Image caption London-born singer Michael Kiwanuka won the BBC’s Sound of 2012 Brit Award nominee Michael Kiwanuka will be one of the headline acts at the 2020 Green Man festival. He will join fellow headliners Caribou, Mac DeMarco and Little Dragon at Glanusk Park near Crickhowell, Powys, between 20 and 23 August. Kiwanuka’s number one […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has recorded its first annual fall in profits in at least five years, as its efforts to respond to privacy and content concerns took a toll on firm’s bottom line. The tech giant, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said profits sank 16% in 2019 to $18.4bn (£14.1bn). The fall came
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Even as Facebook has grappled with one corporate embarrassment after another, it has remained a business powerhouse. But on Wednesday, the social network encountered the perils of being an aging corporation: It reported its slowest growth ever. Facebook’s revenue in the last three months of 2019 rose 25 percent from a year earlier to $21
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A person with knowledge of the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Dusty Baker has reached an agreement to be the manager of the Houston Astros By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer January 29, 2020, 10:28 PM 5 min read HOUSTON — Dusty Baker has reached an agreement to be the manager of the Houston
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JERUSALEM — For Mahmoud Abbas, the ailing octogenarian president of the Palestinian Authority, his life’s work — a viable state side-by-side with Israel — is quickly slipping away. President Trump’s Middle East plan deprives the Palestinians of nearly everything they had been fighting for: East Jerusalem as their national capital, the removal of Jewish settlements
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Attorneys for Pacific Gas & Electric are assuring a federal judge the utility will emerge from bankruptcy by a June 30 deadline as an investor-owned company By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer January 29, 2020, 10:10 PM 2 min read SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric attorneys on Wednesday assured a federal judge the
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German authorities say a man confirmed as the country’s first case of the new virus that emerged in China is believed to have been infected by a Chinese colleague who visited his workplace last week January 28, 2020, 8:36 PM 3 min read BERLIN — A man confirmed as Germany’s first case of the new
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Vanessa Bryant shared a touching photo of her husband, Kobe Bryant, and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, who were two of the nine people killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. In the sweet photo, which is now Vanessa’s profile picture on Instagram, Kobe is looking down and smiling at his daughter while she looks up at him. Vanessa
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Image copyright PA Media UK house prices rose at their fastest annual rate for 14 months, according to the Nationwide, with an increase of 1.9% in January. Commentators suggest there has been some release of pent-up demand following the clear general election result. However, the Nationwide, which bases its figures on its own mortgage data,
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Facebook’s quarterly profit and revenue handily surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, despite challenges around regulation and efforts to fight election interference By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer January 29, 2020, 9:37 PM 2 min read San Francisco — Facebook’s profit and revenue for the last three months of 2019 handily surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, as the
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