Month: January 2021

Cabinet ministers are today expected to finalise plans to introduce quarantine hotels in the UK. Travellers arriving into the country from selected destinations would be required to complete their quarantine under strict supervision, paying up to £1,500 for their 10-day isolation period. Quarantine hotels, or ‘directed isolation’ facilities, are already in use across Asia, New Zealand and
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The government is making decisions on programme cuts to international aid programmes behind closed doors and without proper scrutiny or consultation, a group of international aid organisations has warned.  The NGO umbrella body Bond, Publish What You Fund, an NGO that campaigns for aid transparency, and Development Initiatives, an international development organisation that aims to
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour seen docked with the International Space Station on July 1, 2020. NASA A pair of investors are joining the first fully-private flight to the International Space Station — not as financial backers, but as the passengers flying along. Houston-based start-up Axiom Space on Tuesday unveiled that real estate investor Larry Connor
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Did Benny lose out on his political career? The latest case Bull Season 5 Episode 8 involved Benny being the face of a difficult federal trial defense for a young mother accused of aiding and abetting her extremist husband in an act of domestic terrorism. But Benny was all over the media, leading him to
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Before Mark Cuban became a billionaire in 1999, he was mostly broke in his early 20s — sleeping on the floor of an apartment he shared with six others, frequently coming home to his lights turned off and having his credit cards cut. But Cuban remained motivated by the thought of retirement and financial independence. In fact, “my whole goal when I
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Palmaïa — The House of Aïa A paradise of eco-nuances and intangible delights cocooned between an undisturbed jungle and the glistening Caribbean Sea.” Something that, until now, you’d need to travel to Tulum to find on Mexico’s Riviera Maya—and as anyone who’s been there can tell you, visiting Tulum can at times be an expensive, inconvenient
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serpentwithfeet has announced his album DEACON with a video for the single “Fellowship.” The track was co-written and co-produced with Sampha and Lil Silva; check out the Kordae Jatafa Henry–directed clip for “Fellowship” below. DEACON, the follow-up to serpentwithfeet’s 2018 debut LP soil, is due out March 26 via Secretly Canadian. “​I originally approached this
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Sony/Screen Gems Escape Room 2 will now open on Jan. 7, 2022. The sequel to the $155M-plus horror film was recently taken off the theatrical release calendar. Previously Sony had the movie set to open on Dec. 30, 2020, then prior to that, Aug. 14, and then even before that date, April 17. The microbudget feature is
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(CNN) — The race is heating up to produce the first supersonic passenger aircraft to enter commercial service in more than 50 years. US planemaker Aerion, whose AS2 jet promises to fly New York to London in 4.5 hours, is building a massive new global headquarters in Florida ahead of production beginning on the supersonic
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