Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever with Vietnam culling 2.5 million pigs and China reporting more than a million dead in an unprecedentedly huge epidemic some governments fear has gone out of control. Smaller outbreaks have been reported in Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, Cambodia and […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“We have schools in Africa!” – Elijah Lawal Author Elijah Lawal wants readers to think about race and “call out stereotypes”. “I like to use the metaphor of talking about race as going to the dentist – it’s unpleasant, but you have to go, otherwise, things will
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Slack Technologies, a messaging service used by companies across the world, has been valued at around 16 billion dollars. It’s one of several high-profile tech companies, including Uber and Lyft, going public this year. But plenty of companies which are valued at billions are yet to make a profit. The BBC’s Consumer Correspondent Colletta Smith
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June is Pride month in New York City, a time when it feels like nearly everyone in the five boroughs is a member of the family or a trusted ally. That sense of community will be surpassed this year as New York celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, the night in 1969 when
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Rui Hachimura used to adore a manga and anime series called “Slam Dunk,” which followed a high school basketball team’s trials and tribulations and helped bring the sport into the Japanese consciousness. Though Hachimura was born in Toyama Prefecture two years after the series ended in 1996, he was still profoundly influenced by its cultural
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. — John Palmer, a former university professor, has always had a cause. For decades he urged Minnesota officials to face the dangers of drunken driving and embrace seatbelts. Now he has a new goal: curbing the resettlement of Somali refugees in St. Cloud, after a few thousand moved into this small city
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The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in the Senate by a 51-to-1 vote, while the House endorsed it unanimously. It was two pages long, did not bother defining the word “monopoly” and was used in its first decade mostly to go after labor. Some historians think the conservative Congress that passed it was merely being
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The song was originally recorded for the West End musical Time A previously unheard Freddie Mercury track has premiered on BBC Radio 2, after a decade-long search for a lost vocal performance. Time Waits For No One was originally part of the soundtrack to the 1986 West End musical
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Image copyright Disney Image caption Disney says Buzz “is the best selling toy of all time” in its UK stores When Buzz, Woody and Jessie return to our screens on Friday with the release of Toy Story 4, it’s not just cinemas that will be hoping for queues at their doors. Retailers also hope the
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Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a new poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Thursday, one month before the
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