Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and current Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt are the final two in the battle to become the next prime minister. They will go through to a ballot of the wider membership of the Conservative Party, but who are the members who will have the deciding vote? James Clayton reports for Newsnight. […]
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Image copyright Getty Images / AFP Image caption The estates of Tom Petty, Tupac Shakur, and Hole star Courtney Love are behind the legal action Several prominent musicians are suing the world’s largest record label, Universal Music, after learning their music may have been lost in a fire. The case, which seeks damages in excess
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Image copyright AFP Contributor Lloyds Banking Group has refused to reveal how much money is in the Jersey accounts which it has frozen amid heightened fears about financial crime. It would not say how many of the 8,000 accounts were held by UK citizens. Lloyds said the accounts were suspended because customers failed to respond
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Polo is widely seen as a men-only-game in northern Nigeria, but one woman is trying to change the story. Aisha Ahmad Suleiman, a polo player from Kaduna State, says being a Muslim woman, she faced many challenges when she first started to play the game. In this BBC Africa One Minute Story, Aisha says she
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New York Mets officials are in damage control mode after team manager Mickey Callaway cursed out a reporter, who was then threatened by pitcher Jason Vargas on Sunday. The reporter’s offense? “Mickey came out of his office, dressed, and I thought he was leaving for the day, so I said, ’See you tomorrow, Mickey,’” Tim Healey,
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THE LAND OF FLICKERING LIGHTS Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics By Michael Bennet Michael Bennet is disappointed, and he’s running for president. In “The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics,” the Democratic senator from Colorado has not written a typical, triumphal campaign memoir. Instead, the book
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionKylie Minogue sings with twins Lauren and Sophie backstage at Blenheim Palace Kylie Minogue surprised a pair of eight-year-old twins by singing their late mother’s favourite song with them. A video of Lauren and Sophie Cripps singing Kylie’s hit Dancing to their dying mother Alex went viral
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Image copyright Getty Images The Information Commissioner (ICO) has fined mobile network EE £100,000 for sending text messages to customers without their consent. The ICO says more than 2.5 million messages were sent in 2018. The purpose of the texts was to encourage EE customers to use the firm’s app and also to upgrade their
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A passenger train derailed on a bridge in north-east Bangladesh on Sunday evening, killing at least five people and injuring more than 100. Six carriages of the passenger train derailed on a bridge at Baramchal in Moulvibazar, around 140 miles from the Capital, Dhaka. All train services between Sylhet and other districts were suspended after
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In the middle of the night before the most important round of golf in Hannah Green’s life, a storm rolled through that produced a crack of thunder loud enough to shake the house she was staying at with a handful of fellow Australians. Green didn’t stir, as housemate Karrie Webb was glad to find out
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