Image copyright Aitor Throup As 21st Century rock ‘n’ roll names go, they don’t come much bigger in the UK than Serge Pizzorno. Over the past 15 years his tub-thumping band Kasabian have been selling out stadiums and headlining festivals like Glastonbury. The guitarist/singer’s name has also been synonymous with wonder goals at Soccer Aid […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Everybody loves Warren: At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting If what goes up, must come down, it stands to reason that a professional stockpicker can’t get it right all the time. Sooner or later, the fairy dust evaporates, as Neil Woodford found out this week when he was forced
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In the small Japanese town of Otsuchi, 2,000 residents were lost in the tsunami in 2011. One resident, who had already been grieving his cousin before the tsunami hit, had the idea of placing an old phone booth at the bottom of his garden with a disconnected rotary phone. He would ring his cousin’s number
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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and wife Brittany are battling a California jeweler over the value of diamonds they claim they purchased for more than $15 million as an investment. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the diamonds were displayed when trial of the couple’s lawsuit against Vihad Moradi and CJ Charles jewelers began Thursday.
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CRESCO, Iowa — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. retains a lead among likely Iowa caucusgoers, but both he and Senator Bernie Sanders have lost ground over the past three months while Senator Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., have made clear gains, according to a new poll from
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Are robot baristas the future of South Korea’s vibrant coffee culture? Dal.komm Coffee thinks so. The company now has 45 robot-equipped outlets in shopping malls, company cafeterias, schools and an airport. Coffee is just one of many industries that could be transformed by automated services in this tech-forward nation, a notion both exciting and worrisome
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Joey Logano was just a bit faster than Aric Almirola during qualifying. Almirola is getting used to that feeling. Logano won his second NASCAR Cup Series pole of the season Saturday, while Almirola again fell just short of the top qualifying spot. Almirola has one pole this year but is set to start in the
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Had Oskar Sundqvist not gotten suspended and Robert Thomas ruled out with a nagging injury, Zach Sanford might never have gotten a chance to show his stuff on hockey’s biggest stage. If Vince Dunn not taken a puck to the mouth during the last round, Robert Bortuzzo might not have had the chance to score
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WASHINGTON — The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the United States over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations. Friday’s joint declaration
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A senior executive for Chinese technology giant Huawei said Thursday that he hopes the company’s animosity with the United States will be resolved and warned that the U.S. will be shooting itself in the foot if it were to shun Chinese technology. Mika Lauhde, Huawei’s vice-president for cybersecurity and privacy, told The Associated Press that
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