Wuhan is the centre of a deadly coronavirus outbreak, and all 11 million residents have been advised to stay at home as the Chinese city remains under quarantine. Video clips on Chinese social media have emerged showing residents shouting encouragement and singing songs from their apartment windows at night, in an effort to boost each […]
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TOKYO — Panic and pollution drive the market for protective face masks, so business is booming in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is straining supplies and helping make mask-wearing the new normal. Demand for face masks and hand sanitizing liquid has soared, as both local residents and visitors from China stock up
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer was not going to go gently, of course, no matter how daunting the number of match points — his opponent accumulated seven! — no matter how achy his 38-year-old legs, no matter how slow his serves, no matter how off-target his groundstrokes. Federer still plays for the love of these
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Closing out a long day, Alan Dershowitz, perhaps the Trump team’s best-known lawyer, said House managers had resorted to “politically loaded and promiscuously deployed” charges to cast President Trump’s conduct as impeachable. He insisted that the House managers tried to substitute “psychoanalysis” for concrete evidence against the president, deciding that Mr. Trump was “only interested
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TOKYO — Panic and pollution drive the market for protective face masks, so business is booming in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is straining supplies and helping make mask-wearing the new normal. Demand for face masks and hand sanitizing liquid has soared, as both local residents and visitors from China stock up
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China has confirmed more than 4,500 cases of a new virus, with 106 deaths January 28, 2020, 7:33 AM 1 min read China has confirmed more than 4,500 cases of a new virus, with 106 deaths. Most have been in the central city of Wuhan where the outbreak began in December. More than 50 cases
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Nick Kyrgios of Australia paid tribute to Kobe Bryant in his fourth-round match at the Australian Open on Monday by wearing a Lakers No. 8 Bryant jersey before he was to play Rafael Nadal of Spain. WILLIAM WEST via Getty Images In addition to mourning the NBA great, who died with his daughter and seven others
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s financial regulator has asked banks to explain how they have decided their new overdraft rates. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said most High Street banks had set “very similar prices”, after it demanded changes to the system. Several big brands including Santander, Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC are set
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It takes a village to preserve a village — especially one like Telluride, Colo., where Butch Cassidy robbed his first bank in 1889 and where the streets, at 8,750 feet elevation, are still dotted with storybook Gold Rush cabins. “These were little mining towns that when they were built, probably weren’t meant to last,” said
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No. 18 Iowa faces a pair of tests against ranked Big Ten teams to highlight the AP Top 25 schedule this week By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer January 28, 2020, 8:52 AM 4 min read RALEIGH, N.C. — Iowa has a big week ahead in the Big Ten race. The No. 18 Hawkeyes have
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