Image copyright David M. Benett Image caption The Ferryman, set on a farm in rural Northern Ireland, stars Paddy Considine (left) A play about a former IRA activist, set during The Troubles, is up for best play at this year’s Tony Awards. The Ferryman, by James Bond writer and director team Jez Butterworth and Sam […]
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Image copyright Beyond Meat Beyond Meat has lifted its share price range ahead of its US flotation on Wednesday, valuing the plant-based meat-maker at nearly $1.5bn (£1.1bn). The US firm, which counts actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio among its investors, will now offer its shares at between $23 and $25. The decision to increase the
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Mozambique requires urgent life-saving relief to deal with the destructive aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth, an aid organisation has said. Save the Children says the humanitarian situation is significant and life-threatening and more funds are needed. BBC Africa’s Lebo Diseko reports from Pemba in the north-east of the country, where heavy rains are continuing to hamper
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MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mark Zuckerberg declared last month that he planned to shift Facebook away from being a public town square and to private communications. Now the chief executive is rolling out the first in a series of changes to achieve that. On Tuesday at its annual developer conference, Facebook unveiled a redesign of
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Courtney Banghart built the Princeton women’s basketball program to the point that winning conference championships and going to the NCAA Tournament seemingly became routine. Now she’ll try to do the same at North Carolina. UNC hired Banghart on Tuesday to be the Tar Heels’ new coach. Her challenge in Chapel Hill includes going from an
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The original plan was also one that everyone rejected from the beginning — Mr. Trump even criticized public-private partnerships, which were key to the plan’s financing — and no new plan has been put forward since. But Democrats went to the White House for a meeting, intent to play along as if there was a
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H. Johannes Witteveen, a Dutch economist and politician who, as head of the International Monetary Fund from 1973 to 1978, helped steer the world economy through some of the worst turbulence since World War II, died on April 23. He was 97. His death was confirmed on the website of a Sufi Muslim organization in
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Derek Martindale, who has haemophilia, was one of the first people to give evidence at the public hearings into the UK’s contaminated blood scandal. The inquiry is looking at how thousands of people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood they were given in the 1970s and 1980s. Mr Martindale was diagnosed
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Image copyright Vectis Auctions Image caption Three master models sold at Vectis Auctions A prototype of a Star Wars toy has sold for £36,000 at auction. The 1980s master model of Bib Fortuna, a male Twi’lek who lived on Tatooine, had an estimate of £12,000. It sold at Thornaby-based Vectis Auctions along with prototypes of
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Image copyright British Steel Image caption British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant British Steel has secured a £100m loan from the government to pay its EU carbon bill, a source close to the company has said. The money means the private equity-owned firm will avoid a steep EU fine. The firm said earlier this month it needed
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