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AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Democrats see top GOP Sen. Ted Cruz as uniquely vulnerable in the wake of Doug Jones’s upset win in Alabama. Cruz’s favorability ratings are lowers than Republican Roy Moore’s unfavorable ratings. Despite Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s numerous flaws, Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over the former judge Tuesday night caught many political […]
Real manager Zinedine Zidane has admitted that his club could be in the market for players during the January window and Luiz, who is also interesting Manchester United, has been discussed as a potential target. Chelsea are expected to make another move for Juventus wing-back Alex Sandro, who is rated at £60m, in January, a […]
I’d wanted to go for some time and so my husband and I were intrigued to set off for a whistle-stop weekend there this year. The Maltese archipelago is made up of three islands – Malta, the largest, Gozo and Comino – and lies 50 miles or so south of Sicily. Malta is an island […]
The revolutionary vanguard VANGUARD, an American fund-management giant, promises “the highest standards of ethical behaviour”. Its low fees, helpful call centres and lack of scandal give the claim credence. It is by far the largest mutual-fund group, with $ 4.8trn under management. It receives more than half of all the new money going into American […]
Anthony Harvey/Getty Images Former vice president Al Gore teamed up with a former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management to create Generation Investment Management, which invests in sustainable companies in both public and private markets. Generation’s ethos is rare on Wall Street. The founders say they can be long-term greedy – and make lots of […]
We know television is getting more and more expensive to produce, but with $ 260 billion to work with, Apple probably isn’t too worried about being able to cough up enough cash to entice major names for its planned expansion into original television programming. According to a new report, the company has set their sights on […]
IN RECENT days China set the record for the world’s fastest long-distance bullet train, which hurtled between Beijing and Shanghai at 350kph (217mph). This was a triumph of industrial policy as much as of engineering. China’s first high-speed trains started rolling only a decade ago; today the country has 20,000km of high-speed track, more than […]
London-based photographer Oleg Tolstoy captured photos of tourists during a recent trip to Florence’s Piazza del Duomo, one of the most visited places in the world. According to Co.Design: In cities all over Italy, floods of tourists pour in each year, threatening the preservation of increasingly worn historic sites and public squares. Deregulation of the […]
It didn’t take much longer than the two-hour flight from Munich to London for Andre De Grasse to decide what didn’t kill him would make him stronger. In an exclusive interview with the CBC, the 22-year-old Canadian sprinter said he was “devastated” when he emerged from a German doctor’s office with the news he would […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Amazon has been one of the big winners as everything from book selling to software development has moved to the internet. Now it seems to be trying to put itself into position for similar success in healthcare as that market goes digital. The e-commerce giant has set up a new, stealthy lab […]
