Experience was a factor in coach Jill Ellis’ decision to include defender Ali Krieger and midfielders Allie Long and Morgan Brian on the U.S. team that will seek to defend its title at the Women’s World Cup. All three were widely considered to be on the bubble for the 23-player roster for France that Ellis […]
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Ian Blackford asked the prime minister if she would match Nicola Sturgeon’s pledge to provide free tuition for EU student through to 2021. Theresa May told the SNP Westminster leader that the Scottish government was going to give EU students free tuition up to 2024, but English students will have to pay. He followed that
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Investors have a big appetite for fake meat. The shares of Beyond Meat, the purveyor of plant-based burgers and sausages, more than doubled Thursday in its Nasdaq debut. It’s the first pure-play maker of vegan “meat” to go public, according to Renaissance Capital, which researches and tracks IPOs. Beyond Meat raised about $240 million selling
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Image copyright Getty Images The debate around head injuries in football has been brought up again after Tottenham player Jan Vertonghen went off in Tuesday’s match against Ajax. The Spurs defender clashed heads with teammate Toby Alderweireld and tried to carry on before coming off in the Champions League semi-final first leg. The referee had
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A “significant” exhibition of the work by artist Henry Moore, the first of its kind in East Anglia, has opened at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. Born in 1898 in Yorkshire, Moore is considered to be one of the most important British artists of the 20th Century. The show, curated in collaboration with the Henry Moore
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ritesh Agarwal founded Oyo in 2013 India’s fast-growing hotel chain Oyo will expand in Europe with the purchase of an Amsterdam-based vacation rental firm. Oyo will reportedly pay €369.5m ($415m; £317.9m) for @Leisure. The Indian firm has grown rapidly since its launch in 2013 and claims it is the
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There’s evidence that antiquities are still being smuggled from Iraq and Syria into Turkey, despite a police clampdown and the retreat of the Islamic State group. Tighter restrictions on the borders have stemmed the flow but despite that and military defeats by the Islamic State group, objects are still being offered for sale. The BBC’s
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Getting into this year’s Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island will cost you $57, plus the round trip on the ferry. But that’s nothing compared to what it cost nearly 200 galleries to exhibit there. And so dealers have made the reasonable decision to bring a little of everything that sells — which may account
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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook on Thursday said it had barred Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of Infowars, and other right-wing personalities from its service, in an escalation of its enforcement of its content policies. The other people banned include: Louis Farrakhan, the outspoken black nationalist minister who has frequently been criticized for his
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James Harden squinted under the bright lights of the Toyota Center court on Thursday and parts of both eyes remained a garish, bloody red. It was clear Houston’s superstar was still dealing with injuries to his eyes after being hit by Golden State’s Draymond Green in Game 2. Harden insisted the problem wouldn’t keep him
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