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Day: February 22, 2020

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Everything we wanted: the race to find the next Billie Eilish

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The search for the new Billie is undoubtedly under way. But how will record labels attempt to replicate her success? Last week, No Time to Die a huge swoop of a song that wants to bottle a feeling of timelessness. It ratchets up what has already been quite the year already for her, as last month she became the youngest person to win best record, best song and album of the year (as well as best new artist) Sheeran and Ocean Eyes online in 2015 and signing to A&R hothouse…

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Settle in with these weekend reads

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(CNN)Marches against femicide. A costly French con. Citizens assisting NASA. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in. Here’s what you might have missed during a busy news week. Christina Figueres has plenty of reasons to be worried about climate change. Yet the Costa Rican diplomat still feels upbeat about fighting the crisis at hand. What’s spreading faster than the coronavirus Ignorance and misinformation about the novel coronavirus, experts say, are leading to more racist assaults and ignorant attacks against Asians in the United States. A multi-million dollar French scam…

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‘My business was flooded twice in two days’

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Image copyright Chris Harrison Image caption The Dale End Cafe was flooded twice in less than two days It’s a familiar story to business owner Mark Davies. He runs Darwin’s Townhouse bed and breakfast in Shrewsbury – on the banks of the River Severn. “I was away for a business meeting when the river started rising, and I got back to complete devastation,” he says. Mark says that the damage has taken two rooms out of action in the basement of the “main house”, an 18th Century property. “All our…

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Mercury Retrograde Is HereAre You Going To Let Your Toxic Ex Back In?

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Emily Heron Updated February 21, 2020 Alejandro Sotillet Emily Heron Updated February 21, 2020 Alejandro Sotillet Mercury went into retrograde on February 17th and will remain so until March 10th. This means that Mercury will appear to be moving backwards as we view it from the Earth. There will be issues with communication and technology, as always with a Mercury retrograde, as Mercury is in charge of these realms. You might notice that your WIFI is acting up or that text messages are coming in slowly. Since Mercury appears to…

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23 People Who Knew A Killer Before They Killed

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Emily Madriga Updated February 21, 2020 By Warren Wong *** A few years ago I hired a father-son handyman team to help me get my house ready to put on the market. Among other things, my outside doorknobs were in bad shape so they installed new ones. The dad seemed pretty nice, even did a little bit for free. On their 3rd and last day at my house, he was pretty fired up about a big job they were starting the next day. Three days later he killed his new…

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Trump’s Oscars rant? He just wants Hollywood to see he’s a star

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The US presidents tirade against Parasites best picture Oscar, preferring Sunset Boulevard and Gone With the Wind, masks his own frustration at being cold-shouldered by Tinseltown The only real surprise was what took him so long. Nearly two weeks after Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win the Oscar for best picture, hadnt actually seen Parasite: Was it good? I dont know. Clearly he is less concerned about the movies quality than its provenance. Here he is, trying to make America great again, and a foreign movie takes Hollywoods…

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Elizabeth Warren’s strong debate performance inspires best fundraising day yet

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Elizabeth Warren was roundly declared the victor of an often tempestuous Democratic debate, reviving her campaign after slipping in polls Elizabeth Warren has seemingly revived her flagging bid to become US president after widespread praise and a slew of much-needed campaign donations. Warren, who repeatedly ke Bloomberg during the Nevada debate, enjoyed the best fundraising day of her entire campaign on the back of the event. The Massachusetts senator raised $2.8m in donations on Wednesday, according to her campaign team. Warren was roundly declared the victor of an often tempestuous…

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Climate change may doom 1 in 3 species of plants and animals in the next 50 years

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(CNN)Take a moment to cherish your plants and appreciate the animals you see around you. Of the 538 species studied, 44% of them have already experienced an extinction in a particular local area. The researchers found that local extinction sites had larger and faster changes in the hottest yearly temperatures than those that did not. While many species were able to tolerate a moderate increase in maximum temperatures, 50% of the species had local extinctions if maximum temperatures increased by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. That number rose to 95%…

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Climate change may doom 1 in 3 species of plants and animals in the next 50 years

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(CNN)Take a moment to cherish your plants and appreciate the animals you see around you. Of the 538 species studied, 44% of them have already experienced an extinction in a particular local area. The researchers found that local extinction sites had larger and faster changes in the hottest yearly temperatures than those that did not. While many species were able to tolerate a moderate increase in maximum temperatures, 50% of the species had local extinctions if maximum temperatures increased by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. That number rose to 95%…

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Minamata review Johnny Depp attempts redemption in heartfelt look at disaster that struck Japanese town

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Johnny Depp plays real-life US photojournalist W Eugene Smith who travels to cover the story of mercury poisoning that caused horrendous disfigurements Minamata is not a masterpiece and there are one or two cliches here about western saviours and boozy, difficult, passionate journalists who occupy the perennial Venn diagram overlap between integrity and alcoholism. This movies producer-star Johnny Depp has form on this score, with his W Eugene Smith whose glory days were in the second world war and the decades following, working for Life magazine in that now-forgotten era…

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