KABUL, Afghanistan — Aspen! Zermatt! Kabul? While Afghanistan’s capital may seem an unlikely destination for snowboarders, a group of young Afghans is looking to put the city on the winter sports map and change perceptions about their war-weary nation. Kabul is better known for its hulking concrete blast walls and tense security checkpoints. But it […]
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Tom Steyer spent nearly $17 million on television ads in Iowa but emerged from the caucuses with less than 1 percent of the state delegate count. What happened? This was one of the first questions of Mr. Steyer’s hourlong CNN town hall, and his response was the first in a series of attacks on Pete
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Designers started showing 2020 jewelry trends back in the fall of 2019, during the spring/summer runway shows for this year. Now that the cold winds of January are whipping around us (unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere), it’s time to find out which of those trends are rolling and which got left in the
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Image caption Zoe Ball began hosting Radio 2’s breakfast show in January 2019 Zoe Ball has added 335,000 listeners to her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, the latest industry figures reveal. Data from industry body Rajar shows Ball’s breakfast show attracted an average weekly audience of 8.24 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. It
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Image copyright Getty Images Airbnb will no longer allow under-25s in Canada to book whole properties in their local area, to try to prevent potentially violent house parties. The new rules follow a shooting at a Toronto Airbnb booking last week in which three people were killed. Violence occurred with a very small percentage of
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Actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci were all made to look much, much younger in the Oscar nominated film The Irishman. The visual effects were developed by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) who created their own digital de-aging process. BBC Click spoke to Pablo Helman, the film’s VFX Supervisor to find out
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Hayley Scamurra scored in the third period, leading the United States to a 3-1 victory over Canada in Game 4 of their Rivalry Series February 6, 2020, 8:22 AM 5 min read VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Hilary Knight and her U.S. teammates carried a decade-old grudge into Game 4 of their Rivalry Series with Canada,
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Iowa Democratic officials said on a private conference call on Wednesday night that nearly all the much-delayed results of Monday’s caucuses would be released by Thursday, although a few precincts might remain outstanding. The reason? Tally sheets had been dropped into snail mail. Party leaders revealed new details of how the reporting process went calamitously
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Flights have resumed at an Istanbul airport after a Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, killing three people and injuring 180 others By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press February 6, 2020, 8:17 AM 2 min read ISTANBUL — Flights resumed Thursday at an Istanbul airport after a Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, killing three people
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A flight headed to Las Vegas from Seoul, South Korea, was diverted to Los Angeles over concerns that some of the passengers might have been exposed to a new virus February 6, 2020, 1:14 AM 1 min read LOS ANGELES — A Korean Air flight headed to Las Vegas from Seoul, South Korea, was diverted
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