Image copyright ITV Studios Image caption Jessie J is a coach on the current series of The Voice Kids For most people, sitting in a big red chair on TV means you’re about to be tipped backwards by Graham Norton. For Jessie J, however, it’s the chance to potentially make a significant difference to the […]
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Image copyright PA A £100m fund has been established to help UK firms capitalise on the boom in offshore wind. With the UK so well suited to exploiting wind power, turbines have been erected in more than 30 locations from Brighton to the Moray Firth. But trade unions say the boom has not generated enough
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A report released last week by Midia Research, which studies online media, portrayed a classical market in transition, with a relatively small economic impact but wide potential. According to the report, which Idagio commissioned, classical recordings generated $384 million around the world last year. That’s a small piece of the $19.1 billion of sales revenue
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Javier Baez hit a milestone homer to win a game after Pete Alonso went deep once again to set a team record. Baez cracked the 100th homer of his career, a three-run drive in the eighth inning as the Chicago Cubs overcame another home run by Alonso to beat the New York Mets 5-3 on
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Image copyright Getty Images The teeth of people living in care homes in England are being left to rot, dentists say. The warning comes after the Care Quality Commission found that residents did not always have access to dentists and were not getting the support they needed to look after their teeth. Its inspectors visited
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Hannah Green held her nerve and saved par from the bunker with a 5-foot putt on the final hole to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday for her first major championship, and the first by an Australian in 13 years. Green closed with an even-par 72 at Hazeltine for a one-shot victory over
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When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of the insurance giant MetLife talks to a customer over the phone, he keeps one eye on the bottom-right corner of his screen. There, in a little blue box, A.I. tells him how he’s doing. Talking too fast? The program flashes an icon of
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Bobby Bradley was showered with applause when he ran onto the field, then soaked with beer upon returning to the home clubhouse. Both experiences were even better than he had imagined. Bradley doubled and drove in a run in his first major league plate appearance as the Cleveland Indians completed a three-game sweep of the
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg faced a tense crowd at a town-hall event in South Bend on Sunday, fielding questions about a shooting by a city police officer last week as the audience booed, applauded and shouted over him. Mr. Buttigieg, seated on a stage next to the police chief, responded calmly to
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Last year, he used Amazon’s self-publishing platform to issue “Adventure,” about the Atari 2600. ‘Amazon has done it again’ Some counterfeit books, like Mr. Thomas’s, are wholly made on Amazon. Sometimes they come from elsewhere. One example is “The Art of Assembly Language,” an older computer manual published by No Starch Press. It ended up
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