Amenities Inside my room, a Nespresso Essenza Mini coffee maker sat atop a mini-fridge stocked with Voss water, Coca-Cola, Fever-Tree mixers and Labatt Blue beer —- the sole Canadian product. A tiny welcome box from Montreal’s Suite88 Chocolatier delighted me, until I noticed prices on a little placard (6 to 11 dollars). The hushed, subterranean […]
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A Japanese aerospace startup funded by a former internet maverick successfully launched a small rocket into space Saturday, making it the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach orbit. Interstellar Technology Inc. said the unmanned MOMO-3 rocket exceeded 100 kilometers (60 miles) in altitude before falling into the Pacific Ocean. It was launched from the
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IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday he has “a lot of sympathy” for Caster Semenya after the South African runner lost her Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal in a landmark case against track and field’s governing body. Based on Wednesday’s CAS decision, Semenya, who won the 800 meters at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics,
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Cynthia Warmbier, the mother of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died in 2017 after being imprisoned for months in North Korea, said on Friday that diplomacy with its leader, Kim Jong-un, was a “charade” and likened Mr. Kim’s regime to “absolute evil.” “It’s obvious to the world that we’re on to him,” she said
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The labor market the United States is experiencing right now wasn’t supposed to be possible. Not that long ago, the overwhelming consensus among economists would have been that you couldn’t have a 3.6 percent unemployment rate without also seeing the rate of job creation slowing (where are new workers going to come from with so
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More than 1,000 people have died from Ebola in eastern Congo since August, the country’s health minister said Friday as hostility toward health workers continues to hamper efforts to contain the second-deadliest outbreak of the virus. Health Minister Oly Ilunga told The Associated Press that four deaths in the outbreak’s epicenter of Katwa helped push
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Les Murray has been described as “the greatest English-language poet since Yeats” Les Murray called himself a “subhuman redneck”, but the Australian poet and writer was also “the patron saint of misfits” who sang the nation’s landscape, culture and vernacular into being, writes Gary Nunn. The bush bard. Rustic
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Avengers cast Avengers: Endgame broke all box office records last weekend and has confirmed Disney’s dominance in global cinema. More than 90% of the value of all tickets sold in UK cinemas last weekend was for Avengers: Endgame. Within five days it had become the fastest film to
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Deforestation caused by palm oil cultivation is pushing orangutans into the path of farmers who shoot the animals with air rifles to get rid of them. This is a series about the animals of Indonesia’s Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them. Leuser is one of the most biodiverse places on earth. Part
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This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit, South Africa’s predominantly female team of anti-poachers. Established in 2013, the 36 women patrol the Balule Nature Reserve, a 100,000-acre private wildlife reserve in northern South Africa, on the western boundary of Kruger National Park. The women, some of whom are as young
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