The European Union said Friday that talks with the U.K. to find an amicable divorce deal were back on track, despite huge challenges and a looming end-of-month deadline for Britain to leave the bloc. Interested in Brexit? Add Brexit as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Brexit news, video, and analysis […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ringo Starr: “None of us said, ‘OK, that’s the last time we’ll ever play together’” Last week, The Beatles’ Abbey Road returned to number one, almost 50 years after its original release. Until recently, it was believed the band had entered the studio knowing they were making their final
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Image copyright Getty Images Facebook’s UK arm paid £28.5m in tax in 2018 as revenues hit a record £1.65bn on the back of strong advertising growth. The social media firms’s latest UK accounts show that profits last year jumped by 54% to £96.6m. Facebook’s total tax charge on those profits almost doubled to £30.4m, but
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From disposable headphones and plastic cutlery to food scraps and toilet waste, the average airline passenger leaves behind over three pounds of garbage, according to one estimate. To get travelers and airlines thinking — and talking — about that rather large pile of trash, a British design firm has refashioned the economy meal tray, replacing
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The NBA has decided to stay silent for the remainder of its trip with the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets in China. The Lakers and Nets will play on Saturday in Shenzhen as planned, though no news conferences for either team are scheduled to be held before or after the game. Unlike Thursday, when
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Episode 15: ‘Rudy! Rudy?’ Producer/Director John Marks The man once hailed as “America’s Mayor” is now at the center of the most confounding political story of the Trump presidency. Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials on behalf of President Trump has helped prompt the impeachment inquiry that may tarnish both men. It’s a
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Image copyright PAcemaker Image caption Wrightbus workers celebrate with champagne on hearing news of the deal A deal has been reached in principle for the sale of Wrightbus. Bidder Jo Bamford said agreement had been reached with “the Wright family for the Wrightbus factory and land”. “We are still to conclude a deal with the
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For over a century, the Jungfrau Railway has delivered tourists high into the wild and frozen terrain of Switzerland’s Bernese Alps. In 2018, more than one million people rode the train up to the Jungfraujoch, a railway station — the highest in Europe — that occupies a rocky perch between the Jungfrau and the Mönch,
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Nike says it is closing its Oregon Project track and field program following Alberto Salazar’s four-year ban. Nike says “uninformed innuendo and unsubstantiated assertions has become an unfair burden for current OP athletes. That is exactly counter to the purpose of the team. We have therefore made the decision to wind down the Oregon Project
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WASHINGTON — No one should have been surprised, and yet it seems that everyone was. President Trump made clear long ago that he wanted to get out of the Middle East, but even some of his own supporters evidently assumed that he would not follow through or that someone would stop him. As a result,
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