Image copyright Getty Images Average weekly wages in the UK have reached their highest levels since before the financial crisis. Weekly pay reached £512 in the three months to December, which – adjusting for inflation – is the highest since March 2008. Excluding bonuses, earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the three-month […]
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Julian Robertson’s three new homes on New Zealand’s North Island are a matter of practicality. The co-founder, chairman and chief executive of the investment firm Tiger Management needs the residences for his growing family, which now includes his three sons, their wives and his nine grandchildren. When Mr. Robertson first built a vacation house on
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The oddsmakers in Las Vegas usually know what they’re talking about. But even they get things wrong from time to time, and this season in the NBA there have been a few notable misses from all those preseason prognostications — specifically, ones made in relation to the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder. The Grizzlies
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Image copyright Instagram “In a world where you can be anything, be kind,” Caroline Flack wrote on Instagram in December. There is no simple explanation for why someone chooses to take their own life and it is rarely due to one particular factor. But after the 40-year-old TV presenter was found on Saturday, those words
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The NCAA moved back the 3-point line this season to create more room in the lane and cut down on the barrage of 3s in college basketball. Shooting percentages are down, historically low. Attempts also have dropped, slightly. Clogged lanes? Depends on who you ask. “I don’t think it’s changed a lot,” Kansas guard Marcus
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Europe’s biggest bank has reported that its net profit fell 53% in 2019 to $6 billion February 18, 2020, 6:49 AM 2 min read Europe’s biggest bank has reported that its net profit fell 53% in 2019 to $6 billion. London-based HSBC, whose profit is mainly from Asia, said Tuesday that it plans to revamp
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kellye Nakahara Wallett, a film and television actress best known for playing Lt. Nurse Kellye Yamato on “M*A*S*H,” has died at age 72. Son William Wallett told The Associated Press that Wallett died Sunday after a brief battle with cancer. She was at her home in Pasadena, California, surrounded by family
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The swing was so fundamentally sound that it got the attention of anyone who knew and cared about golf, even those considered to be among the greatest to ever play. The appeal was so strong that it carried an entire tour, even as the attention became suffocating. The rate of winning was unprecedented. No one
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne presented a trophy at last month’s Grammy Awards Ozzy Osbourne has cancelled his North American tour in order to have further treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The rock veteran, 71, revealed his diagnosis a month ago, and will travel to see doctors in Switzerland in April. He
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Shares have fallen in Asia as the impact from the virus outbreak that began in China deepened, with Apple saying it would fail to meet its profit target and China moving to cancel major events including the Beijing auto show By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer February 18, 2020, 6:56 AM 4 min read BANGKOK
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