Rough N’ Ready: the year’s standouts

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Rough N’ Ready: the year’s standouts

Three-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington returns to American cinema after five years, with a psychotic vengeance film based on 2011’s crime novel Man on Fire, in which Washington plays a man who becomes a…

Magnus Carlsen wins 2018 season of chess duel with Kasparov

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Magnus Carlsen wins 2018 season of chess duel with Kasparov

Carlsen reportedly got to work playing chess – a bit faster. Everyone’s favorite chess champion, 29-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway, won the year-long season of his duel with Russian Garry Kasparov, the world chess…

Parents advised to wait for new flu shots for children

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Parents advised to wait for new flu shots for children

Cases of super-strain of flu reported across England as pandemic threat recedes Parents have been advised not to give their children flu vaccinations immediately after only one jab and that checks are being made…

Last surviving 'Band of Brothers' general dies aged 99

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Last surviving ‘Band of Brothers’ general dies aged 99

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Shames described how he recalled his battle-tests at St Nazaire in Normandy. Edward Shames, a retired Major-General and last officer from the famous World War II “Band of Brothers”,…

Talk Like an Executive Coach: Annie Frisbie

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Talk Like an Executive Coach: Annie Frisbie

What had you thought about your first marathon before you made the all-important team of 11 that would hit the pavement? Annie Frisbie: I really never knew what it was, so I was thinking,…

You Can’t Knock The People, Even As We Knock Them Down

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You Can’t Knock The People, Even As We Knock Them Down

“One person’s gas is another person’s poison.”— Thomas Jefferson As the United States opens its doors to more of the world’s jobs, some Canadians appear intent on stealing jobs. However, one resource they have…

Russian Foreign Minister orders US diplomats to leave country

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Russian Foreign Minister orders US diplomats to leave country

Written by Staff Writer Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ordered some US diplomats to leave the country “until further notice,” he told reporters in Moscow on Friday, describing the expulsions as a “consequence of…