Image copyright Getty Images NatWest is the most complained about bank when it comes to handling fraud claims, a BBC probe has revealed. The Financial Ombudsman has seen a rise in complaints about NatWest, with it becoming the most complained about bank for fraud this year. In addition, in the last six months BBC Watchdog […]
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Since the fall of the Islamic State group’s attempted caliphate in Syria, hundreds of its prisoners have been freed. Few were brutalised more by IS than Yazidis, a religious minority who were captured and enslaved when IS swept through their homeland in Sinjar, northern Iraq. The UN says IS killed or enslaved thousands of Yazidis,
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When Lonnie Bunch started working on the Smithsonian’s first black museum, he had no collection, no building and one employee. The Smithsonian Institution rewarded the founding director of the wildly popular museum on Tuesday by putting him in charge of all 19 of its museums, making Bunch the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch,
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A longtime scientist for a U.S. laboratory in New Mexico pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he lied about contacts he had with a state-run program in China that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent. Turab Lookman, who lives in Santa Fe and until recently worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory — tasked with
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Toronto Raptors point guard Jeremy Lin revealed on Wednesday that a security guard actually stopped him from boarding his own team’s bus after the second game of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks. “The dude in the Milwaukee arena just screams at me and is like, ‘Where do you think you’re going?’”
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday declined to label China as a currency manipulator despite President Trump’s repeated complaint that Beijing has weakened the renminbi as a way to take advantage of the United States on trade. The decision not to formally accuse China of manipulating its currency could avoid further escalating tensions between
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The Look The American bat mitzvah has never been more widely broadcast than in 2019. Judith Kaplan Eisenstein didn’t celebrate her bat mitzvah in a hotel ballroom with a D.J. or an open bar for her grown-up guests. Instead, Ms. Kaplan Eisenstein, who in 1922 was the first American girl to become a bat mitzvah
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The nation’s first state trial against drugmakers blamed for contributing to the opioid crisis started Tuesday in Oklahoma in a case that could shape negotiations to resolve the roughly 1,500 other opioid lawsuits consolidated before a federal judge. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter started opening statements by saying powerful painkillers have led to the “worst
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Image caption Iggy Azalea’s hits include Work, Fancy and Trouble Iggy Azalea has deactivated her social media accounts, after her topless photos were leaked online. The pictures were taken during a photoshoot for GQ magazine in 2016, but never intended for publication. The Australian rapper said she felt “blindsided, embarrassed, violated [and] angry” by the
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Image copyright Reuters Government officials say they are making “good progress” in finding potential buyers for British Steel which collapsed last week. The Official Receiver said it had made contact with more than 80 potential purchasers, 60 of whom have been sent non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). NDAs give bidders access to information that helps them prepare
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