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As-it-happens update 18 December 2017
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The 13th human foot in a decade washed up on the shores of British Columbia, Canada, this month. The lone left foot wore a white sock inside a black Velcro athletic shoe and was still attached to its lower leg bones, the tibia and the fibula. Mike Johns, 56, found it sitting on a bed of kelp while walking on ...
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Uber is now available on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) because apparently, there are still plenty of people in the world who use the service. The function means users can hail an Uber car straight from BBM without leaving the app. "With this partnership, BBM users can quickly request an Uber ride via ...
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It was the true story that moved a Tory to tears: Heidi Allen, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, wept after Frank Field, the veteran Labour MP for Birkenhead in Wirral, told parliament of the hungry constituent who said he had had "a lucky week" because his family had been invited to a funeral ...
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New Delhi, India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared victory for his BJP party in a key election contest in the western state of Gujarat, as well as in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. As voting continued on Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was on track to win 99 seats in the ...
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The study analyzes the prospective training opportunities for school leavers across the country in each state between 2007 and 2015. "Those who graduate from high school with an Abitur have an apprenticeship practically secured," chairman of the Bertelsmann Foundation Jörg Dräger said.
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Artificial intelligence, quantum computers and brain implants may have grabbed headlines, but these technologies have yet to affect our daily lives. When I think about how my technological habits have changed in the past 12 months, 2017 feels like the year of wirelessness. Technology such as ...
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"We are in economic competition with China," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on the "Fox News Sunday" program. "This isn't about trade wars. This is about reciprocal fair trade. And if we have to protect American workers and put on tariffs or other things, where they don't have fair trade with us, ...
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A change of the guard in Poland's government should, in theory, present an opportunity to repair the country's battered relationship with its European partners. In practice, the burden of proof is on Mateusz Morawiecki, the new prime minister, to demonstrate that the change is more than cosmetic.
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In the early 1980s, the IKEA business model changed into a franchising model. Since then, it has been the Inter IKEA group that operates the franchise business of IKEA, using the "IKEA franchise concept". What this means more concretely is that Inter IKEA does not own the IKEA shops. All IKEA shops ...
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Horizons Ventures, the VC firm founded by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-Shing, has made a rare early-stage investment after it backed AI startup Fano Labs. Horizons has invested in the likes of Facebook, Razer, Slack, Improbable, Spotify and more, and now it is putting undisclosed money into Fano ...
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Ava DuVernay Decided to Direct A Wrinkle in Time So She Could Create New Worlds
The first looks at Ava DuVernay's adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time have been amazing, like shiny glimpses into a dreamlike realm. But the acclaimed director needed to be convinced to take on the movie based on Madeleine L'Engle's beloved 1962 novel.
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15 industry figures tell us how to combat sexism and harassment in dance music - Lists
I am a little less interested in consciousness-raising: either you value the safety and happinessof other people or you don't. When we talk about consciousness-raising, what we really mean is getting women to try to convince men that they [women] are human beings. And it should never be on women [to ...
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