The Latest on a shooting that injured former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz (all times local): 12:05 a.m. Authorities say former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle and shot him in the back at nearly point-blank range in his native Dominican Republic. Dominican National […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionClare Hutton almost died from drinking too much alcohol; her husband was told she would have had 10 days left to live The alcohol industry has not updated health information labelling three years after health experts issued new guidelines, the BBC has found. In 2016, the UK’s
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK and South Korea have signed an in principle free trade agreement (FTA) that seeks to maintain existing trade arrangements post-Brexit. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox signed the deal with his South Korean counterpart Yoo Myung-hee in Seoul. The preliminary agreement marks the first post-Brexit trade deal the UK has
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Microsoft delighted Xbox gamers at its E3 press event with an unexpected appearance from movie actor Keanu Reeves. The star of John Wick and the Matrix trilogies was at the Los Angeles event to reveal he is starring in one of the most highly anticipated video games. And there was plenty of other action at
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Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz was shot in the Dominican Republic, his father told ESPN on Sunday night. David Ortiz was shot and wounded at a Santo Doningo amusement center, his father Leo Ortiz told ESPN Digital. https://t.co/RCYh7FGWKL — Michael Eaves (@michaeleaves) June 10, 2019 Per the report, Ortiz was shot in a
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Image copyright Getty Images Tweaking sleeping habits can shift people’s body clocks and improve their wellbeing, say scientists in the UK and Australia. They focused on “night owls”, whose bodies’ drive them to stay up late into the night. Techniques used included consistent bedtimes, avoiding caffeine and getting plenty of morning sunshine. The researchers say
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Kyle Hendricks tossed one-run ball over seven innings to continue his dominance over St. Louis, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 5-1 win over the Cardinals on Sunday night. Carlos González hit his first homer with the Cubs and Kyle Schwarber went 2 for 3 with two RBIs as Chicago completed a three-game sweep of
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Ms. Jones attended a diverse, low-income school outside Baltimore, after she and her mother fled domestic violence. Students there were seen as “those kids,” for whom higher education seemed out of reach. In her junior year, against the advice of her administrators, the high-achieving student chose to cut her class schedule in half to join
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Ahead of a Parliamentary debate about access to a cystic fibrosis drug, the family of four-year-old Harrier Corr recorded a video diary to show the impact of living with the condition. More than 10,000 people in the UK have the debilitating genetic lung condition and for about half of them, Orkambi could make a big
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A second horse in two days and 29th overall has died at Santa Anita, where management has chosen to continue racing for the rest of the current meet. Truffalino collapsed in the final stages of the third race on turf Sunday. A track spokesman says the 3-year-old filly died of a heart attack. She was
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