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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Barbara Keeley said the campaign was “very tough” following her treatment for cancer An MP has revealed she was recovering from treatment for breast cancer during the recent general election campaign. Barbara Keeley, 67, said she was diagnosed in April, had surgery in May and radiotherapy in July. Speaking […]

Netflix has a high turnover rate for its movie library. Some movies, like the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, seem to be caught in an endless cycle of leaving and returning to the service. (The second and third “LOTR” films are currently on Netflix, but the first is not.) And with the Netflix home screen

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is banning state-funded travel to the state of California January 23, 2020, 9:30 PM 1 min read OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday banned state-funded travel to California in response to a similar ban California placed on travel to the Sooner State. The first-term Republican issued an executive

Image copyright EPA Image caption A health team are available at Heathrow Airport for travellers from China More than a dozen people in the UK have been tested for the new strain of coronavirus, Public Health England has said. Five people have tested negative while nine others are waiting for results. In Scotland, where five

Like many recent American viewers of “Love Island,” I feel like I’ve stumbled upon trash television gold. (Sorry, “90 Day Fiance,” you’ve been dethroned.) The hit ITV2 dating show is pretty simple: Take a group of conventionally “hot” 20-somethings, put them in a villa in Majorca, and watch them pair up and inevitably mate poach.

BEIJING — China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measures’ potential for success is uncertain. At least eight cities have been shut down —- Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang, Chibi, Qianjiang, Zhijiang, Jingmen and Xiantao — all

Image copyright Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty Images Image caption Brazil fans were emotional following their country’s defeat to Germany in 2014 Devoted football fans experience such intense levels of physical stress while watching their team they could be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack, research suggests. The Oxford study tested saliva from Brazilian fans

This one goes out to everyone who graduated from college during the social media era and was instructed to promptly scrub their Facebook pages for any indication of debauchery, lest their potential employer find out they have interests spanning beyond the banality of their entry-level employment: You’re not fooling anyone. And we have the queen

California is trying a new strategy to cut into the state’s huge illegal marijuana market By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press January 24, 2020, 12:21 AM 2 min read LOS ANGELES — Want to find a legal marijuana shop in California? Grab your smartphone. In another step to curb the state’s flourishing illegal pot market,

With a new virus spreading in China and beyond, a public health expert gives some advice on how to avoid catching the contagion and urges the public to be honest with their doctors. Gabriel Leung, chair of public health at Hong Kong University, was giving a press briefing on his team’s research into the spread