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A locust outbreak of biblical proportions is spreading from Sudan and Eritrea along both sides of Red Sea to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has warned. Huge swarms of locusts are about to descend on Egypt and around the…
In 2018, the Republican tax cut bill delivered a major profit boost to … banks. Banks last year made a record $236.7 billion in profits, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said on Thursday. Had the tax law not been enacted,…
Desus Nice is the nom de guerre of Daniel Baker, whose creative partner, Joel Martinez, operates as the Kid Mero. Because the two of them are late-night talk-show hosts, it is tempting to describe them as comedians. But the freshness…
Charley Pride, who was born in Mississippi, in 1938, and has spent much of his adult life in Texas, is one of the finest vocalists in country-music history, and among the genre’s most successful recording artists. In the early nineteen-seventies,…
We were watching a play about infidelity. It was 1984, and my girlfriend and I had been living together for a couple of years. We had descended the sixty-odd blocks to see Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” at the Plymouth…
Irish and international sports stars, including Robbie Keane and Shay Given, have been backing an online campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer services. The campaign, which originated in aid of the HEADstrong Foundation in the US, sees people…
