Image copyright Getty Images Viggo Mortensen has denounced far right Spanish political party Vox after it tweeted a meme featuring the actor playing Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. The meme, shared by the nationalist party’s official Twitter account in April, showed Aragorn lining up to face off against the assembled hordes of Vox’s apparent […]
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Image copyright PA Every adult in the UK should receive a weekly basic income of £48, according to the recommendations in a new report. The move could be paid for by scrapping more than 1,000 tax reliefs, a report by Professor Guy Standing, a professor at SOAS University suggests. The Labour Party – which has
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Whenever I told someone I was planning to climb to Mount Everest Base Camp this spring, I received the same shocked and wide-eyed response: “Be careful!” While that’s good advice for any adventure, it was difficult to convince friends and family that this trip would not at all be the same thing as actually climbing
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A little bit of silence. Sometimes that’s all we want. Whether it’s halfway through a 10-hour flight with a crying baby, or trying to sleep though the snoring from the hotel room next door, the promise of noise-canceling headphones is one that every traveler probably finds intriguing. Yet are they worth it? These headphones are
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James Harden and the Houston Rockets dug out of a 0-2 hole to even their Western Conference semifinals series with the Golden State Warriors after another game where they fought, scrapped and held off a late rally to get a victory. Harden scored 38 points and the Rockets got a 112-108 win on Monday night
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The prime minister’s de facto deputy, David Lidington, says that “regrettably”, the Brexit process will not finish in time to avoid the UK having to take part in European Parliament elections. He said the government would be “redoubling” its efforts to make sure the delay to Brexit was “as short as possible”. “Ideally, we’d like
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Image copyright David Cheskin/PA Wire Image caption Frank Atherton said older people needed to understand the benefits of getting the flu vaccine Wales’ chief medical officer has warned of the threat from anti-vaccination campaigners. In his annual report, Dr Frank Atherton said people needed to be made aware of the benefits of vaccines. In January,
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After the bruising Battle of Winterfell, the celebratory banquet scene in this weekend’s Game of Thrones episode made perfect sense. Choosing to toast the demise of the Night King with an apparent Starbucks coffee, however, certainly did not. Eagle-eyed viewers spotted a coffee cup on the table in the great hall, as Mother of Dragons
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Image copyright Neil Garnham Image caption Neil Garnham lost £350 to scammers “I considered myself quite savvy but now I’m suspicious of everybody.” Neil Garnham from Rochester, Kent, works in an industry dealing with cold hard cash. He’s so careful with his money, he doesn’t even own a credit card. But when he tried to
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The 52 Places Traveler Facing rain on the Black Sea in Georgia and crushing crowds on the Red Sea in Israel, the 52 Places Traveler decides to improvise. May 7, 2019 Our columnist, Sebastian Modak, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2019 list. He spent a week in Georgia before
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