Nick Kyrgios of Australia paid tribute to Kobe Bryant in his fourth-round match at the Australian Open on Monday by wearing a Lakers No. 8 Bryant jersey before he was to play Rafael Nadal of Spain. WILLIAM WEST via Getty Images In addition to mourning the NBA great, who died with his daughter and seven others […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s financial regulator has asked banks to explain how they have decided their new overdraft rates. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said most High Street banks had set “very similar prices”, after it demanded changes to the system. Several big brands including Santander, Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC are set
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It takes a village to preserve a village — especially one like Telluride, Colo., where Butch Cassidy robbed his first bank in 1889 and where the streets, at 8,750 feet elevation, are still dotted with storybook Gold Rush cabins. “These were little mining towns that when they were built, probably weren’t meant to last,” said
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No. 18 Iowa faces a pair of tests against ranked Big Ten teams to highlight the AP Top 25 schedule this week By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer January 28, 2020, 8:52 AM 4 min read RALEIGH, N.C. — Iowa has a big week ahead in the Big Ten race. The No. 18 Hawkeyes have
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Closing out a long day, Alan Dershowitz, perhaps the Trump team’s best-known lawyer, said House managers had resorted to “politically loaded and promiscuously deployed” charges to cast President Trump’s conduct as impeachable. He insisted that the House managers tried to substitute “psychoanalysis” for concrete evidence against the president, deciding that Mr. Trump was “only interested
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption IBS can cause abdominal pain among other issues A medical trial is being held to see if a drug developed as an anti-depressant could become a common treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Amitriptyline has sometimes been prescribed to people with IBS when other treatments have been ineffective. But
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Image copyright IVW/Blue Hippo Media Image caption Thom Yorke pickled in a jar at the bar of The New Adelphi Club in Hull, where a young Radiohead played Oxfordshire rock gods Radiohead return to their humble beginnings for Independent Venue Week. A few years back, Thom Yorke’s band were voted as Glastonbury’s greatest headliners of
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Image copyright Airbus Airbus says it has agreed a settlement with French, British and US authorities following lengthy investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption. In a statement, the European planemaker said the deal was subject to approval by courts in the three countries. The allegations have centred on the use of middlemen in plane
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Roger Federer has saved seven match points before fending off 100th-ranked Tennys Sandgren in five sets to reach the Australian Open semifinals for the 15th time January 28, 2020, 7:50 AM 4 min read MELBOURNE, Australia — The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 6:50 p.m. Roger Federer has saved seven match points
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WASHINGTON — Representative Doug Collins, one of the faces of President Trump’s impeachment defense, plans to challenge Senator Kelly Loeffler in this fall’s special election for one of Georgia’s Senate seats, people familiar with his intentions said on Monday. Mr. Collins’s long-expected decision sets the stage for a brutal Republican-on-Republican fight that will put a
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