past decade, but a recent run of poor data has prompted fresh concerns. What is making investors nervous, and how
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A BBC investigation has found children as young as seven are being groomed to sell sex in one of the world’s largest licensed brothels. Sex work is legal for women over the age of 18 in Bangladesh, but some women in Daulatdia, 100km from Dhaka, say they were forced into prostitution when they were children.
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Iver Valencia goes out at dusk each evening during nesting season with a group of lantern-wielding villagers to walk a stretch of Panamanian beach. Their mission: to find nests where olive ridley sea turtles lay their eggs and take them to a hatchery safe from predators. On a recent night, Valencia and the others in
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