With the never-stopping news cycle, it’s easy to miss great images that fly under the radar. We’ve got you covered. We’re highlighting exceptional photos from around the world for the week of Sept. 14 to 20. Check them out below. ABOVE: Tourists in hot air balloons fly at sunrise in the Masai Mara game reserve […]
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Image copyright Getty Images There has been a huge rise in catalytic converters being stolen from cars in 2019, police in London say. For the first six months of 2019, the number of thefts of catalytic converters jumped to 2,894, compared to 1,674 thefts for all of 2018. In a car’s exhaust system, catalytic converters
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SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online room-rental start-up’s founders. On behalf of more than a dozen employees, they pleaded to be able to sell their Airbnb stock options. Because Airbnb is privately held, its shares cannot be easily traded or cashed in. So the employees also asked
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Don Mattingly says he’s glad to be returning next year as the Miami Marlins manager to provide stability for a struggling franchise, because as a player he experienced the other extreme. Mattingly played for the New York Yankees from 1982 to 1995, when they made 12 managerial changes. “I played for Billy Martin three different
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Conservative former MEP, Sajjad Karim, says he has experienced Islamophobia from senior members of the party, including a current minister. A number of Conservative Party members have been suspended for posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online. The BBC highlighted over 20 new cases to the party, who said all those found to be members who
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The Federal Reserve will keep pumping cash into a vital but obscure corner of U.S. financial markets in coming weeks. The New York Federal Reserve Bank, which handles the central bank’s interactions with financial markets, said Friday that it will offer daily repurchase, or “repo,” operations of at least $75 billion through Oct. 10. The
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Walmart is getting out of the vaping business. Interested in Vaping? Add Vaping as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Vaping news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The nation’s largest retailer said Friday that it will stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and Sam’s Clubs when it sells
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In a head-scratching moment that many publications described as a “coming out,” musician and producer Mark Ronson told “Good Morning Britain” this week that he identifies as “sapiosexual.” According to Psychology Today, a sapiosexual person is one who “finds intelligence and the human mind to be the most sexually attractive feature for a potential sexual relationship.”
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Image copyright Nigel Howard/Andrew Davies Image caption Nigel Howard (L) and Andrew Davies (R) invested thousands of pounds in Sirius Minerals’ shares For Nigel Howard, the chance to invest in the biggest mine to be built in the UK for a generation was too good an opportunity to miss. The £4bn project – to dig
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A wave of climate change protests swept the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can’t wait for action. Marches, rallies and demonstrations were held from Canberra to Kabul and Cape Town to New York and German police reported that
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