A hospital nurse doing a 220-mile challenge to swim the length of the River Severn says it is hard but worth it. Melissa Compton, a 39-year-old intensive care worker at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, has set herself a three-week target to complete the feat. On Monday, she spent six hours in the water, swimming from Montford […]
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Image copyright Skin Inc Image caption Sabrina Tan gave up a career in the tech sector to become a skincare entrepreneur The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Sabrina Tan, founder and chief executive of skincare brand Skin Inc. For Sabrina Tan, leaving
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The Arizona Diamondbacks hit three straight home runs to open the game and finished with a team-record eight in a 13-8 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a homer-happy game on Monday night. Scott Kingery hit two of Philadelphia’s five home runs for the combined MLB record of 13 homers in one game. Jarrod Dyson,
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Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. [Get On Politics delivered to your inbox.] I spent this past weekend in Iowa, attending a gathering put on by the state Democratic Party that basically amounted to a dorky political Coachella — less drugs, more clothes
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A move to an “opt-out” system for organ donation in Scotland is to be voted on by MSPs later. At present, people must “opt in” by registering to donate their organs for transplants after they die. Under the new system it will be assumed people were in favour of donation unless they have stated otherwise.
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“He abused his power. I was young, I loved being able to go to shows and he used that because he knew that I would be easily led.” Rachel says that in 2011, when she was 18, a music industry figure raped her. She says he’s still working in the industry today on the team
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An independent U.N. panel called Monday for much greater cooperation to bring digital technology to roughly half the world’s people, and a senior Google executive said mobile phones with internet access are being created to sell for about $20 that can help make this possible. Google Vice President Vinton Cerf said at a news conference
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — David Ortiz was back in Boston on Monday night for medical care, a day after authorities said the former Red Sox slugger affectionately known as Big Papi was ambushed by a gunman at a bar in his native Dominican Republic. A plane carrying the 43-year-old retired athlete landed after
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But Mr. Pompeo did not say how Washington might react if Iran’s inventory of nuclear material increased to the point that Iran got within striking distance of building a bomb. Mr. Rouhani, meanwhile, is gradually raising the temperature, testing whether he can peel European governments away from the United States in the conflict over the
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U.S. employers hired the most people on record in April, while the number of open jobs was largely unchanged, evidence that the job market remains solid. The Labor Department said Monday that businesses filled 5.9 million jobs that month, 4.2% more than in March and the most since records began in December 2000. Some of
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