Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWorkers at the troubled bus manufacturer Wrightbus celebrated earlier this month after a deal for its sale was agreed The new owner of bus manufacturer Wrightbus has said recruitment will start in the coming weeks. Bamford Bus Company, owned by English industrialist Jo Bamford, has now formally […]
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NEWPORT, R.I. — They met in Ios, Greece: locking eyes across the town square, both in their 20s then. (She had noticed his distinctive mustache.) Elayna Carausu was playing guitar and singing for a travel company; Riley Whitelum was living on the sailboat he had bought with money saved from working for years on oil
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Verizon is offering new and current customers a free year of Disney+ as the battle for streaming customers heats up. The offer extends to certain new and existing unlimited 4G and 5G customers as well as the vast majority of new home-internet customers. The promotion beginning Nov. 12 will provide access to Disney, Pixar, Marvel,
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Cassius Winston had a long list of accomplishments at Michigan State. He led the Spartans to Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles and into the Final Four. He was the Big Ten player of the year, an Associated Press All-American, one of the nation’s best players. No one would have blamed the gritty guard for
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The top diplomat in Ukraine is answering questions about what he described as a “crazy” quid pro quo. William B. Taylor Jr., the United States ambassador to Ukraine, on Tuesday became the latest Trump administration official to defy an administration blockade of the impeachment inquiry and make his way to Capitol Hill to offer his
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Image copyright Getty Images A US drug company says it has created the first therapy that could slow Alzheimer’s disease, and it is now ready to bring it to market. Currently, there are no drugs that can do this – existing ones only help with symptoms. Biogen says it will soon seek regulatory approval in
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Image copyright Netflix trailer Image caption Worrying times ahead for Queen Elizabeth II The first full trailer for the third series of royal drama The Crown has dropped – with Olivia Colman’s Queen Elizabeth II facing turbulent times. It opens as the monarch marks her Silver Jubilee, against a backdrop of economic and political strife
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Image copyright WeWork Japanese investment giant Softbank is set to take control of WeWork after the office sharing firm’s plans to raise money via stock markets collapsed. WeWork’s board has reportedly accepted an offer in which Softbank will buy billions worth of shares, including $1bn from co-founder Adam Neumann. The rescue deal provides much needed
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You’ve got to work hard to survive in the wild and for birds, that can mean developing a gimmick. Some birds have evolved with beautiful feathers, others have elaborate courtship rituals – and the white bellbird makes a noise louder than an industrial drill. It’s the loudest bird song ever recorded, a study published in
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This approach gives companies more flexibility and may save NASA money. In contrast to Apollo, where the giant Saturn 5 rocket carried all of the pieces needed for a moon landing, NASA this time will employ a more complex choreography for the new missions, named Artemis. (In Greek mythology, Artemis is the twin sister of
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