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Australia’s Daily Telegraph prints rival’s pages by mistake

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Sydney Daily Telegraph has apologised for the printing error One of Australia’s most popular tabloids has blamed a printing error after pages from a rival newspaper appeared in its Thursday edition. The Sydney-based Daily Telegraph, a right-leaning tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, accidentally printed two pages of the […]

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The Case For Discriminating Against Incompetent Men

Business / En Sound Media

How many of us have worked for a crappy boss? Too many, according to psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, who explores how narcissists and megalomaniacs rise to the top and the ways we can escape bad bosses in his new book, Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and how to fix it). Chamorro-Premuzic’s solution is two-pronged:

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On Everest, a Trail of Old and Faulty Oxygen Equipment

Travel / En Sound Media

In 2005, his father, David Matthews, brought manslaughter charges against members of the expedition’s organizer and the oxygen gear supplier. (In England, a citizen can bring a private criminal prosecution.) But the next year, a judge threw out the case, ruling that there was no evidence proving that Michael Matthews, whose body was never found,

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Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5 Billion by F.T.C. Over Privacy Issues

Technology / En Sound Media

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Wednesday that it expected to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations. The penalty would be a record by the agency against a technology company and a sign that the United States was willing to punish big tech companies. The social network

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Bishop now the Stars goalie trying to beat Blues in playoffs

Sports / En Sound Media

Ben Bishop grew up rooting for the St. Louis Blues before being drafted by them. He remembers being in the stands at 14 years old during a playoff series against the Stars and wholeheartedly taking part of the chants of “Bel-four!” directed at the Dallas goalie. Now 18 years after that St. Louis sweep to

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Amid Charged Atmosphere at Amherst, Jeff Sessions Calls for Country to Move on From Mueller Report

Politics / En Sound Media

As a member of the Trump administration, Mr. Sessions said, he was a potential witness in the inquiry and therefore should not lead it. The decision drew the president’s ire, subjecting Mr. Sessions to months of public criticism and private humiliation. Mr. Sessions resigned in November 2018 at Mr. Trump’s request. The Amherst College Republicans

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Thasunda Brown Duckett of Chase: ‘People Need to Know Who You Are’

Finance / En Sound Media

How do you make the case that people should save more without making it feel judgmental? I start with the question, “What are you saving for?” Last year I asked that of our own employees, and it went viral internally. People told me their hopes and dreams. In our branches, employees put vision boards together

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Is it really worth injecting vitamins?

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images There is a growing trend for intravenous “vitamin” drips – but what are the risks? And do they even work? Last month, a 51-year-old woman from Hunan, China, nearly died after blending 20 different fruits to create a homemade intravenous (IV) drip. She thought vitamins from the fresh fruit would benefit

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End free TV licences and bus passes for pensioners, peers say

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Free TV licences, winter fuel payments and other “outdated” age-related benefits should be scrapped, a group of peers has said, with the money spent on housing and training for young people. The Committee on Intergenerational Fairness said subsidising licences for over-75s were no longer justified given improvements in pensioners’ incomes. It

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Extinction Rebellion: Climate activists block London Stock Exchange

Business / En Sound Media

Image copyright PA Image caption Protesters have glued themselves to each other and to the building in the City of London Climate activists have blockaded the London Stock Exchange by gluing themselves across the entrances. Protesters from Extinction Rebellion attached themselves to walls and to each other at the financial centre in the City of

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