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If you want to get this briefing by email, sign up hereHS2 approval Image copyright HS2 Ltd It’s behind schedule and over budget, but the entire High Speed 2 rail line will get the final go-ahead from the government. HS2 will link London to the Midlands and North, and its supporters promise it will cut…
Steven Thompson ended the last round against Cleveland Browns’ Scottish punter Jamie Gillan in defeat, with Gillan correctly predicting four wins to Thommo’s two.This week, the Sportscene pundit takes on former basketball pro and Olympian Kieron Achara. Media playback is not supported on this device Sportscene Predictions: Thommo v Kieron AcharaSportscene predictor: Thommo takes on…
Image copyright ABC News/Love family Image caption Both Thoms (left) and Love have lived in Australia since they were children Australia’s High Court has said Aboriginal people hold a special status under the law so cannot be deported – even if they are not citizens.The ruling is being seen as a historic moment for the…
Image copyright PA/AFP/Getty Image caption It remains to be seen who between Leo Varadkar (Fine Gael), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin) and Micheál Martin (Fianna Fáil) will lead a new Irish government Ireland’s three largest political parties will turn their focus towards the formation of a new government after the final general election results were…
The 92nd Academy Awards were filled with upsets, heartwarming moments, and a few big surprises. While some Hollywood types might think that Parasite’s history-making win was the night’s greatest surprise, there was more. For some fans watching at home, that title was the glow up of presenter Ray Romano. Romano, who starred in Martin Scorsese’s…
Three people have been shot at a Walmart in Forrest City, Ark., according to police officials and city mayor Cedric Williams. At around 10 a.m. Monday, two Forrest City Police Department officers responded to a call of a threat inside a Walmart, officials said. The two officers engaged with the suspect and were shot. The…
As the Democratic presidential candidates sprinted into their final full day of campaigning before New Hampshire casts the first votes of the 2020, the wide field of frontrunners swung between preaching party unity and lobbing attacks at each other. Roughly half of New Hampshire voters are still undecided whom they’ll support on Tuesday, and people…
(NEW YORK) — ABC’s telecast of the Academy Awards hit an all-time low in the ratings, with 23.6 million people tuning in to see Parasite named best picture. The Nielsen company says that’s down from the 29.6 million people who watched the show last year. The previous low for the Oscars came in 2018, when…
(NEW YORK) — In the strongest defense testimony yet, a Mexican model and actress denied a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by and did nothing while the once-powerful movie mogul groped her in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013. “Never happened,” Claudia Salinas told jurors Monday at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York…
