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The Bank of England has told big UK banks including Barclays and Standard Chartered that they need to improve their preparations for a potential failure…
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“Once upon a time this river was filled with fish; now, nothing swims in it any more,” says Wat Chak Daeng temple’s abbot, Phra Mahapranom…
View More How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollutionAfrican classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall
Apioneering pan-African youth orchestra will perform in public for only the second time this weekend – at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The Africa United Youth…
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In between jumps, Yaroslava Mahuchikh returns to her bench, crawls under a sleeping bag she always brings with her into the arena, rests her head…
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Shares on Wall Street have risen and many Asian and European markets staged a recovery after this week’s global stock market rout, but analysts warned:…
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Oceana Mackenzie enters the arena and faces the first “problem” she must overcome, a daunting four-and a-half metre wall studded with a seemingly-random smattering of…
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Unions have welcomed the government’s move to formally scrap a “draconian” anti-strike law that would have ensured a minimum level of service during industrial action…
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