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Gymgoer drops barbell on chest and falls flat on his face, allegedly while drunk

Gymgoer drops barbell on chest and falls flat on his face, allegedly while drunk

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This is why they don’t sell booze at the gym. As seen in painful-looking footage from China, one gymgoer recently learned that drinking and working out do not mix. The footage, which hit the Internet earlier this week, shows the moment... Read More

Remodeling a kitchen? Experts say these are the biggest mistakes you can make

Remodeling a kitchen? Experts say these are the biggest mistakes you can make

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Newt Gingrich: Big differences between Clinton and Trump impeachments – And I should know

Newt Gingrich: Big differences between Clinton and Trump impeachments – And I should know

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Switching broadband provider ‘could save £120’

Switching broadband provider ‘could save £120’

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Haggling could save households £120 a year on broadband, but 45% of customers have not asked their current provider... Read More

The prize app designed to help deaf children in school

The prize app designed to help deaf children in school

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Schoolchildren have won a competition by designing an app which transcribes school lessons for people who are deaf or... Read More

ByteDance unit establishes venture with Chinese state media firm

ByteDance unit establishes venture with Chinese state media firm

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US video surveillance rivals China’s, report says

US video surveillance rivals China’s, report says

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New leaks provide further evidence that OPCW suppressed & altered findings on Douma ‘chemical attack’

New leaks provide further evidence that OPCW suppressed & altered findings on Douma ‘chemical attack’

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A new cache of internal documents reveal that members of the OPCW team tasked with probing the Douma “chemical... Read More

Aramco indicative share price up slightly to 37 riyals

Aramco indicative share price up slightly to 37 riyals

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FILE PHOTO: Participants attend the official ceremony marking the debut of Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering (IPO) on the... Read More

UPDATE 1-Brazil Vale dam near site of January disaster has ‘cracks’ -TV station

UPDATE 1-Brazil Vale dam near site of January disaster has ‘cracks’ -TV station

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FILE PHOTO: A view of the Brazilian mining company Vale’s tailings dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil December... Read More

UPDATE 1-Qatar open to accepting all currencies for trade – FinMin

UPDATE 1-Qatar open to accepting all currencies for trade – FinMin

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China suspends planned tariffs scheduled for Dec. 15 on some U.S. goods

China suspends planned tariffs scheduled for Dec. 15 on some U.S. goods

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FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has suspended additional tariffs on some U.S. goods that were meant to be implemented on Dec.... Read More

Mexico objects to labor enforcement provision in North American trade deal

Mexico objects to labor enforcement provision in North American trade deal

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s deputy foreign minister, Jesus Seade, said on Saturday he sent a letter to the...

California governor rejects PG&E bankruptcy reorganization plan

California governor rejects PG&E bankruptcy reorganization plan

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(Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday rejected a bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by PG&E Corp (PCG.N), the...

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Cher Lloyd: ‘I’m not on the conveyor belt any more’

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 crowns its winners

Strictly Come Dancing 2019 crowns its winners

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Shaquille O’Neal jokes that Stevie Wonder isn’t really blind after elevator encounter

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50 Cent, Russell Simmons slam Oprah over upcoming sexual misconduct documentary

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Bristol-Myers wins $752 million in U.S. patent case against Gilead

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Samoa extends measles state of emergency, NZ to fund Pacific vaccination campaign

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FDA panel votes unanimously in favor of Horizon’s thyroid eye disease drug

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China suspends planned tariffs scheduled for Dec. 15 on some U.S. goods

FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has suspended additional tariffs on some U.S. goods that were meant to be implemented on Dec. 15, the State Council’s customs tariff commission said on Sunda [...]

Mexico objects to labor enforcement provision in North American trade deal

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s deputy foreign minister, Jesus Seade, said on Saturday he sent a letter to the top U.S. trade official expressing surprise and concern over a labor enforcement provision proposed by a U.S. congressional committee in the new North American trade deal. FILE PHOTO: Mexi [...]

California governor rejects PG&E bankruptcy reorganization plan

(Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday rejected a bankruptcy reorganization plan submitted by PG&E Corp (PCG.N), the state’s largest investor-owned utility, saying its proposal fails to meet the requirements of a recently enacted wildfire law. The decision by Newsom, sent to PG [...]

UFC 245: Alexander Volkanovski dethrones Max Holloway to capture UFC featherweight title

In the co-main event of UFC 245, Australian challenger Alexander Volkanovski produced a brilliant performance to defeat Max Holloway and capture the UFC featherweight title. There wasn’t much of a feeling-out process between the top featherweights. As per usual, Holloway’s world-class volume was bei [...]

Nebraska man on death row for killing 4 – but Texas woman says she’ll marry him: report

A 33-year-old Nebraska man on death row for killing four people within 10 days in 2013 has at least one friend still in his corner: a 46-year-old Texas woman who reportedly has confirmed that she and the killer plan to marry. But Dawn Arguello of Lubbock isn’t happy that Nikko Jenkins – who authorit [...]

China suspends tariff hike on selected US goods, expects ‘mutual respect & equality’ in future trade talks

China has suspended a new tariff hike on US goods ranging from corn and wheat to vehicles and auto parts, which was due to come into effect this weekend. Tariffs that have already been been implemented on US goods will be left in place until the next stages of negotiations, however. “China hopes, on [...]

UPDATE 1-Brazil Vale dam near site of January disaster has ‘cracks’ -TV station

FILE PHOTO: A view of the Brazilian mining company Vale’s tailings dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves/File Photo RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – State prosecutors in Brazil have identified cracks in a tailings dam owned by iron ore mining company Val [...]

UPDATE 1-Qatar open to accepting all currencies for trade – FinMin

DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar is open to accepting all currencies for trade though the dollar will still dominate, Finance Minister Ali al-Emadi told a conference in Doha on Saturday. The comment at the Doha Forum came in response to a question about whether Qatar, one of the world largest exporters of liq [...]

UPDATE 1-S.Korea’s Nov U.S. crude imports up 80.4% on-year

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s U.S. crude oil imports rose 80.4% in November from a year earlier, with imports in the first 11 months soaring 165.3%, customs data showed on Sunday. South Korea, the world’s fifth-largest crude oil importer, shipped in 1.56 million tonnes of U.S. crude oil in Novembe [...]

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Laredo Petroleum Announces Appointment of Craig Jarchow to Board of Directors

TULSA, OK, Dec. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Laredo Petroleum, Inc. (NYSE: LPI) (“Laredo” or “the Company”) today announced the appointment of Craig Jarchow to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). His appointment as an independent director is effective December 10, 2019. Mr. Jarchow has mo [...]

Marksmen Announces Final Closing of Private Placement

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Marksmen Energy Inc. (TSXV: MAH) (OTCQB: MKSEF) (“Marksmen” or the “Company”) announces that it has completed the second and final closing of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of units (the “Units”) of Marksmen (the “Offering”) [...]

Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. Confirms Dividends for January 15, 2020 and Approves 2020 Capital Budget

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. (TSX: PEY) (“Peyto”) confirms that the monthly dividend with respect to December 2019 of $0.02 per common share is to be paid on January 15, 2020, for shareholders of record on December 31, 2019. The ex-divi [...]

Kameleoon appoints experienced digital marketing executive Martin Harrison as first UK Managing Director

Largest European personalisation technology provider expands on back of new funding and identity London and Paris, 10 December 2019, Kameleoon, the leading AI-driven personalisation and A/B testing platform provider, today announced the appointment of Martin Harrison as its first UK Managing Directo [...]

Hampleton Partners Advises FAST LTA on acquisition by Afinum

Munich, Germany and London, UK – 9 December 2019. Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised FAST LTA AG, leading provider of zero-loss archiving and backup solutions for mission-critical data, on its acquisition by Afinum [...]

Only 46 percent of BAME and 52 percent of LGBTQ+ women feel included in company decision making

Only 46 percent of BAME and 52 percent of LGBTQ+ women feel included in company decision making Navigation Menu RealWire Limited Delivering Relevance, Releasing Influence Press Release Straight white men still dominate across all aspects of business according to Culture Amp global research of over 3 [...]

Switching broadband provider ‘could save £120’

Haggling could save households £120 a year on broadband, but 45% of customers have not asked their current provider for a better deal, according to Which? The consumer group found that 78% of people who negotiated were offered an incentive, discount or a better deal. More than 5,000 customers were a [...]

The prize app designed to help deaf children in school

Schoolchildren have won a competition by designing an app which transcribes school lessons for people who are deaf or who have hearing loss. It was part of a competition run by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to encourage young people to consider careers in technology. As prize winners they will have the [...]

ByteDance unit establishes venture with Chinese state media firm

FILE PHOTO: Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – A unit of ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing platform TikTok, has established a joint vent [...]

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Bristol-Myers wins $752 million in U.S. patent case against Gilead

FILE PHOTO: Logo of global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb is pictured on the blouse of an employee in Le Passage, near Agen, France March 29, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (Reuters) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co on Friday said it won a $752 million jury verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc [...]

Samoa extends measles state of emergency, NZ to fund Pacific vaccination campaign

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Saturday extended a state of emergency due to a measles outbreak which has killed 72 people, mostly infants, as New Zealand announced NZ$1 million ($640,700) to help combat measles in the Pacific. FILE PHOTO: A view of the capital Api [...]

FDA panel votes unanimously in favor of Horizon’s thyroid eye disease drug

(Reuters) – Independent advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted unanimously in favor of Horizon Therapeutics Plc’s experimental treatment for thyroid eye disease (TED), taking the drug a step towards potential approval. If approved, teprotumumab, a type of immunotherapy, is [...]

Scientists find toxic fungus near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Poison Fire Coral fungus is seen in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, in this undated picture obtained from social media. RAY PALMER /via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A highly poisonous fungus, with toxins that c [...]

Trump administration likely to announce details of biofuels deal by Friday: sources

(Reuters) – The Trump administration is expected to announce by Friday details of a U.S. biofuels policy deal to help farmers angry over waivers granted to refiners exempting them from using corn-based ethanol and other biofuels, four sources familiar with the matter said. The White House has held w [...]

Chevron aims to cut intensity of greenhouse gas emissions from production

(Reuters) – Chevron Corp (CVX.N) aims to reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions from its oil production by 5% to 10% over a seven-year period ending 2023 as part of an ongoing effort to combat global climate change, the U.S. energy major said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A Chevron gas station [...]