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Antarctica's A-68: Is the world's biggest iceberg about to break up?

The 5,100 sq km behemoth which broke away from Antarctica in 2017 drops its own large chunk of ice.





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'Bigger and brighter' supermoon graces night sky – video

The largest, brightest full moon in nearly seven decades started to show on Tuesday evening over Europe, Latin America, the US and the Middle East. This year, the supermoon was expected to come nearer to Earth than at any time since 1948, astronomers have said. A supermoon occurs when the timing of a full moon overlaps with the point in the moon's 28-day orbit that is closest to Earth, and about every 14th full moon is a supermoon. If skies are clear, this time the full moon will appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual, according to Nasa

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The Half-Life effect on PC-VR is the biggest Steam has ever seen

A big jump, but if you were expecting a jolt that would “save” the PC-VR space, well...




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NFL experts pick best matchups, biggest winners from schedule release

Which games should you circle on your calendar? Which rookie debut will be the most interesting?




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Digital-friendly recession: How Big Tech got even bigger in the midst of a market meltdown

Many analysts expected the stocks to fall back to earth when the next downturn came




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TV Throws Its Biggest Ad Pitch at a Madison Avenue Filled With Roadblocks

Linda Yaccarino, the hard-charging ad-sales chief of NBCUniversal. will soon be running into uncharted territory. In recent years, Yaccarino has railed against Nielsen and taken a public swipe at Facebook. She has urged advertisers to consider running fewer commercials on NBC and to  work to make the ones that remain more ambitious and interesting. On […]




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Tiger King becomes one of Netflix's biggest ever shows as viewing figures surge during lockdown

Show about the extraordinary incidents at Joe Exotic's zoo has proved hugely popular




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Liam Payne drops biggest hint yet that One Direction will reform for 10-year anniversary

The singer said the milestone would be a "very special moment".




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BBC unveils 'biggest push on education in its history' with new learning programme for kids at home

It's the BBC's 'biggest push on education in its history' and kicks off Monday, April 20




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These will be the biggest post-pandemic wedding trends

From statement veils to dial-in guests, we tap into the future of weddings





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The biggest threat to Brazil's coronavirus response is its own president, says The Lancet 




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Tesla posts bigger-than-expected loss, bigger-than-expected revenue [Updated]

Company expects to be cash flow positive in the next two quarters.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the globe has been suspended for the foreseeable future.




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Newcastle takeover latest: The 'biggest decision' for new owners, according to Jamie Carragher

Newcastle United's prospective new owners face a huge call over whether to stick with current boss Steve Bruce or hire a new manager, according to Jamie Carragher.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the globe has been suspended for the time being.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the globe has been suspended for the time being.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must buy in career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and much of the professional football across the glob has been suspended for the foreseeable future.




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FIFA 20 wonderkids: Top 100 young players with biggest potential you must sign on career mode

So you're cooped up indoors and professional football has been suspended for the foreseeable future.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 wonderkids, cheap players with biggest potential in career mode

With football across the globe on hold, it seems the perfect time to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 career mode wonderkids, cheap players with biggest potential

With football across the globe on pause, it seems the perfect time to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players: The top 100 wonderkids, cheap career mode players with biggest potential

With football across the globe on hold, now seems the perfect time to load up a new​ FIFA 20 career mode save.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 wonderkids, cheap career mode players with biggest potential

So you're cooped up indoors and most of the professional football fixtures across the globe have been suspended for the forseeable future.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 career mode wonderkids, cheap bargains with biggest potential

So you're cooped up indoors and most of the professional football fixtures across the globe have been suspended for the forseeable future.




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FIFA 20 best young players: Top 100 wonderkids, cheap career mode bargains with biggest potential

So you're cooped up indoors and most of the professional football fixtures across the globe have been suspended for the time being.




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Why Takumi Minamino is well-equipped to pass his biggest test yet at Liverpool

Exclusive: The Japan star has been backed to build on a stunning first impression at Anfield





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PayPal just struck L.A.'s biggest ever tech deal

PayPal is buying Honey, whose popular browser extension is used to compare prices at online shopping sites, for $4 billion.




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Bank of England warns coronavirus could cause biggest economic slump in 300 years

The Bank of England said the economy could contract by as much as 3% in the first quarter.




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COVID-19 tests are far from perfect, but accuracy isn’t the biggest problem

Expanding coronavirus testing is one of the most important tasks public health officials are tackling right now. But questions over accuracy of the two main types of tests have rightly caused concern.




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Australia faces biggest economic contraction since Great Depression, Reserve Bank warns

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe warns Australia's unemployment rate is likely to hit 10 per cent by June, and even though Australia will recover, the coronavirus emergency "will cast a shadow over our economy for some time to come".




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Apple’s biggest product since the iPhone

APPLE could be set to make its biggest new product announcement since the iPhone, with the company believed to be working on a game changer.




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Indonesia reports 533 new COVID-19 cases, biggest in a day

Indonesia reported on Saturday 533 new coronavirus infections, the biggest daily increase, taking the total number to 13,645, health ministry official Achmad Yurianto said.




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Immunity products: "This is the world's biggest ever advertising campaign, bar none"

It is "inconceivable" that immunity will not remain high on the list of health priorities when this pandemic ends and now is the time to create more "convincing experiences" to ensure trial turns into adoption, according to food and drink research and branding experts.



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Face masks will be an even bigger part of L.A. life as reopening begins

Here is where masks are currently required, as well as proposals that would dramatically increase face-covering requirements.




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Japan's overtime hours take biggest tumble amid virus outbreak




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Banning cars won’t solve America’s bigger transportation problem: Long trips

Cars are a fact of life for the vast majority of Americans, whether we’re commuting to work or traveling to just about anywhere. But a new development outside Phoenix is looking to change that. Culdesac Tempe, a 1,000-person rental community, aims to promote a new type of walkable neighborhood by banning residents from driving or…

       




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Force India: Biggest steps will come in Europe

Force India does not expect to make its biggest development strides until the European season as it continues to recover from its late start to 2015




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Brazil’s biggest economic risk is complacency

Brazil’s economy has endured a difficult few years: after a deep recession in 2015-2016, GDP grew by just over 1 percent annually in 2017-2019. But things are finally looking up, with the International Monetary Fund forecasting a 2.2-2.3 percent growth in 2020-21. The challenge now is to convert this cyclical recovery into a robust long-term…

       




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The Biggest News from Brisbane: China to Chair the G-20 in 2016


The biggest news at the end of the Brisbane G-20 on Sunday will be to confirm for the first time in an official G-20 communique that China will indeed chair the G-20 Summit in 2016. 

Coming on the heals of a momentous week of great power realignments and breakthroughs at the APEC Summit in Beijing and other one-on-one meetings of heads of state, the timing of China’s presidency of the G-20 Summit in 2016 could not be a better follow-up to this week’s accomplishments. It puts China in play as a global leader at a critical moment in geopolitical relations and in terms of several global agendas that will culminate in the next two years. It also provides an unusual opportunity for the U.S. and China to collaborate on a broader set of societal issues affecting everyone everywhere building on their agreements this week.

One of the reasons why the G-20 Summits have yet to realize their full potential is that the leaders-level summits have been captured by the finance ministers’ agendas and discourse. Leaders at G-20 Summits have individually and collectively failed to connect with their publics; ordinary citizens do not see their urgent issues being dealt with. Exchange rates, current account balances, reserve ratios for banks, and the role of the IMF do not resonate with public anxieties over their lives and livelihoods.

Three streams of global issues will culminate in 2015:  the forging of a “post-2015 agenda” on sustainable development with a new set of global goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the agreement on  “financing for development” (FFD) arrangements and mechanisms to support the new post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be realized in 2030; and the achievement of a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by the end of 2015, which looks more promising now than it did a week ago.

What has been learned from previous global goal setting processes is that building on the momentum for the goal-setting process in 2015 and carrying it directly into the mobilization of national political commitment, resources and policies for implementation is vital. China as a member of the G-20 troika in 2015 through 2017 will be in crucial position of bridging the goal-setting and implementation phases of the new SDGs for 2030 to be adopted at the United Nations in September of next year.

China, as one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, will be in a pivotal position to create complementarities between the G-20 forum for the major economies and the U.N. as a forum for all countries for this critical period of setting the global sustainability agenda for the next fifteen years.  

The post-2015 agenda for social, economic and environmental sustainability is of high interest to the United States, and the new China-U.S. climate change agreement in Beijing this week augurs well for collaboration between the two countries on the broader agenda. White House Chief of Staff John Podesta was on the high-level panel for the post-2015 development agenda last year, which signals high U.S. policy involvement. The Shanghai Institute for International Studies has argued in a recent paper for the U.N. Development Program that “the G-20 and the U.N. could have certain complementary roles. The development issue could become the one linking the major work of both the U.N. and the G-20.”  

The world should welcome the unique role that China can now play in bringing the international community and the global system of international institutions together in charting a common path forward building on the progress made in the various summits this week. 

     
 
 




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Brazil’s biggest economic risk is complacency

Brazil’s economy has endured a difficult few years: after a deep recession in 2015-2016, GDP grew by just over 1 percent annually in 2017-2019. But things are finally looking up, with the International Monetary Fund forecasting a 2.2-2.3 percent growth in 2020-21. The challenge now is to convert this cyclical recovery into a robust long-term…

       




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The Biggest News from Brisbane: China to Chair the G-20 in 2016


The biggest news at the end of the Brisbane G-20 on Sunday will be to confirm for the first time in an official G-20 communique that China will indeed chair the G-20 Summit in 2016. 

Coming on the heals of a momentous week of great power realignments and breakthroughs at the APEC Summit in Beijing and other one-on-one meetings of heads of state, the timing of China’s presidency of the G-20 Summit in 2016 could not be a better follow-up to this week’s accomplishments. It puts China in play as a global leader at a critical moment in geopolitical relations and in terms of several global agendas that will culminate in the next two years. It also provides an unusual opportunity for the U.S. and China to collaborate on a broader set of societal issues affecting everyone everywhere building on their agreements this week.

One of the reasons why the G-20 Summits have yet to realize their full potential is that the leaders-level summits have been captured by the finance ministers’ agendas and discourse. Leaders at G-20 Summits have individually and collectively failed to connect with their publics; ordinary citizens do not see their urgent issues being dealt with. Exchange rates, current account balances, reserve ratios for banks, and the role of the IMF do not resonate with public anxieties over their lives and livelihoods.

Three streams of global issues will culminate in 2015:  the forging of a “post-2015 agenda” on sustainable development with a new set of global goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the agreement on  “financing for development” (FFD) arrangements and mechanisms to support the new post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be realized in 2030; and the achievement of a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by the end of 2015, which looks more promising now than it did a week ago.

What has been learned from previous global goal setting processes is that building on the momentum for the goal-setting process in 2015 and carrying it directly into the mobilization of national political commitment, resources and policies for implementation is vital. China as a member of the G-20 troika in 2015 through 2017 will be in crucial position of bridging the goal-setting and implementation phases of the new SDGs for 2030 to be adopted at the United Nations in September of next year.

China, as one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, will be in a pivotal position to create complementarities between the G-20 forum for the major economies and the U.N. as a forum for all countries for this critical period of setting the global sustainability agenda for the next fifteen years.  

The post-2015 agenda for social, economic and environmental sustainability is of high interest to the United States, and the new China-U.S. climate change agreement in Beijing this week augurs well for collaboration between the two countries on the broader agenda. White House Chief of Staff John Podesta was on the high-level panel for the post-2015 development agenda last year, which signals high U.S. policy involvement. The Shanghai Institute for International Studies has argued in a recent paper for the U.N. Development Program that “the G-20 and the U.N. could have certain complementary roles. The development issue could become the one linking the major work of both the U.N. and the G-20.”  

The world should welcome the unique role that China can now play in bringing the international community and the global system of international institutions together in charting a common path forward building on the progress made in the various summits this week. 

      
 
 




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Make way for mayors: Why the UK’s biggest power shift may not be the June 8 general election

United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 has threatened to overshadow another important vote that could reshape the landscape of urban leadership in England. On May 4, voters in six regions, including the large metros of Manchester and Liverpool, will head to the polls for the very…

       




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As the venture capital game gets bigger, the Midwest keeps missing out

Those working to accelerate economic growth in the Heartland must face some stark realities. The Great Lakes region continues to export wealth to coastal economies, even as investment leaders try to equalize growth between the coasts and the Heartland. The region sees only a tiny fraction of venture capital (VC) deals, despite producing one quarter…

       




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Washington Metro closure is a symptom of a much bigger problem

All over North America we are letting our infrastructure rot and short-circuit.




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30 Biggest Stories of the Year in Animal Conservation and Extinctions

The good, the bad, and the we-can-fix-its of the year all gathered up in one place.




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Can comics solve our world's biggest problems?

The world had a bunch of big goals it didn't succeed in making by this year. Now the UN is creating an even bigger set of goals - finally taking the environment into account. But how to educate the world about the goals? Turn to comics.




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Biggest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Exposed

PNC, Citi, and UBS are the top three financial enablers of mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a new report by Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club that ranks ten of the world's largest banks.These