Sadiq Khan Accuses Donald Trump Of Acting Like A '12-Year-Old'
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Is Piers Morgan quitting Good Morning Britain? Controversial host says 'never again'
Wives who nag and withhold sex are inflicting 'emotional and psychological abuse', Malaysian politician says
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NewsSky NewsUK higher education giant eyes £700m sale as Brexit looms
The largest provider of international students to Britain's higher education institutions is preparing to kick off a £700m sale amid uncertainty about Brexit's impact on UK immigration restrictions. Sky News has learnt that the controlling shareholder in Study Group, which is headquartered in London, has hired bankers at Morgan Stanley (Xetra: 885836 - news) and Rothschild to oversee an auction of the company.
NewsAFPHong Kong firm beats Brexit blues with record City skycraper deal
The 'Walkie Talkie' skyscraper, seen in the centre front of this photo, fetched the e highest price ever paid for a single building in Britain at £1.3 billion (1.5 billion euros, $1.7 billion)
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Conor McGregor’s height, reach, weight and record: His essential stats ahead of his fight with Floyd Mayweather
Conor McGregor is widely expected to suffer an ignominious defeat when he makes his professional boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather, on August 26 at the T-Mobile Arena.
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Who is Charlie Gard, what is the disease he suffers from and what has been decided?
Who is Charlie Gard, what is the disease he suffers from and what has been decided?
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Johnson: UK 'prepared' to send troops to Asia in post-Brexit commitment
Britain is prepared to deploy troops to Asia amid regional tensions as part of a greater post-Brexit commitment, Boris Johnson has said. The Foreign Secretary is ending a nine-day tour of Japan, New Zealand and Australia, as he tries to forge new trade relationships for when the UK quits the EU. Mr Johnson revealed his trip was also planned to pass on the message that Britain is "now going to be more committed to the Asia-Pacific region" as the UK looks "afresh" at the area after Brexit.
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Transfer News: Manchester United Prepares £44 Million Bid for RB Leipzig Star, Philippe Coutinho ‘Certain’ to Leave Liverpool
Manchester United will turn towards Emil Forsberg as the likelihood of a deal for Ivan Perisic recedes. The Manchester Evening News reports the RB Leipzig winger, 25, has emerged as a person of interest for Jose Mourinho. Set-piece specialist Forsberg, 25, was a key player as RB Leipzig shocked the Bundesliga by finishing second to Bayern Munich, qualifying for the 2017-18 Champions League in the process.
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Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy seriously intimidated Fionn Whitehead
All three star in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk
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UK businesses will face a skills cliff-edge if Theresa May gets her migration plan wrong
A key priority for manufacturers since the EU referendum has been ensuring government addresses the acute skills gap in manufacturing now and in the future. The government has commissioned the MAC to do just that.
NewsAFPVolkswagen lifts 2017 forecast
Volkswagen's results in 2016 were sapped by the fallout from a diesel emissions scandal
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Prince William tells of dramas that will live with him forever as he prepares for final air ambulance shift
Prince William has spoken from the heart about serving as an air ambulance helicopter pilot ahead of his final shift today. As William hangs up his flight suit, he said he is "proud" to have served with such an incredible team of people, who save lives across the East Anglian region every day. Writing in the Eastern Daily Press, William said "As I arrive for work at East Anglian Air Ambulance this evening, my last shift with this incredible team, I wanted to say thank you to my colleagues, team mates and the people of East Anglia who I have been so proud to serve.
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Sky unveils plan to create 300 tech jobs as annual profits slip
Sky has announced plans to create hundreds of technology jobs as it reported a dip in full-year profits prompted by a spike in the cost of broadcasting live Premier League football. The home and mobile entertainment and communications company, which owns Sky News, announced a 6% fall in operating profit to £1.47bn for the year to 30 June. Sky plc said that revenue during the year had risen by 10% on a constant currency basis to £12.9bn as it continued to expand its range of products across the handful of countries in which it operates.
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Larry David is related to Bernie Sanders
When parallels were spotted between Larry David and Bernie Sanders' appearance and demeanour and people mused that the pair must be related, no-one thought to employ Occam's razor: they actually are. David recently took part in PBS' genealogy series Finding Your Roots and discovered a not-that-remote link to the Vermont senator and almost Democratic presidential nominee. "He's in the line... like a third cousin, or something," David revealed at a Television Critics Association panel for Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9 this week.
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La Clemenza di Tito, opera review: The emperor strikes back
The eponymous emperor in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito dispenses his clemency to forgive and save his lifelong friend Sesto, following the latter’s assassination attempt. Both Sesto’s motivation (the love of a woman, Vitellia) and Tito’s clemency are sometimes seen as dramaturgically problematic. Claus Guth’s new production attempts to account for both by interjecting filmed sequences of Tito and Sesto as boys, depicting friendship, betrayal and a child’s potential for cruelty and moral degradation.
NewsReutersUK pay settlements stick at 2 percent in June - XpertHR
Large British employers gave staff an average 2 percent annual pay rise in the three months to the end of June, unchanged since the end of 2016, a report from pay analysts XpertHR said on Thursday. "Despite elevated inflation levels and low unemployment, organisations' ability to pay, combined with economic uncertainty, are continuing to keep pay increases in check," said XpertHR analyst Sheila Atwood. XpertHR said there were few signs in its data that pay was likely to pick up soon, despite pressure on finance minister Philip Hammond to lift the 1 percent cap on public-sector pay awards that has been in place for several years.
NewsAFPAmazon pushes into SE Asia with Singapore launch
Prime Now's launch in Singapore marks Amazon's first foray into Southeast Asia, which is seen as the next battleground in the e-commerve industry
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The best scotch whiskies
Moreso than any rival drinks, Scotch inspires something of a manical devotion among its lovers: Robert Burns was one of these, devoting verse after verse to the stuff, declaring it his muse and inspiration. Below are ten of the finest drams available at a range of price points, offered in no particular order. Caol Ila have recently built a name for themselves as an Islay giant and this shows why: it’s an introduction into peaty whisky that won’t terrify those new to the party: the peat floats around the drink, adding a touch here and there, rather than dominating the dram.
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The 36 greatest celebrity photobombs of all time
Sometimes it's just not enough for a celeb to have their own moment on the red carpet – they seem to need to leap face-first into someone else's time to shine, too. Here are the most memorable times when famouses have gatecrashed a photo with glorious results – be they the public's or other stars' snaps. From Digital Spy
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10 things in tech you need to know today (FB, AMZN, GOOG, TWTR, SSNLF)
1. Facebook beat Wall Street's expectations in its second quarter earnings, with $9.32 billion (£7.09 billion) in revenue, driven mostly by mobile ads. The social network maintained a 17% year-on-year user growth, and said two thirds of its over 2 billion users visit the site every day. 4. Giant Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn announced its plans to build a factory in Wisconsin, US during a press conference with President Donald Trump at the White House. The company, which is behind the assembling of products like Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Xbox, among others, said that the move is part of a $10 billion (£7.6 billion) investment which will create no less than 3,000 new jobs. 5. Samsung Electronics reported its earning results for the latest quarter, posting a $9.9 billion (£7.5 billion) net profit and a strong 89% year-on-year growth. The $54.8 billion (£41.7 billion) revenue marks a 19.8% year-on-year increase, too, primarily driven by strong sales of semiconductors, display panels, and the firm's high-end smartphone, the Galaxy S8, which reportedly outsold its predecessor.
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Half of Everything in the Milky Way—Including Humans—Comes From Far Flung Galaxies
Up to half of the Milky Way is made up of matter that came from distant galaxies, having been ejected from its home during supernova explosions. Using supercomputer simulations, scientists were able to track how, over time, matter had been moved around the universe via a process called “intergalactic transfer.” The team, from Northwestern University, say their findings have important implications for galaxy evolution, providing an insight into how matter becomes distributed throughout the cosmos. In the study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers developed numerical simulations that produced 3D models of galaxies—showing how they changed from when they formed, just after the Big Bang, to present day.
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Labour softens position on Brexit with backing for single market membership
Senior Labour politicians have opened the door to supporting Britain remaining a member of the single market after Brexit in a dramatic shift in stance for the party. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow Brexit secretary told Labour supporters that all options should be considered to ensure Britain retained the benefits of the single market and customs union. The comments mark a significant change for the party, which said in its General Election manifesto it wanted to keep the “benefits of the single market” but did not back membership.
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The ick factor: Dutch project making bike lanes and bottles from used loo roll
At the Geestmerambacht wastewater treatment plant near Alkmaar in the Netherlands, a two-year pilot project is using an industrial sieve to sift 400kg of cellulose, the natural fibres found in loo roll, from toilet sludge each day. A portion is also exported to the UK, where Brunel University is working on technology to transform it into an energy source, bioplastic bottles and other products. The Dutch preference for luxury loo roll means the cellulose is of premium quality, says Carlijn Lahaye, managing director of CirTec, one of two companies behind the Cellvation project, which launched in June with help from an EU grant.
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Romania to pass vaccination law to deal with immunisation gaps
Romania needs to pass a vaccination law and overhaul medical services to prevent the spread of a measles outbreak that has already claimed 32 deaths, the most of any European country, the health ministry said late on Wednesday. Vaccination rules are being tightened across Europe, where a decline in immunisation has caused a spike in diseases such as measles, chicken pox and mumps, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
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Qatar 'financing and supporting terrorism', Egypt FM says
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry lashed out at Qatar, accusing the Gulf nation of directly supporting terrorism in Egypt, saying there was evidence of Doha "financing and providing safe heavens" to terrorists. He warned that there was no room for negotiation in the current crisis and that it was up to Qatar to meet the demands of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to once and for all cut ties with terrorism and extremism.
NewsReutersChina's exiled tycoon Guo 'fabricated' corruption claims - Xinhua
China's Xinhua news agency accused fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui of using "fabricated and distorted information to mislead the public", the latest salvo in a campaign to discredit the billionaire who has made accusations of Communist Party corruption. Central to Guo's claims over recent months has been that a man named Yao Qing used his status as a nephew of a senior Communist Party official to amass a business empire worth tens of billions of dollars. In an online video stream last month, Guo produced a corporate tree diagram which he said showed companies linked to Yao, including GI Technologies (Beijing) Co. Xinhua interviewed Yao, who is listed in corporate records as general manager of GI Technologies.
NewsAFPHistorians race to preserve dying memories of Partition
Sitting in her Karachi home, Jamshed Jahan Ara looks straight into the camera as she explains in a trembling voice how her family fled India during Partition in 1947.
