Image copyright Getty Images The government will not be changing the date of the Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced. It will go ahead as previously scheduled on 11 March. There had been speculation that the Budget could be delayed after Mr Sunak replaced Sajid Javid following his resignation last week. Mr Sunak tweeted that […]
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During a quick swing through Utah last spring, I texted my husband a photo from a ski area of rock- and tree-lined steeps. “Is that Snowbird or Alta?” he responded. His guess was good, but he was about 70 miles off. I was at Snowbasin in northern Utah, a 45-minute drive from Salt Lake City.
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Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have registered a case against unidentified internet users who employed virtual private networks, or VPNs, to circumvent a social media ban in the disputed region By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press February 18, 2020, 10:55 AM 3 min read NEW DELHI — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have registered a case against unidentified internet
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MADRID — More than five years ago, one of Spain’s most successful karate athletes was splitting his time between practice, graduate school and his day job as an aeronautical engineer. Before training and studying at night, Damián Quintero spent hours analyzing faulty airplane parts and working on complex calculations to determine whether the parts were
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WASHINGTON — Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York has qualified for Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, the first time the billionaire will appear onstage alongside his Democratic presidential rivals. A national poll from NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist released on Tuesday showed Mr. Bloomberg with 19 percent support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents,
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France’s defense minister says her country supports Cyprus amid tensions over a Turkish search for natural gas inside Cypriot waters By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press February 18, 2020, 10:51 AM 2 min read NICOSIA, Cyprus — France’s defense minister said Tuesday that her country stands in solidarity with Cyprus amid tensions over a Turkish search
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Image caption Duane Oates spends four mornings a week on a dialysis machine Time is not on Duane Oates’ side. His body is being slowly poisoned. Three years ago he found out that his kidneys had begun to shut down. Now, most days the 56-year-old spends hours hooked up to a dialysis machine that removes
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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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