Image copyright Holly Eastall Image caption Holly Eastall and her baby son Louie who died from sudden infant death syndrome A mother who lost her son to cot death says she wants a change in how such cases are reported after misleading headlines left her feeling “suicidal”. Holly Eastall, 23, from Kingston, south-west London, was […]
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Emilia Clarke plays Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s popular fantasy series The latest episode of Game of Thrones was uploaded to Amazon early due to an “error”, the company has said. The second instalment of the eighth and final series was not supposed to be broadcast until Sunday evening. But some
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Image caption The Samsung Galaxy Fold is supposed to be released on 26 April Samsung has postponed two launch events for its folding smartphone, days after several early reviewers said the screens on their devices had broken. In April, Samsung let several reviewers, including the BBC, try its new Galaxy Fold smartphone. But some found
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Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has told the BBC why his government decided to revoke Julian Assange’s asylum. The Wikileaks co-founder was arrested in London on 11 April after seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy. Mr Moreno accused Mr Assange of rubbing excrement on the embassy walls. Mr Assange’s lawyer has accused Ecuador of “outrageous allegations”.
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While primarily a painter of people, the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn immortalized at least one tulip. In 1634 he painted his wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh, as Flora, goddess of spring and flowers, crowned with a wreath of blooms, of which the largest is a tulip. Its petals are unmistakably striped, with white and red
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Sri Lanka blocked several social media networks in the wake of terrorist attacks on Sunday, including Facebook and the messaging service WhatsApp. The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence. YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Viber were also inaccessible, according to internet monitoring groups.
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Kawhi Leonard missed the NBA playoffs last season, in multiple ways. He wasn’t playing the games. He wasn’t feeling the games, either. That’s not a problem this season for the 2014 NBA Finals MVP. Healthy and happy, Leonard has the Toronto Raptors one win away from the second round. He scored 34 points and the
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When asked about delaying Brexit to 31 October, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “I don’t think it’s a good idea and it’s not delivering on the referendum result.” “People expected to leave on 29 March and here we are heading towards Halloween. There is some symbolism in that, I think,” he said. The Brexiteer also
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Psychologically, scholarships can be exciting and make students feel wanted, Ms. Keane said, but students need to consider the full picture. Think of scholarships as “coupons,” she said, and consider the percentage of the total cost that such aid will cover. If you get a $10,000 scholarship but need to cover costs of $20,000, that’s
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The drinking water in Paradise, California, where 85 people died last year in the nation’s worst wildfire in a century, is contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical benzene, officials said. Officials said they believe the contamination happened after the November firestorm created a toxic combination of gases in burning homes that got sucked into the water
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