Shyness around a routine medical examination cost Maria Hughes her life, her sister believes. The mother of three, from County Down, died from cervical cancer on her 38th birthday in 2014. She was one of more than 100 women who died from the disease in Northern Ireland between 2013 and 2017. The Public Health Authority […]
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Kate Middleton spoke out about the “isolation” she felt after giving birth to her first child, Prince George, in 2013. The Duchess of Cambridge made the candid admission on Wednesday during a stop at the Ely and Careau Children’s Centre in Cardiff, Wales, as part of her tour to support her new project, 5 Big Questions
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Image copyright Reuters Greta Thunberg should go away and study economics before lecturing investors, the US treasury secretary has said. Steven Mnuchin said the activist’s call for investors to divest fossil fuels showed a lack of understanding about the economy and jobs. “After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and
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SAN FRANCISCO — Over the first week of November, the police in San Francisco and New York responded to a series of telephone calls claiming that hostages were being held in the homes of Adam Mosseri, a senior Facebook executive. The calls appeared to be coming from inside the homes. Officers arrived in force and
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MELBOURNE, Australia — The Latest on the Australian Open (all times local): 8:35 p.m. Wimbledon champion Simona Halep has beaten British qualifier Harriet Dart 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the third round. Halep ended 2019 ranked fourth, her sixth consecutive year-end top five finish. She will next play either Danielle Collins or Yulia Putintseva. It
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Over the weekend, Mr. Biden accused the Sanders campaign of deliberately distorting his record on Social Security, prompting Mr. Shakir to issue a scathing attack on Mr. Biden. On Monday, Mr. Sanders apologized to Mr. Biden after a top surrogate for the Sanders campaign published an op-ed that claimed the former vice president had “a
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Shortly before authorities closed off the Chinese city at the epicenter of an outbreak of a new virus, the World Health Organization sent a team to check conditions on the ground in Wuhan, a city of more than 11 million people By SAM McNEIL Associated Press January 23, 2020, 8:37 AM 4 min read BEIJING
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Image copyright Inpho Image caption Alan Partridge on the red carpet in Norwich at the premiere of Alpha Papa in 2013 An Alan Partridge fan said he has spent hours scouring for “hundreds and hundreds” of second-hand props for a festival honouring the comic creation. Paul Wassell, 34, said he thought the event would be
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MELBOURNE, Australia — As one final backhand off her seeded Australian Open opponent’s racket sailed long, CiCi Bellis looked like someone who couldn’t contain her excitement, jumping and yelling. When she headed to the locker room moments later, the 20-year-old American shook her left fist, then put her hand to her ear to ask for
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Seven months later, Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Jessen waterboarded Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who allegedly led the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking plot, 183 times. But Dr. Mitchell, testifying on the second day of two weeks of hearings centered on the C.I.A. torture program, described essentially putting on a show for visiting senior intelligence officials from C.I.A.
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