Image copyright Getty Images Pharrell Williams says the controversy surrounding Blurred Lines made him realise some of his songs “catered” to a sexist culture. The singer says at first he didn’t understand why some people saw the lyrics as “rapey”. But he later realised that “there are men who use the same language when taking […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s financial regulator has announced a crackdown on the car financing industry which it claims will save drivers £165m. The Financial Conduct Authority wants to ban the way that some car dealers and brokers make commission on sales. It said that some dealers make commission on the loan’s interest rate,
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A look at what’s happening around the majors Tuesday: CAPITAL GAINS Patrick Corbin can pitch the Nationals to their first pennant when Washington goes for a four-game sweep of slumping St. Louis in the NL Championship Series. The $140 million lefty starts at home against Cardinals rookie Dakota Hudson. Washington hasn’t put a baseball team
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As he stood amid the thick old-growth forests in the coastal range of Oregon, Dave Wiens was nervous. Before he trained to shoot his first barred owl, he had never fired a gun. He eyed the big female owl, her feathers streaked brown and white, perched on a branch at just the right distance. Then
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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James broke his silence regarding the controversy around Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey’s now-deleted tweet that declared support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. “I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand
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Facebook officially moved forward with its plans Monday to create a new digital currency called Libra, despite several high-profile defections from the project and intense criticism from U.S. regulators and politicians. The Libra Association, the nonprofit that will govern the currency, officially signed on 21 charter members on Monday at the organization’s inaugural meeting in
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Image caption Elton John says he won’t stop making music once his farewell tour ends next year He may have started out singing cover versions on cheap compilation albums, but Elton John went on to become the fifth highest-selling recording artist of all time. He was the first musician to enter the US album charts
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Esther Duflo and her husband and fellow prize-winner Abhijit Banerjee Economics Nobel prize winner Esther Duflo says she wants to use the award “as a megaphone” in her fight to ease poverty and improve children’s education. Prof Duflo, only the second woman to win the economics award, told the BBC
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Instead of dwelling on the St. Louis Cardinals’ troubles at the plate after two losses in the NL Championship Series, manager Mike Shildt tried to accentuate the positives. “We’ve pitched really, really well,” he said. “We’ve played really good defense. We’ve run the bases when we’re getting the opportunities really well.” Not anymore. And it
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WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday. Mr. Bolton got into a sharp exchange on
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