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Shoppers have revealed the formula for the perfect 2020 Christmas advert – and there isn’t a fir tree or snowy scene in sight. With less than three weeks to go until the annual round of Christmas commercials hit TV screens, consumers are shunning traditional festive icons like snowmen or sleighs. Instead, 55 per cent want […]
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Edson Barboza finally has his first win at featherweight. The veteran Brazilian came away on the wrong end of a split decision in his 145-pound debut so he had something to prove while facing Makwan Amirkhani in the UFC Fight Island 5 co-main event. Looking better than ever on the feet, Barboza blasted Amirkhani with […]
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Good news being slim on the ground right now, I greeted rumours of Big Jo’s arrival with a sense of joy. Big Jo may sound a bit like a terrifically handy neighbour with massive hands who you could trust to hammer up a flat-pack shed, but is actually a capacious new pizza parlour that opened […]
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HONG KONG/BEIJING – China’s securities regulator is probing a potential conflict of interest in fintech giant Ant Group’s planned $35 billion stock listing, delaying approval for what could be the world’s largest IPO, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is looking into the role of Alipay, […]
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Will include the Suburban and Sci-fi DLC. Developer Whoop Group’s ridiculously charming wooden train set builder Tracks will be tooting its whistle and trundling onto Switch this November. Tracks: The Train Set Game, as it’s more formally known, takes its cue from the classic wooden train sets created by the likes of Brio; as such, […]
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An autistic boy was left in need of life support after being given a drink believed to have been mixed with bleach. Ronnie Phillips, 12, left his Crawley home with his 11-year-old brother on Friday night while their mum was sleeping. It is believed the boys met up with some older children who gave Ronnie […]
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Cory Sandhagen wanted to make a statement against Marlon Moraes at UFC Fight Island 5, and he did all that and more. After losing the No. 1 contender spot to Aljamain Sterling in his previous fight, Sandhagen delivered a pitch-perfect performance that ended with a spectacular wheel-kick knockout at the 1:03 mark of the second […]
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You can ripen a not-quite-there papaya overnight simply by scoring the skin a millimetre or two deep from top to bottom in several lines. The next day, it will be orange, ripe and ready to eat. If you have the opposite problem and your papaya is over-ripe, it may be best to cook it, cutting […]
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BEIJING – German premium automaker Audi AG NSUG.DE said on Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s state-owned FAW Group to launch a venture to make premium electric vehicles (EVs). Audi has a long partnership with FAW, which is based in the city of Changchun in the northeast of China, the world’s […]
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‘Tis almost October, and to celebrate the onset of this most sinister of seasons, Sony is giving PlayStation Plus subscribers a touch of the gothic in the form of Life is Strange developer Dontnod’s action-RPG Vampyr. Less spookily, Need for Speed: Payback is option number two. Vampyr drops players onto the fog-shrouded, open-world streets of […]
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