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to go into a winter with no treatment or vaccine, and the sad thing is it'll be our poorest communities that are most exposed. "we have got august to fix this test-and-trace system… and if we haven't then i think there is a real possibility that we will have to close the pubs." he repeated calls for government to listen more to regional authorities, urging ministers to give councils extra funds to do more contact tracing locally, including for "people who can knock on doors and do a better job than this national call centre system". earlier this week, blackburn's public health director said the national system was "not fast enough", and authorities in the town said they were "already seeing benefits" after launching a tracing system where council staff used local knowledge. why not follow bbc north west on facebook, twitter and instagram? you can also send story ideas
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few bands make great music in their third decade together, but mogwai continues the particularly strong form they've been in since 2013's les revenants on their ninth studio album, every country's sun. it's built, as ever, on the scots' familiar instrumental tropes. sometimes the album is pensive or disturbing. elsewhere, it's hymnal and graceful (coolverine), or brutal (1,000 foot face). it's not so much as quiet-then-loud as the sound of transcendental near-silence gradually erupting into a sonic nuclear meltdown . however, their signature sound is constantly and slightly evolving, as they curate their canon-like sculptors, for ever chipping away to perfect the smallest detail. synthesiser rhythms mingle with the trademark guitars. party in the dark, the most outright pop song of mogwai's career, features rarely heard stuart braithwaite vocals: the song blasts a new order-like bassline through a psychedelic haze to reach a euphoric chorus ("hungry for a peace of
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months of his sentence. the mothers were introduced to each other through restorative justice - a process in which victims of crime can meet those who committed the offence against them. although ms roberts did not want to meet connor, it was suggested that by meeting his mother they would be able to share and understand each other's stories. kerry roberts said she and daughter leah had the "best relationship" it gave ms kirkwood the opportunity to explain how she had been struggling for years to get help for connor. he had become involved in county lines gangs, which target vulnerable teenagers and use them to supply drugs. ms roberts said: "people will look at us and think it's an unlikely friendship. "people will see us as two separate things but we are both grieving. they are both our children." connor kirkwood and mitchell southern both admitted supplying ecstasy and
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people who've lost their jobs in retail and hospitality are being urged to consider becoming carers during the coronavirus outbreak. social care wales said there were "urgent shortages" of care workers to help elderly, children and vulnerable people during the pandemic. there are already over 400 jobs advertised on a new website, aimed at attracting people out of work due to bars, pubs, shops and leisure centres being shut down. chief executive sue evans said carers were a "lifeline for communities" during the pandemic and many people had transferable skills to be able to work in the sector. "we need more people with the right skills to help, right now," she said.
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had "good and bad days" but that he had been transformed in the last few weeks. "he's up and about, running around - he's the zac we used to know, so full of energy again. "he's cancer free, and we are praying it will stay that way."
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welcome to best of late night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. what do you think of it? what else are you interested in? let us know:
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shipping company clarksons is bracing for a tranche of private data to be released, after refusing to pay a ransom to a hacker who staged a "criminal attack" on its computer systems. in a statement to the stock market, the world's largest shipbroker said it was working with specialist police and contacting customers who may have been affected after a "cybersecurity incident". "as soon as it was discovered, clarksons took immediate steps to respond to and manage the incident," the company said. "our initial investigations have shown the unauthorised access was gained via a single and isolated user account which has now been disabled." "today, the person or persons behind the incident may release some data." shares in clarksons fell by more than 2% after the announcement, despite the company's insistence that the hack would not affect its ability to do business. the shipbroker arranges charter ships to transport goods,
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olympics always give you a bit of the yips," he admitted. however, while ryding is 31, he insists he is good enough to come back in beijing four years' time and win a medal having finished 17th in sochi in 2014. "i came to skiing really late so i'm still warming up," he said. "i'm more than motivated to keep going – obviously a little tired, stressful this job, but more than motivated to keep going and keep improving. myhrer is 35 and the last winner, mario matt, was also 35 and at the next olympics i'm 35 so i'll try to keep that trend going." ryding also predicted that britain could become a top skiing nation in eight years – provided there was extra investment in the sport. "we've got to keep the structure and support," he said. "it's not easy, you've got to have the skills and in
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new york state health officials are investigating about 100 cases of a rare and dangerous inflammatory syndrome that afflicts children and appears to be connected to the coronavirus, gov. andrew m. cuomo said on tuesday.
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at the time, and i apologise, i didn't mean to upset the players in doing that. there are things that, looking back, i maybe should have said or done but ultimately i'm just happy we are clear about the truth and i had no agenda to lie and no interest in lying. "i didn't want this to be a public episode. i tried to avoid it as much as i could. one of the reasons i tried to settle in the first place was to avoid it being public and getting players involved." sampson was sacked by the fa less than 24 hours after his last game in charge for "inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour" during his previous job at bristol academy. his departure was a surprise to the players, and came at a time when new evidence was presented to the independent barrister who was investigating aluko's racial discrimination claims
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our bit in containing it. but to know that we might be painted as self-serving, ski-happy defectors if we did stings as much as the big bill. "the money is harsh, but the backlash is worse," said one proud kiwi, 20 years in london. instead of bailing on "the team" it feels more like we've been booted off.
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foundation said. this was the largest quarter-on-quarter rise among this age group since 1992. "the rise in youth unemployment is not just about those losing their jobs, but also about young people not finding work in the first place," the foundation added. "those who left education just before or during the crisis - the so-called class of 2020 - have faced particular difficulties, with unemployment rising fastest among those who recently left education. "having a degree has not protected recent graduates from this effect." the resolution foundation wants the kickstart scheme to protect young people from the impact of long-term unemployment but here too, there is a big disparity between ethnic groups. by the end of last year, unemployment among young black graduates had risen to 34%, up from 22% before the pandemic. that was a rate almost three times that of young white graduates during the same period (13%).
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according to russian news outlets, the syrian government has contracted with private russian companies that have kremlin connections to carry out security operations for the assad regime in syria in exchange for a share of oil, gas and mineral production in territory won back from rebels. mercenaries and private contractors are nothing new in middle eastern conflicts, unfortunately, but sending private security services to fight for spoils on foreign land adds an insidious dimension to an already ugly conflict.
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the us geological survey. she used plates taken at the palomar schmidt telescope, working with a stereoscope to compare plates taken on different nights to look for moving objects, asteroids or comets. in 1989 she became an astronomy research professor at northern arizona university. eight years later, while on a trip investigating meteoritic craters in australia, she and gene were involved in a car crash. gene died instantly and carolyn suffered severe injuries. "without gene, i would never have known the excitement of planetary science," she wrote in an autobiographical essay. "without me, he often said, his search for asteroids and comets, and then the australian cratering work, would never have been attempted. together, we could do more than either of us alone." she is survived by her children, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. • carolyn jean spellmann shoemaker, comet and asteroid hunter, born 24 june 1929; died 13 august
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tasmania in the 1820s, as depicted in "the nightingale," is a ladder of cruelty. nearly every human relationship is defined by domination and subjugation, a system of absolute violence organized under the banner of civilization and the british flag. in the rough settlement where the movie begins, british soldiers rule over convicts who have been "transported" from england and ireland. the soldiers, abused and humiliated by their superior officers, are also engaged in a brutal war of conquest with the indigenous tasmanians, referred to as "the blacks."
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washington — millions of americans lost their unemployment coverage on saturday as president trump resisted signing a sweeping $900 billion aid package until lawmakers more than tripled the size of relief checks, putting the fate of the measure in limbo.
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turns and says in a loud stage whisper, so loud the entire cast and camera crew can hear: "and you have the best legs since tina turner." that was the last thing i expected to hear from prince charles. he took me completely by surprise – and i'm never taken by surprise. i turned into a giggling idiot. "he-he-he-he-he," i simpered. he got one over on me. i've met prince andrew, prince edward and princess anne. but prince charles… he was the one who caught me off-guard. legends live tour 2017 featuring suzi quatro, david essex, the osmonds and hot chocolate starts in october (legendslive.org)
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a senior anz executive has admitted a $220,000 loan given to a couple for a gelato franchise was not done with the care and diligence expected of banks. and westpac has defended its decision to lend money to a victorian woman and her business partner for a pie face franchise that quickly failed. the banking royal commission has shifted its focus this week to small business lending, with concerns raised about the major banks' willingness to lend to small businesspeople with sometimes problematic business plans. anz's kate gibson, previously in charge of small business but now head of home lending at the bank, was grilled over a decision to loan $220,000 to a couple in 2014 to set up the first australian outlet of a new zealand gelato chain, which ultimately failed, largely based on a business plan filled with pages of "clip-art" ice cream pictures and unrealistic financial forecasts.
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the first time richard gere appeared in a television series it was 1976 and the then little-known actor was in a single episode of the new york crime drama kojak, playing a crook holding up a liquor store. gere has since gone on to rather more illustrious parts, but now the hollywood star is taking on his first major small-screen role in an eagerly awaited bbc two drama. tom rob smith, the writer of motherfatherson, which starts next month, embarked on "a long wooing process" with gere, eventually convincing him to take the part by assuring him it would be like performing on stage. "the question i asked was: when has richard gere recently had the chance to do a big two-page monologue?" smith told the observer. "i knew richard had done theatre early on in his career, but he doesn't do it now because of the length of the
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excruciating cummings detail. he described the deliberate use of misinformation targeted at unknown individuals in an election operation the scale of which had never been seen before. he deployed more than a billion facebook ads, he says. at a cost of pennies per view. he doesn't talk about this now, of course. and though the intelligence committee noted media companies "hold the key and yet are failing to play their part", it also says "dcms informed us that [redacted]". the fact is that we now know how the platform was systematically abused by the leave campaigns. we know that loopholes in our laws were deliberately exploited. and we know that these actions were proved to be illegal and "punished" by "regulators" whose "regulations" have been exposed to be not worth the paper they are written on. will facebook be used to subvert the 2020 us presidential election? yes. will facebook
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msnbc has dominated ratings for this year's democratic national convention, and its streak continued on wednesday as it attracted 6.3 million viewers for a starry night that featured speeches by senator kamala harris and former president barack obama.
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added: "by the way, there are lots of men who are also occupied with home schooling, not only mothers. but ... i'm sure if we add up all the hours at the end of this it will be women who will have been more heavily burdened." women have criticised that questions of how to ease up on lockdowns have focused on economic considerations rather than childcare. "far more effort has been made debating when the beer gardens, the car showrooms and the bundesliga matches can resume, than whether kindergartens can open," said suzanne, a 41-year-old accountant and mother of two from hamburg. in ireland, where social and economic changes of recent decades have transformed the lives of many women, research carried out for the irish legislature, the oireachtas, has concluded that women have less time to carry out paid work from home compared with men due to the closure of
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would affect the rollout of the vaccine in the uk. "we are working with international partners to understand the impact of this incident affecting the eu's medicine regulator, but there is currently no evidence to suggest that the uk's medicine regulator has been affected," it said.
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one example of the incentives, a mile-and-a-half stretch of road linking a new estate, also near trowbridge, was being funded with £14.25m of public money. according to the research, £8.75m from the government's local development fund and £5.5m from the infrastructure marginal viability fund are helping pay for improvements to the a350, leading to the town's ashton park development of 2,700 homes. this will be topped up by the developer contributing £11.5m, a total of £25.75m for the new single carriageway and new roundabouts to provide access to the homes. the a350 extension is one of example of how the unintended consequences of government housing targets and programmes are encouraging developments reliant on motor transport, with access and parking for cars trumping green space and footpaths, according to tnh. researchers visited 20 housing developments around the country, and some in the netherlands, trying out public transport, cycling and walking routes,
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there were many poignant moments watching powderfinger streaming their first show in a decade on saturday night, but the biggest one was seeing bassist john collins playing (like all the band members, in isolation) to an empty fortitude music hall, one of two venues he part-owns in brisbane. the grand 3,300-capacity room opened less than a year ago, and the empty space served as a symbol of what we have lost, what we are missing and what was at stake. live music is a billion-dollar industry in australia, yet the rooms that host it run on the smell of an oily rag and are in constant danger of being run out of town by governments and developers (brisbane is fortunate in that both fortitude music hall and the triffid were built and are co-owned by one of those developers, scott hutchinson, a bona fide music tragic). covid-19 lockdowns will drive
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arisen if the float was off centre in the device. "at a high level, if people want to call it jiggling around, i suppose they can," patrick crouse, hubble's operations project manager, told the washington post. "but we were trying to do very particular activities we thought would clear the problem. it certainly wasn't as simple as turning it off and turning it back on." the next day further jiggling of the telescope and twiddling of switches was performed: the issue now appears to be resolved. the space agency said: "the hubble operations team plans to execute a series of tests to evaluate the performance of the gyro under conditions similar to those encountered during routine science observations, including moving to targets, locking on to a target, and performing precision pointing. after these engineering tests have been completed, hubble is expected to soon return to normal science operations." jessie christiansen
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a private detective in chile, once an interpol agent, places a newspaper ad seeking men between the ages of 80 and 90. a good number of gents come to his office. they're all surprised and delighted to feel needed, although only one can get the gig.
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his every move has been chronicled and touted on social media. and on tuesday, the night finally came for 24-year-old igor shesterkin to make his much anticipated debut in goal for the rangers. henrik lundqvist, 37, who has more wins than any other goalie as a ranger, was on the bench, possibly a first step toward a changing of the guard.
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a family, not a commune," she wrote in the book. though the band added a woman to their ranks, the supremely talented christine mcvie (wife of bassist john mcvie), she was considered by them to be "one of the guys". the album they recorded took its name from the place where they lived, kiln house. for its sessions, boyd wrote all of the lyrics for the song purple dancer, and some of them for jewel eyed judy. but she wasn't given any credit. "their manager wanted his band to be ‘the guys'," boyd said. "to have mick's wife have credit, he wouldn't want that. so, he gave it to mick." to promote the album, the band went on a long tour of america, leaving boyd alone when she gave birth to their first child. over the next few years, her loneliness ballooned, while fleetwood's ambition exploded. even when the couple
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the group a foreign terrorist organisation in 2004. "his mother did not want him to be on his own," said the family friend, a university student in chester. "in those days he was just a normal teenager, going to the park with us for a drink. he was a big man utd fan." however, two years ago abedi – whose brothers, ismail and hashem and father, ramadan, have also been arrested – began to change and distanced himself from manchester's libyan community. nassrat's brother, who condemned the bombing and said abedi must have been radicalised by something he saw on one of his trips to libya, said: "he started having animosity towards the whole libyan community, accusing us of not being muslims because we drank alcohol. he separated himself off. a lot of us thought it was a phase. "when i heard he had done the bombing, it was like
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[update: we asked kylie jenner about this bit of drama. here's what she had to say.]
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state-based renewable energy targets are becoming essential drivers of australia's carbon reduction framework and, based on current policy settings, will be vital for australia to meet its 2030 emissions targets, according to a report by the energy consultancy reputex. the finding comes amid attacks on state-based renewable energy targets by the prime minister, malcolm turnbull, and his ministers, who have called for them to be scrapped. according to modelling by reputex, since the federal government has excluded the electricity sector from the so-called "safeguard mechanism" and ruled out any sort of carbon trading, state and federal rets are the only policy tool left to shift the sector away from fossil fuels. the government has released projections showing that under current policies emissions would continue to rise to 2020 and 2030, leaving no chance for australia to meet its 2030 targets. renewable energy targets in the australian capital territory, queensland, south
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bernie sanders said he would return to the political fray after suffering a heart attack democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders underwent emergency surgery after suffering a heart attack, his campaign has confirmed. the senator was taken to hospital on tuesday after complaining of chest pain at a campaign event in nevada. doctors operated on mr sanders, 78, to remove a blockage in one of his arteries. mr sanders said he was feeling "great" after leaving hospital on friday. his doctors said "two stents were placed in a blocked coronary artery in a timely fashion". a stent is a small mesh tube used to help keep arteries open. receiving stents is "a minimally invasive procedure", typically with a short recovery time, the us national heart, lung and blood institute says. the doctors, arturo marchand and arjun gururaj, said mr sanders's other arteries were "normal". mr sanders would become the oldest ever
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are other medical staff who suffered burns, not only the doctor on duty," mr tataru said, adding that he was heading to piatra neamt following the incident at the hospital on saturday evening. eight of the victims were reportedly killed in the room where the fire broke out on the second floor, and two others in a room next to it. all were said have been receiving treatment for coronavirus. many in the ward were on ventilators. the fire was believed to have spread quickly after it was fed oxygen by the supplies used to intubate patients, the health ministry said. romania has reported more than 350,000 cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, and 8,813 deaths. on friday, the country recorded 9,489 new daily covid cases, 174 deaths and 1,149 patients in intensive care.
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coptic orthodox countries it is downgraded in relation to the far more theologically potent celebration of easter, when the really big show took place: anyone can be born; it takes a living god to die and be reborn.) as it happens, i was, at the time, the child star of an avant-garde theatre in town (the only avant-garde theatre in philadelphia, then and now) – the shirley temple of a company devoted to the brechtian theatre of alienation and, even more, the grotowksian theatre of cruelty. under the direction of the avant-gardist andre gregory – who remains a friend all these years later – the particular production that year was of a play called beclch, by a writer named rochelle owens. beclch, i realise now, was meant to be a sort of anticolonial piece about a white ruler, the eponymous heroine, and her abuse of the local people, openly called
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the groups that advertisers are able to target and make it easier to direct ads using alternative criteria (such as interests). yet, eventually, it will become clear that at its core, targeted advertising enables discrimination. once this becomes widely acknowledged, then the system will have to change, will have to become less discriminatory and less opaque and consequently – from ad tech's perspective – will become less effective. then, who knows, many sites may need to search for alternative methods of funding and perhaps – perhaps – we will find a better and healthier way to fund the digital economy. one can but hope. • democracy hacked: political turmoil and information warfare in the digital age by martin moore is published by oneworld (£16.99). to order a copy for £16.41 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. free uk p&p over £10, online orders only. phone orders min p&p
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cape town — president cyril ramaphosa of south africa announced the makeup of his first cabinet on monday night, appointing well-respected officials to key positions but naming as his deputy a provincial power broker with a history of poor management.
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tokyo — there can be a grim randomness to a bmx race, even at the olympics. no matter how well a cyclist rides, a crash, a bump or even a small skid can kill the chance for a medal.
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network. watching it now, you think, "there's just so much location work on this movie!" cinema itself was in its infancy and yet they're shooting on the london underground. and at the same time, silent movies all around the world were creating shots that would then be ripped off for ever. with last night in soho i tried to break the mould, do things that you shouldn't be doing, but in the days of silent cinema people justdidn't know what they couldn't do. * * * 2 went the day well? alberto cavalcanti, 1942 cavalcanti's work on dead of night and they made me a fugitive had really struck me, but strangely i hadn't seen went the day well? before i made hot fuzz, despite the fact that it's a rural semi-action film (about an english village taken over by german paratroopers) in which thora hird wields a machine gun.
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family. within a couple of years, the garden regular had become a countryside rarity. now the birds were back, filling the lane with song. my binoculars found the treetop finch, privet green, the eye facing me blackened as if it had been in a fight. its beak was open. i no longer heard the clanking of armour or the clatter of chariot wheels but the shout of a greenfinch: "chop-chop-chop".
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late april – sofer has been discussing the practicalities of direct flights with the national airline, el al. he said the carrier, which had trial flights to melbourne planned before the pandemic, had always considered australian destinations potentially profitable, but less so than european and american routes. but with nowhere else to fly, australia now made economic sense. "[officials in israel] are now looking at giving a permit to those from better performing countries that they won't need to isolate in israel ... this is definitely the direction we're talking about," sofer said. he said it was "not a pipe dream" for the arrangement to be in place by december, and noted australia would make "a very attractive destination at that time for israelis as we go into our winter and you go into your summer. they'll come and spend." sofer said he hoped the arrangement would also lead to
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anna sorokin, the fake heiress accused of being a society scammer, wore a little black dress to state supreme court in manhattan on thursday evening as she was found guilty of second-degree grand larceny, theft of services, and one count of attempted grand larceny. did she have an inkling of what was going to happen? perhaps.
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in the sahel, where there has in recent months been a "massive spike" in violence. other parts of the country are becoming more dangerous, with reports of attacks in the south-west. some warn that the country's southern neighbours could also be at risk. the humanitarian emergency is unprecedented, with 1.2 million people needing aid. across the country, more than 100,000 people have fled, and those who stayed feared they would be killed, although not necessarily by the armed groups. the military's reaction to losing control of parts of the country for the first time since independence has been to crack down hard on those it considers "terrorists", particularly targeting fulani herders, according to activists. "we know that those paying the highest price are herders," said boubakary diallo of the rugga national union, a fulani rights and education group. human rights watch has documented 40 killings by armed islamist groups in
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journalist fail to discharge the basic duty of a responsible member of society to report an impending crime and avert potential danger and criminal damage, his presence both encouraged and rewarded the perpetrators." in response, the sun said it "condemns fully" the attack on mr woodward's home and that it was "happy to cooperate fully with any police inquiry". it added that it "vigorously" defended its right to report and that the article "made it clear that the behaviour was criminal and unacceptable". the attack on mr woodward's house in cheshire saw a flare thrown and a group chanting that he was "going to die". mr woodward and his family were not at home at the time. the newspaper said it "accurately reported the events that unfolded" and that it "supports wholeheartedly the editors' code of conduct and will defend the complaint to ipso". the bbc is not responsible for
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that won't be denied. the only thing that could deny is her body," said czech-american navratilova, who won 18 major singles titles. "she is almost like a finished product when she is just getting started." british legend wade, the last british woman to win a grand slam singles title, agrees. "no question - i'm sure she will win majors," wade said. "but she will be sharing them with a handful who will be dominating the game." murray, who won his first major aged 25 at the 2012 us open, knows raducanu's ability well - as he has practised with her at the national tennis centre in roehampton, while her former coach sears is his father-in-law. "her attitude is fantastic, she trains hard, she practises well and i've not heard anyone around say a bad word about her," said the scot. the mature, engaging teenager ready to carry the mantle in
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woman caught in the madonna-whore dichotomy, try to be neither (good luck with that) hillary clinton's approval rating hit an all-time high at the start of the impeachment process, when she was perceived to be performing the ultimate duty of a wife: loyalty. between 1992 and the end of her husband's presidency, her popularity inversely tracked her political activity. trying to reform healthcare, she was distrusted; talking about biscuits, she was better loved. even decades later, her public standing would deteriorate whenever she tried to build an identity separate to that of "wife". in a sense, she is trapped in the aspic of the last century's spousal model, while the world has moved on. if anything, the attacks on her are more severe now than they were in the 90s. this seems to me to be idiosyncratic to the us. in the mid‑00s, i was talking to my cousin, who
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no corrections appeared in print on wednesday, december 26, 2018.
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the slightly fancy dressing this one is a riff on your classic french vinaigrette. it's a little tangy and a little bit sour. it works well with bitter leafy greens, including rocket, endive and witlof. this is a good one if you're also going down the route of salad for dinner and having a tuna nicoise, as the dressing is non-offensive and works well with fish, green beans, eggs and potatoes. 1 lemon, juiced 2 tbsp diijon mustard 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil ½ tbsp apple cider vinegar salt and pepper, to taste whisk ingredients together or shake in a jar. season with salt and pepper to taste. the creamy, leftovers dressing often the greatest kitchen victories are those when you open the fridge and declare "there's nothing to cook" and then using your end-of-week dregs miraculously whip together an impressive anything-goes dish. for me, the key ingredients for experiencing
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to tory grandees after accepting a dare. over dinner hosted by the late alan clark at his medieval saltwood castle in kent, mr davis agreed to walk along the "black" route, the crumbling ramparts overlooking the ruins of a chapel. "[he] did the 'black' route without turning a hair, then retraced his footsteps, hands in pockets - first time that's ever been done!" clark wrote in his diary. mr davis' training in the sas (reserve) regiment - which helped fund his way through university - had paid off. nonchalantly completing the black route cemented mr davis' reputation among tories as a fearless hard man. but it also illustrated another character trait that gives an insight into his approach to the brexit negotiations. mr davis is prepared to take risks but never in a reckless way, and only after a careful calculation of all the options in front of him. mr
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for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. you may want to read twitter's cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. to view this content choose ‘accept and continue'. the bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites. gillian taylforth, who plays kathy beale, said she was "deeply saddened" and had "so many happy memories of working with leslie". "he was always great fun and we shared many laughs," she wrote, adding that the christmas episodes in which grantham appeared "will always be part of eastenders history". grantham rose to fame when he was cast as the landlord of the queen vic, the east london public house around which the action in eastenders revolves. more than 30 million viewers tuned in to watch a christmas day episode in 1986, in which his character handed divorce papers to angie.
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royal family. what's more, she is a self-confessed feminist, a high-profile member of the #metoo generation. so the arrival of meghan markle marks a huge change for what is still a clearly traditional and, some would say, pretty hidebound institution. there has been talk of her modernising - or even saving - the monarchy. the royal family continuously needs to renew itself, and it has proved pretty adept at that. ms markle is certainly dragging them into the instagram age, but just how much she can change it we will have to wait and see. she has said previously: "i never wanted to be a lady who lunches, i always wanted to be a lady who works." well, the royal role is lunches. and teas. and opening hospitals and attending charity functions. and looking good, and nodding a lot, and not saying much beyond asking what people do and commenting
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he lives and breathes the culture here and everyone at the club is delighted to have him and mike phelan back. "we are confident they will unite the players and the fans as we head into the second half of the season." united confirmed the return of solskjaer, who started his coaching career as the reserve team manager at old trafford, on wednesday morning. the club appeared to inadvertently announce his arrival 12 hours earlier, when a video featuring solskjaer scoring the winner in the champions league final against bayern munich in 1999 was briefly on their official website. it led to norway's prime minister erna solberg welcomed solskjaer's appointment on social media, writing: "great day for norwegian football. good luck keeping control of the red devils." she later deleted the tweet. molde's 2018 season has finished for the winter and does not restart until march. united's statement announcing solskjaer's
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on ypres's stage was the playing of the piper's lament. it was a piece of music simply entitled the bloody fields of flanders.
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mum's five siblings saw to that. and politics ran, and still runs, deep in my family. the politics of the 1954 australian labor party split (one uncle, my mother's favourite brother, was a federal mp who went with the dlp – a traitor in the eyes of dad, a life-long alp man, and one or two of the other siblings) defined these relationships including my parents' testy marriage. politics and the internals of the collingwood football club; no less life-or-death political chicanery there than in the alp. they were the things worth arguing for and about. and by 7pm on christmas night, amid the shavings of the ham and over the stripped carcass of the turkey, their skins awash with victoria bitter, they went at it. i recall punch-ups at a couple of those events involving older cousins and the uncles, my mother once so distraught at the notion that
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planning to travel abroad this year?
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fox sports pushing for as close to the full schedule as possible while nine, which has stated previously it does not want the season to go ahead, is advocating for a shortened season so as not to overlap with cricket's t20 world cup, to which nine has broadcast rights. the cancellation of the latter would no doubt shift nine's position. one senior club official believes a 20-round competition that would play into november is the most likely scenario. what will the competition look like? some certainties have been announced. competition points from the opening two rounds will remain. the premiership structure will not change to a conference system as was proposed. there will be no back-to-back games at the same venue for the foreseeable future. all matches are likely to be played at sydney venues anz stadium and bankwest stadium to start the season. there will be no crowds to
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uk brands and retailers have signed up to the uk plastics pact, committing them to remove by 2025 all packaging that cannot be recycled. several have introduced in-store recycling collections. sainsbury's, the uk's second largest supermarket, collects and recycles carrier bags and some other soft plastic packaging, such as the bags that apples and pears are sold in. items can be handed to home delivery drivers or taken into stores. sainsbury's is also trialling the collection in some stores of polypropylene film and plastic, typically used to wrap salad, frozen food and cakes. waitrose said it also accepted carrier bags and plastic films, during deliveries and in-store and was currently planning a trial to expand the flexible plastics it accepts. morrisons said it was reducing plastic use overall and already had in-store recycling bins to collect plastic bags, films and wraps. the co-op has trialled collection at 50 of its
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he scored a memorable century. it's not often that such fairytale endings happen in top-level sport. when he was out for 147, i made sure i was right by the exit off the pitch as he waved his bat to the crowd, every one of whom was on their feet applauding. i love this background at the oval, there is something quite unique and timeless about it. james anderson's record wicket, the oval – 11 september 140mm lens 1/1600 f5.6 iso 1600 it was quite amazing that, following the day after cook's final test innings, the end of this test match went perfectly to script: james anderson taking the final wicket of the match, giving england the victory, but at the same time becoming the highest test match wicket-taking fast bowler. before play started that day, i mounted a camera on a part of the pavilion which gave me a
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matches like this are what the premier league does best, fast-paced blockbusters with breathtaking attacking and thigh-slapping clangers. leicester and, especially, liverpool are among the leading exponents of an intoxicating genre. jürgen klopp's men scored three splendid goals here but still needed simon mignolet to save a late penalty from jamie vardy to secure a much-needed win. mignolet, almost inevitably, had conceded the penalty himself, rushing off his line in an attempt to intercept the ball, which he touched before clattering into vardy. the goalkeeper also bore some blame for earlier goals by vardy and shinji okazaki, even if he was not helped on those occasions by questionable refereeing. in the end, however, liverpool banked three points because their vibrancy going forward more than offset their problems at the rear, earning reward in the form of goals by mohamed salah, philippe coutinho and jordan henderson. it would be wrong to
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funeral. "i would say to cairney and jones - if you have a scrap of decency you will give the answers to the questions that margaret's family deserve. "i am willing to meet either of them so that they can tell me in order to provide some kind of comfort to her family and allow them to put her to rest finally." the bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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care in the world. it is not fair, it is not right. "i am not picking on him as a young man, he deserved his victory. amateurs should not be allowed in professional tournaments, the end. this is our livelihood. this is how i put food on the table. this is how i earn money. since turning professional at 15, i have earned the right to call myself a professional snooker player. he hasn't done that. he shouldn't be on the table." si had earlier missed a golden chance himself to wrap up what would have been a comfortable 6-1 win after clawing back three snookers required only to then miss the blue with victory seemingly in sight. murphy, world champion in 2005, continued his momentum to mount a fine recovery with breaks of 60, 87 and 85 to fight back and level the match in york at 5-5. the
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prodded at the ampersand tangled in its nest, the curly brackets aiming their bows in opposite directions. switch on the anglepoise lamp; outside the window it's carbon-paper dark. there's ribbonsmudge on your fingers and a new sheet of foolscap rolled into place on the platen. this week, in a new, previously unpublished poem, matthew francis fulfils the performative declaration of the opening stanza: he fetches the smith corona, "unclasp(s) its blue plastic shell" and with judicious detail, precise but not overdone, gives us the look, function and feel of it. if you've ever used a typewriter, you'll remember at once how it was. if you never have, you might marvel at the slightly gnarled complexity, and be rather glad you missed out. though the typewriter's invention was commercially driven, francis's observation of its "baby-grand workings" may suggest lofty solo aspiration, creation rather than copying. it's also a suggestive mechanical analogy.
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attorney general william p. barr and democrats on the house judiciary committee tensely confronted each other over the federal response to the nationwide protests after the killing of george floyd in police custody and the russia investigation.
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for many americans, wine is something to be studied rather than felt.
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weekend – as people went out for the day or returned home from a longer stint away. the aa reported slow-moving traffic on the a329 as people left the reading festival, which ended on sunday, and on the a429 due to the wellesbourne airfield market. in west london, extensive road closures were in place for the last day of the notting hill carnival, with traffic slow moving in the vicinity of edgware road, holland park avenue, scrubs lane, harrow road, notting hill gate and bayswater road. roads closures in place from harrow road in the north, notting hill gate in the south, north pole road in the west and queensway in the east were scheduled to remain in place until about 5am on tuesday. full updates are available on tfl's website.
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as nearby lewisham, in decreasing speed limits from 30mph (48kph) to 20mph (32 kph). penge and lewisham west mp ellie reeves called for a debate in parliament about reducing speed limits following the crash. she told the local democracy reporting service that "we need to do all that we can to make our roads as safe as possible, particularly in residential areas". nicole newman was declared dead at the scene of the crash however, bromley councillor william huntington-thresher, said there was no evidence lower limits were the answer to road safety. the executive member for the environment said "a sustained focus on road safety and driver education" was the answer. the driver stopped and was taken to hospital, but was later discharged the bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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the steady pressure was disrupted by a chain of events in both countries, paving the way for isis to return. the initial us withdrawal from syria caused its allies on the ground, the kurdish-dominated forces, to seek the help of russia and the regime in damascus to prevent turkey from taking over. even after the us reversed its decision to withdraw, part of the third of syria previously controlled by the international coalition became shared with the russians. the damage was already done, as the international mandate against isis shrank in both territory and influence. in iraq, too, mass protests in iraq in october triggered several events and raised the political temperature in the country. the protests in central and southern iraq forced the government to resign and led to political stagnation that lasted until two weeks ago, when political parties agreed on a new prime minister, mustafa al-kadhimi. the
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the dutch artist jacqueline de jong, 82, lives alone with her cat, shosha, in a vertiginous central amsterdam townhouse that she bought with her late husband, tom weyland, in 1992. just before the pandemic, de jong installed an elevator to ease her climb to the attic, where she keeps a painting studio tucked under the eaves. going up and down in that lift — a "little prison," she says — got her thinking about the tension between movement and confinement, a theme already on her mind as she watched the news, horrified by the unfolding refugee crises in idlib, syria, and the mediterranean. it's a testament to de jong's eclectic sensibility that she braided those thoughts together in a new body of work: "border-line," a series of oil-stick paintings that mash up news imagery of the global migrant crisis — the rescue boat sea watch 4, huddled masses on rafts,
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early december. more than 500,000 people in the uk have now been given their first dose of the vaccine. the vaccine has also been approved by the us regulator, the fda, and the european medicines agency for use in the eu. at a news conference in germany, ugur sahin, chief executive of biontech, said "scientifically, it is highly likely that [the] immune response by this vaccine also can deal with the new virus variant". and he added that the company had the technology to refine its vaccine very quickly if it needed to. "the beauty of the messenger rna technology is that we can directly start to engineer a vaccine which completely mimics this new mutation - we could be able to provide a new vaccine technically within six weeks, so that means a vaccine which contains this information," mr sahin said. he confirmed that he didn't know "at the
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the australian education union has criticised a proposal to reintroduce religious education to the victorian curriculum, saying instruction should take place outside school hours. the state opposition leader, matthew guy, announced the plan at an australian christian lobby election forum on saturday where he spoke alongside the rev peter hastie, the father of federal conservative liberal mp andrew hastie. the andrews government removed religious instruction from the state curriculum in 2015 in favour of a program on respectful relationships, which is intended to help recognise and prevent family violence. the lessons also focus on global cultures and faiths and promote respect for diversity. schools are still able to provide 30-minute religious instruction classes, which are usually delivered by a volunteer, but the classes have to be outside regular classroom hours on an opt-in – rather than opt-out – model. aeu's victoria president, meredith peace, said religious instruction had no place
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reaching and sourcing products from suppliers in faraway places, and doing this all from the comfort of their homes or from spaces that cost a helluva lot less than rent on seventh avenue. "amazon is the first partner that offers small businesses a legitimate way to compete with the big retailers – which is why they are scared, and why they are sounding the alarm that it's ‘killing retail'," jerry kozak, the owner of ann arbor t-shirt company and an amazon merchant, told me. "amazon is changing retail by offering more products from more merchants, at greater convenience – and people are voting with their wallets." kozak, who employs 75 people at his $20m a year business, isn't alone in his support of the online platform. many other business owners i know agree with him. and by the way, amazon isn't the only game in town. e-commerce applications that allow
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rarely is there a single conversation that dominates the college campuses of america, a back-and-forth that extends from palo alto, calif., to winston-salem, n.c., and from new haven, conn., to los angeles.
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little simz has a reputation as a leading woman in british rap and an mc whose wordplay rivals that of more famous faces. stormzy and kendrick lamar have each hailed her talent. but on this opening show of a uk and ireland tour, she seems to care less about weighty labels and more about simply enjoying herself. many of her peers in rap tend to go big, with entourages for their stage shows complete with hype men finishing off each of the main star's bars to help them stay on point, but here it's pared down to just simz, her five-piece band and her incredible stamina: her set is nearly 90 minutes, deftly mixing old and newer material. at one point she freestyles a cappella, showing off vocals honed by years of such freestyling. highlights include the trappy might bang, might not, which is expertly mixed into venom, and her
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"a kamikaze brexit", adding that there was "nothing in brexit for working people". the clps that have submitted the motion for debate at conference include corbyn's islington north clp. local member valerie bossman-quarshie, who submitted the motion, said she had rejoined the party because of corbyn, but urged him to back a second referendum. "as long as the tories are in government this is the only way to stop their brexit deal doing more harm to ordinary people's lives," she said. momentum has thus far given its full backing to corbyn's brexit policy but may be forced to hold its own vote on its position after a petition organised by an activist, alena ivanova. the petition has so far half the 4,000 signatures needed to trigger a poll of members on "whether to oppose tory brexit, and whether to campaign for labour to hold a vote at its annual conference
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sq miles) of territory stretching from western syria to eastern iraq. the uk had been reluctant to take back citizens from the area. other countries including france, denmark, norway and kazakhstan have brought children home. the united nations has said countries should take responsibility for their own citizens unless they are to be prosecuted in syria in accordance with international standards. save the children said the repatriation was a "triumph of compassion in the face of cruelty," and that it would allow the youngsters to live full, happy lives. but alison griffin, head of humanitarian campaigns at the children's charity, said more work was needed. she added: "there are still as many as 60 british children that remain stranded in appalling conditions and syria's harsh winter will soon begin to bite. "all are as innocent as those rescued today and our very real fear is that they won't all survive
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to do with art." olsen's opinion, while crude, has not aged badly. if dargie is remembered at all, it's for his archibald success and his work as an official war artist during the second world war; his reputation has otherwise faded from view. but that protest in 1953 was also consistent with the anxieties that have long attached themselves to this competition. the archibald, which celebrates its centenary this year, has been a magnet for debate since its inception partly because of what these paintings reveal about the country around it, and how that reconciles with the stories that australians like to tell about themselves. to sift through the history of the prize, from the winners to the finalists, to consider the faces both recognised and neglected, is to encounter a wonderfully messy narrative, forever contested and evolving. no wonder the crowds come. australia has other art competitions, including the
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tiles, were unveiled. in the sitting room, they took a hammer to the partition wall to capitalise on the light which pours through three windows. wirksworth has a long tradition of design and industry and isabel has forged close links with the town's artists and makers. the glass lights cascading like gems on chains were hand-blown by curiousa & curiousa. a landscape by rosalind bliss, a brooding portrait by bernard culshaw, and the fantastical work of kristjana s williams all add colour. on another wall is a swarm of glazed insects by potter anna collette hunt. "she was commissioned to make 10,000 for a show at a museum. i bought 300 and we put them up using glue guns," says isabel who plans to open her own gallery, mi, later this year. in 2012, the couple bought the next door apartment – added as a billiards room in the 19th
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it. "the email was very ambiguous," he said. "i thought it was because i'd just used a new bank card. i didn't realise it was actually my account details that could have been compromised. "it worried me - i feel better now it's been clarified." others responded in good humour on social media, questioning how much their points would actually be worth to a hacker. the uk loyalty scheme offers one point for every pound spent in store. every 100 points are worth £1. the bbc understands about 19 million people have a clubcard account. this twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. please enable javascript or try a different browser. view original content on twitter the bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites. skip twitter post by aiden this article contains content provided by twitter. we ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as
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browser. international women's day: women discuss the items that empower them people on social media questioned if the emoji launch meant she had changed her mind on the term. dr cynthia carter, who specialises in feminist media studies at cardiff university, acknowledged that many feminist academics took issue with self-objectification by celebrities such as kim kardashian or beyonce. "but if someone wants to call themselves a feminist, they should be able to," she said. "who is to say that there has to be one type of feminist and everyone has to sing from the same hymn sheet?" she told the bbc, adding that she thought feminism should be a dialogue, and not a hierarchy. some on social media accused kim of using feminism and international women's day to profit financially with a $2.99 price tag. prominent women's rights lawyer gloria allred told news website toofab the reality star should consider
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weighed 7lb 1oz princess eugenie and jack brooksbank's second son was born on 30 may 2023. it is the first royal birth since the coronation of king charles, eugenie's uncle. ernest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the duke of edinburgh down to 14th place. eugenie said the baby's names were inspired by "his great-great-great grandfather george, his grandpa george and my grandpa ronald". major ronald ferguson, who died in 2003 was the duchess of york's father. prince edward was given the title duke of edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father prince philip, who previously held the title. it was understood that philip had wanted edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to king charles. prince edward's wife sophie becomes the duchess of edinburgh and the prince's former title, the earl of wessex, has now been
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kenosha on the night of the shooting. it is not yet clear if rittenhouse responded to the facebook "call to arms", which was also amplified by the conspiracy site infowars. following the shooting, facebook removed the kenosha guard page and its event for violating its new policy against us-based militias with links to violence. two facebook users told tech news site the verge that they had reported the page and the event invitation to facebook before the shooting, out of concerns that violence would occur, only to have facebook moderators say that the pages did not violate any rules. "what happened in kenosha was preventable but facebook chose to look the other way yet again," said madihha ahussain, muslim advocates' special counsel for anti-muslim bigotry. "before any more people are threatened by armed bigots and any more lives are lost, facebook must finally take responsibility for the horror it continues
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the pallid blue light of my phone cut through the gloom of my bedroom. i turned over, reached for it and read an email that had just come in. before putting my phone down again, i looked at the time. 2.03am. "what am i doing?" i asked myself as i drifted back to sleep. when i woke up four hours later, i reached for my phone – and, out of habit, i began to scroll through social media. one of the first news stories i noticed was that the apple iphone has turned 10 years old. i wondered how much our life had changed in that period thanks to this iconic piece of technology. after a quick google search, i discovered that four in five adults in the uk now have a smartphone, and that the average us citizen looks at their device 46 times a day; if they are
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worker-director to guarantee the firm's purpose. mcdonnell could build on these. he could propose a new companies act to make a commitment to purpose a condition of forming a company. companies need more long-term, engaged, substantive shareholders on whom they can depend. he could turn his attention to britain's asset management industry and direct it to take its obligations to steward companies much more seriously. he could explain how he wants to reshape the financial system to lower the cost of capital. he could wean himself off an instinctive reflex to nationalise by embracing different corporate forms through which social benefit can be delivered. he could declare that his aim is to create a new generation of great british companies whose strength will be built on the new communities of interest between repurposed trade unions, customers and long-term shareholders. he could build a great political coalition of the left and
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a civil rights group in birmingham, ala., said on friday that it had reinstated angela davis, the activist and scholar, as the recipient of its annual human rights award, reversing a controversial decision to revoke the honor weeks ago.
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more than a few artists i know made a pilgrimage to germany to see the 2018-19 retrospective of the sculptor cady noland at the museum of modern art in frankfurt. this says two things: one is that her work, an amalgam of post-punk minimalism, installation art and institutional critique, is crucial for some artists; the other is that the show did not travel to the united states, despite noland's work being an excoriating critique of american history and politics.
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in 1969, when the new york police raided the stonewall inn and encountered unexpected resistance from lgbt protesters, homosexuality was still criminalised in most countries. even in more tolerant societies, venturing out of the closet was often akin to social and professional suicide. today, in contrast, the prime minister of serbia is openly lesbian and the prime minister of ireland is proudly gay, as are the ceo of apple and numerous other politicians, businesspeople, artists and scientists. in the united states, the average republican today holds far more liberal views on lgbt issues than the average democrat held in 1969. the argument has moved from "should the state imprison lgbt people?" to "should the state recognise same-sex marriage?" (and almost half of republicans support same-sex marriage). that said, about 70 countries still criminalise homosexuality today. saudi arabia, iran, brunei and several more sentence gay people to death. even the most
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the financial crisis. lucy o'carroll, chief economist at aberdeen standard investments, said: "the symbolism of this hike is more significant than its economic impact." the bank has been reluctant to raise interest rates until now, arguing that inflation had been boosted by the fall in the value of the pound since the brexit vote in june of last year. that weaker pound has driven up the costs of imported food, fuel and other goods. the bank says this effect is probably at its peak at the moment. the other issue holding back the bank has been the weakness in wage growth. while inflation hit 3% in september, wage growth was only 2.1%. however, the bank sees wage growth "gradually" increasing over the 2018 and says there are signs of that happening already. in its quarterly inflation report, released with the announcement on rates, the bank estimated inflation was likely to
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medical services. a spokeswoman for the foreign office said: "our staff are supporting the family of a british man following his death in sri lanka, and are in contact with the sri lankan hospital services. "we are assisting the family of a british man who has been hospitalised in sri lanka, and are in contact with the sri lankan medical services." durham county councillor dr david boyes said durham city rfc was a very well organised, well equipped organisation and oversaw a number of teams. dr boyes added that the club had organised numerous tours abroad in the past and had never had any problems before. "i really feel for the families, being that far away and knowing that a family member has died must be terrible," he said. clem's pirates tours regularly across europe and further afield. it is a well known club in the area especially for its
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pyeongchang, south korea — there are hundreds of athletes at the winter olympics who can soar and flip and twist in the air in a manner that appears to defy gravity.
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least the one-day series in january – eoin morgan's side will be competitive – and the challenge of trying to beat south africa away in march. the big left-armer will be pushing hard but, in my experience, those injuries can be misleading. you can do pretty much anything without feeling pain. that is until you slam the heel down in delivery repeatedly. so it all points to jackson bird coming in. though a skilful right-armer, his pace is a touch lower so there is at least a bit of respite for the english tail. their collective plight has been the topic of debate in australia this week after mike atherton's column in the times. the former england captain made a though-provoking argument that during the barrage of hostile bowling from australia the umpires should have been more proactive in protecting jake ball (in brisbane), and jimmy anderson – aka the
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in some way as a career. a lot of young people now associate tech with the sleek, beautiful campuses of apple and facebook in silicon valley. i made my monitor because i saw a problem with my mum's heart, but i also did a project about an eco- sprinkler system when i saw that a lot of water was wasted on my neighbours' lawns. i want to combine my passions of environmental science and computer science and build a product that will make conservational biology much more efficient. preserving biodiversity is something we're struggling with as a planet; hopefully one day i can develop a device that can make that go more smoothly. raphaël wreford, 13, london my technology career started when i was four and my dad showed me how to make a powerpoint. i was really bad at drawing, so i would use it to make cool shapes
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this video can not be played to play this video you need to enable javascript in your browser. typhoon jebi has left tens of thousands of people without power japan has been hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years, causing at least seven deaths and 200 injuries. typhoon jebi made landfall in western areas, bringing heavy rain and reports of winds up to 172km/h (107mph). in osaka bay it swept a tanker into a bridge and in kyoto parts of a railway station roof came down. officials ordered more than a million people in affected areas to evacuate their homes amid warnings of high waves, flooding and mudslides. it has already left tens of thousands without power and authorities have urged people to move to safety. this twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. please enable javascript or try a different browser. view original content on twitter the
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vince and gary ballance, who will both be recalled with tom westley cut. mauricio pochettino described harry kane as a "killer" in front of goal after watching him drag tottenham hotspur almost single-handedly to a 3-0 champions league win at apoel nicosia. in moscow, liverpool were left to rue missed chances in a 1-1 draw with spartak, while kevin de bruyne led manchester city to a 2-0 defeat of shakhtar donetsk at etihad stadium. in rugby, the new chief executive of the rfu, steve brown, has admitted averting a possible player strike is among his most pressing priorities. and tennessee titans wide receiver rishard matthews has said he will continue to kneel for the national anthem until donald trump apologises for remarks made on friday at an alabama rally. business the entrepreneur and inventor james dyson has announced that his company is working on an electric car prototype that will
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civil service to deliver this outcome should it become necessary. and the chancellor has confirmed that all necessary funding will be made available." on eu nationals, johnson said he wanted to "repeat unequivocally our guarantee to the 3.2 million eu nationals now living and working among us". he said: "i thank them for their contribution to our society and for their patience, and i can assure them that under this government they will have the absolute certainty for the right to live and remain." responding to johnson, labour said the new pm had inherited "a country that's been held back by nine years of austerity, that has hit children and young people the hardest". the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, said: "no one underestimates this country. but the country is deeply worried that the new prime minister is overestimating himself." johnson said in his speech, loudly cheered by many tory mps,
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years of bashing by anti-government ideologues have gutted the capacity of vital agencies like the i.r.s., the small business administration and state unemployment offices. in the economic calamity brought on by the pandemic, in the past month alone, over 22 million jobless americans have filed for relief.
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cathedral to michelangelo's david? the answer is all around you as you meditate inside trajan's column. the cast courts are relics of a cultural europhilia that's clearly not shared by modern britain. these loving educational artworks bear witness to a passion to know, to see, and most of all to understand the cultural heritage of europe: to bring the continent's artistic jewels to these rainy shores. just a handful of british monuments are replicated – including medieval effigies of knights from london's templar church, which are precious because the originals were badly damaged in the blitz. german art treasures are displayed near the templar effigies. there's an immense flowing monument by adam kraft, carved in 1490-2, that's a wonder of renaissance nuremberg: the v&a's beautiful pale cast of this teeming panoramic relief lets you contemplate the pitiful faces of christ's mourners as they lower his body into its tomb. from
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britain came close to effective insolvency at the onset of the coronavirus crisis as financial markets plunged into turmoil, the governor of the bank of england has said. laying bare the scale of the national emergency at the early stages of the pandemic, andrew bailey said the government would have struggled to finance the running of the country without support from the central bank. asked in an interview with sky news what would have happened had the bank not intervened, bailey said: "i think the prospects would have been very bad. it would have been very serious." "i think we would have a situation where, in the worst element, the government would have struggled to fund itself in the short run." amid widespread investor panic as the virus spread, the bank of england stepped in by pumping £200bn into the market for uk government bonds under a policy known as
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was entirely forgotten – george orwell had been a fan, and a pioneering biography by jakob korg had appeared in 1962 – merely that so many of his books were out of print. over the next decade, under the auspices of his harvester press imprint, spiers, in collaboration with coustillas, set about remedying this deficiency, reissuing 18 of the novels. london and the life of literature in late-victorian england (1978), an edition of gissing's diaries, provided a portrait of the fin-de-siècle literary lifestyle was so uncompromising that one reviewer diagnosed a plot got up by the society of authors aimed at deterring new recruits to an over-populated trade. a two-volume life of gissing had been announced in a harvester press catalogue in the early 1980s, but coustillas had another quest in view: a scholarly edition of gissing's correspondence. co-edited with the american scholars paul f matheisen and arthur c young
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an score of 40 – putting it in the e band. the reader says he is certain no improvements have been carried out – and, as his daughter lives there, he should probably know. he adds that the letting agent is "using fraudulent epc information". the man says he has not raised the issue as he does not want to jeopardise the return of his daughter's deposit. his advice to others is: "don't just take the word of the agent that the epc is what they say it is." there is an easy way for anyone looking to rent or buy – or is simply a nosy neighbour – to check the epc of any property. go to epcregister.com, click on "retrieve report using property address" and type in the postcode or address, and you can then view the epc for that property (if it hasn't been sold or rented
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Spatiotemporal News Dataset
Overview
This dataset contains approximately 1.2 million English-language news headlines and articles sourced from major outlets in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Each entry is annotated with spatial (country of origin) and temporal (date of publication) contexts, designed for training spatiotemporal-aware sentence embeddings, specifically our Space-Time-MiniLM-v0 model. The dataset covers the period from January 2017 to December 2021 (60 months).
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
This dataset comprises approximately 1.2 million English news entries (185 million words) collected from January 2017 to December 2021
for developing unified sentence embeddings that integrate both spatial and temporal contexts.
Unlike existing embedding techniques that focus on single-word embeddings or handle spatial and temporal dimensions independently,
this dataset provides complete sentences with explicit spatiotemporal annotations at monthly and country-level granularity.
Data was systematically collected through a multi-source approach: leveraging existing datasets from Kaggle and HuggingFace, accessing the GDELT
Global Knowledge Graph for geopolitical event coverage, and conducting ethical web-scraping of major news outlets (BBC, New York Times, The Guardian)
across four English-speaking countries while strictly adhering to robots.txt protocols and rate-limiting guidelines.
All sentences were normalized to lowercase and filtered to 3-150 tokens, with no new vocabulary introduced to avoid semantic drift effects.
The dataset uses an 80-10-10 train/validation/test split stratified by both month and country,
with the training set organized into 9 batches of 120,000 samples for computational efficiency.
- News Outlets:
- United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- United States: The New York Times
- Australia: The Guardian
- Canada: The Guardian
- Geographic Coverage: US, UK, Canada, Australia
- Temporal Coverage: January 2017 - December 2021 (60 months)
- Dataset Size: ~1.2M articles/headlines, 185M words
- Text Processing: Lowercase normalization, 3-150 token filtering
- Language: English
Dataset Structure
The dataset is organized into three categories:
- The original source files
- The data splits (train, test, validation)
- The pre-computed files for sentence similarity tasks.
1) Original Source Files
The pre-processed data from the news outlets are in four separate CSV files: data_canada.csv, data_uk.csv, data_us.csv, and data_australia.csv.
Each entry in these files represents a single news article from the respective country. For example:
| date | article | location |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-08 | "The UK has recorded the highest number of new coronavirus cases since 12 June..." | "Australia" |
- Data Fields
date(string): publication timestamparticle(string): The pre-processed text of the news article/headline.location(string): Country of origin
2) Train/Validation/Test Splits
Stratified splits ensuring balanced representation across temporal and spatial dimensions (80-10-10 ratio). Each entry in a data split file represents a single news article. For example:
| unamed | unnamed | date | article | location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 810670 | 43 | "to go into a winter with no treatment or vaccine, and the sad thing is..." | 0 |
Data Fields
unamed(int): A unique identifier for the data entry (the index).unamed: not importantarticle(string): The pre-processed text of the news article/headline.date(int): An integer representing the month of publication, where 0 corresponds to January 2017.location(int): An integer label for the country of origin, mapped as follows:- 0: United Kingdom (UK)
- 1: United States (US)
- 2: Australia (AUS)
- 3: Canada (CAN)
Split Statistics:
- Training: ~960K samples (9 batches of 120K each)
- Validation: ~120K samples
- Test: ~120K samples
- Stratification: Balanced across 60 months × 4 countries = 240 strata
3) Siamese Training Data:
Sentence pairs for contrastive learning with similarity annotations:
df_sentences (All Pairs)
- Stratified pairs covering 8 similarity scenarios: {same/different sentence} × {same/different time} × {same/different space}
same_sentences (Identical Pairs)
- Pairs with identical sentence content but varying spatiotemporal contexts
diff_sentences (Unique Pairs)
- Pairs with different sentence content across various spatiotemporal contexts
Siamese Pair Schema:
├── unamed (int): index of the entry
├── sent1 (string): First sentence in the pair
├── sent2 (string): Second sentence in the pair
├── t1 (int): Temporal context of sentence1 (0-59)
├── t2 (int): Temporal context of sentence2 (0-59)
├── s1 (int): Spatial context of sentence1 (0-3)
├── s2 (int): Spatial context of sentence2 (0-3)
├── time_dist (float): Temporal similarity score (0-1)
├── space_dist (float): Spatial similarity score (0-1)
├── semantic_similarity (float): Semantic similarity score (0-1)
├── cosine_sim (float): Cosine similarity in the learned spatiotemporal embedding space (0-1)
└── similarity (float): Weighted combination (0.7×semantic + 0.15×time + 0.15×space)
Uses
Direct Use
This dataset is intended for training and evaluating spatiotemporal-aware sentence embedding models. Suitable use cases include:
- Training transformer-based models with explicit spatial and temporal context awareness
- Semantic similarity tasks that require geographic or temporal sensitivity
- Multi-task learning scenarios combining masked language modeling, spatial classification, and temporal classification
- Research on how language usage varies across time and geographic regions
- Evaluation of embedding performance on semantically, spatially, and temporally sensitive tasks
Out-of-Scope Use
This dataset should not be used for:
- Applications requiring fine-grained geographic precision beyond country-level
- Temporal analysis requiring sub-monthly granularity
- Multilingual applications (dataset is English-only)
- Tasks requiring coverage of regions outside the four included countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia)
- Applications sensitive to semantic drift or vocabulary evolution, as no new vocabulary was introduced during collection
Extra Information
To learn more about our project, you can checkout our paper here. Our model is also available on hugging face. For any further inquiry, my email is [email protected].
Note: data_india.csv file is included and was pre-processed however wasn't used in our project. It also follows the original source file schema.
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