India’s economy grew by 5.8% during the January to March 2019 quarter – a sharp fall compared to 7.7% during the same period last year. This is the slowest pace of growth in almost two years. But how accurate are all these figures? There’s a raging controversy in India over how GDP data is collected […]
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NASA is going to land on the moon again, maybe as soon as next year. The agency won’t be sending people, though. It’ll be at least five more years before astronauts walk on the moon again. But on Friday, NASA is to announce the first contracts to send small experiments and technology packages there aboard
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He doesn’t wear a baseball glove, and he didn’t need one. Ben Stokes of England’s cricket team just made the “catch of the century,” according to former player Phil Tufnell. Stokes’ leaping, one-handed grab against South Africa in Thursday’s ICC Cricket World Cup match at The Oval in London invited high praise elsewhere from those
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President Trump on Thursday threatened to hit Mexico with new tariffs, escalating his immigration fight with America’s largest trading partner. And with that, he showed, once again, that he’s ready to employ trade as an all-purpose tool for his policy goals. Mr. Trump is juggling multiple trade conflicts today, with allies and rivals alike. His
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“It makes me feel really good to hear Trump say farmers are important to this country,” he said. “That’s what makes me want to stick with the president.” And while he hopes the trade fight is settled soon, he doesn’t think trade is the “silver bullet” that is going to solve farmers’ problems. When heavy
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Image caption Whorlton Hall is a 17-bed unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism The health watchdog is launching a review into how it handled a 2015 report raising concerns about Whorlton Hall hospital. Former Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspector Barry Stanley-Wilkinson said he wrote the report four years before BBC Panorama revealed the
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Image copyright GENARO MOLINA/Getty images Image caption Ashton Kutcher testifies in an LA courtroom during the trial of an alleged serial killer US actor Ashton Kutcher testified in an LA courtroom that he called on a young woman’s home for a date in 2001, not realising she lay dead inside. When the woman, Ashley Ellerin,
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Image copyright Reuters US President Donald Trump’s threat to open a trade war with Mexico has sent Wall Street sliding, with shares in carmakers among the worst hit. Markets in Europe were already spooked by news the US would hit Mexico with tariffs in an anti-immigration measure. The main US markets eased back from opening
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A second company has cut ties with a California minor league baseball team that played a Memorial Day video that included an image of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with images of Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro. The Fresno Bee reports Heineken International confirmed Thursday it ended its relationship with the Fresno Grizzlies. The company’s
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For many Democrats, the aftermath of the Mueller report raised one central question: Would Robert S. Mueller III have charged President Trump with a crime if Justice Department policy had not prevented him from doing so? On Friday, Senator Elizabeth Warren said the answer was yes. Ms. Warren, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for
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