Financial Times
Performance of top strikers and victories for popular teams have cost DraftKings as much as $50mn
Financial Times
34-year-old Ben Francis is seeking to cement his control over fitness brand after a rocky period for the business
Financial Times
Six-day ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei anticipated to be largest of its kind and provide clues of regime’s strength
The Guardian
This weekend marks 250 years since the signing of the declaration of independence, but Donald Trump is making the celebration all about himself. As the anniversary approaches, Jonathan Freedland talks to the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum about why so many Americans are feeling less patriotic these daysArchive: AP, Reuters Continue reading...
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Their movie about marital bed death is this summer’s buzziest, funniest film. Its director and her co-star talk self-loathing, psychosexuality and unexpected eruptionsEarlier this week, Edward Norton took a night flight from Los Angeles to London and felt so dreadful the next day he decided to get a massage. “I hadn’t had one in such a long time,” he says, “and I almost started crying. You’re like: ‘Oh! Ah!’”He has heard similar sounds from cinemas screening his new movie, The Invite, which is a
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Rebecca Ferguson is still excellent in this unremittingly grey-green subterranean post-apocalypse. Its political acuity makes it worth watching, even if it’s not always the most entertaining …Being trapped indefinitely in an underground bunker, post-apocalypse, would have many drawbacks, but one of the worst would be miserable boredom. How would you fill the day, and the next and the next, apart from with squabbles and gloom? It’s a problem that Silo, a plush but inevitably rather dank sci-fi dr
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In one area 76% of fishing boats were followed, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parentsBottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic are increasingly following trawlers to scavenge for food, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parents, a study has found.“These days the easiest way to find [bottlenose dolphins] is to look for trawlers,” said Giovanni Bearzi, a co-author of the study and the president of Dolphin Biology and Conservation in Italy. “Many of them are follo
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Painting by Jérémie Queyras shows former German chancellor in trademark jacket – at a time of nostalgia for her ruleOver months they met secretly in a studio in the government quarter of central Berlin – a young artist and his subject, the former German chancellor Angela Merkel. For hours at a time, while Jérémie Queyras painted her portrait, they bonded, Merkel has said, chatting “about all and sundry”. Sometimes they were silent, or they listened to classical music, taking it in turns to let e
Financial Times
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump plan a luxury residential complex that locals say will threaten a natural reserve
Financial Times
Darren Woods has become the most powerful oil industry chief executive for a generation by testing the limits of corporate power
Financial Times
Andy Burnham’s fantasy realm will fall apart if it’s allowed contact with messy geographical reality
Financial Times
Land, credit and enslaved people made up people’s fortunes on the eve of revolution
Variety
“Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows,” mutters Madonna at the start of “I Feel So Free,” the opening track on her 15th album “Confessions II.” “Create a new persona. A different identity. I can be whoever I want to be.” As hard as it may be to picture Madonna hiding in the […]
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It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.
Science Daily
An unusual gravitational wave signal has renewed hopes that primordial black holes, long considered purely theoretical, may finally be within reach of discovery. If confirmed, they could solve one of astronomy's greatest mysteries by explaining the nature of dark matter.
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Options traders are paying up to hedge against sharp moves in the yen ahead of thin US holiday trading, as speculation grows that Japanese authorities may be less predictable in how they intervene to support the currency.