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New York police officer who 'hit' man in social distancing arrest loses badge

A New York police officer caught on video pointing a stun gun at a man and grappling him to the ground over an alleged social distancing violation has been stripped of his badge.




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Captain Tom Moore awarded with gold Blue Peter badge for being 'beacon of light'

Blue Peter has honoured Captain Tom Moore with a gold badge for his fundraising efforts.




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Seinfeld stand-up special suffers from a pandemic of bad timing, says Chris Knight

Comedian takes on air travel, restaurants, ball games and other pastimes of the distant past that was 2019






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Ajit Pai uses bad data to claim ISPs are deploying broadband to everyone

Pai’s “baffling” report ignores broadband gaps and high prices, Democrats say.




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'A bad time to be alive': Mass extinction 444 million years ago linked to loss of oxygen in Earth's oceans

'By expanding our thinking of how oceans behaved in the past, we could gain some insights into oceans today,' says scientist at Stanford University




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TD expects U.S. retail banking business to take $1.1B charge for bad loans

Toronto-Dominion Bank says it expects to take a provision for credit losses related to its U.S. retail banking business of roughly $1.1 billion (US$800 million) in its second quarter due to the pandemic.




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Brian May has bad news for anyone who wants a 'Bohemian Rhapsody' sequel

Who wants to make sequels forever?




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Man United post-Ferguson signings: The good, the bad and the ugly

It has been seven years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, and Man United have been busy (if not always successful) in the transfer market ever since.




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One in three nurses say mental health has become 'very bad' during pandemic

A lack of PPE is concern among nurses





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Better Call Saul: Vince Gilligan admits he initially didn't want to bring Breaking Bad's Lalo back

'Man, I was wrong'




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Sopranos and Bad Boys actor Joe Pantoliano suffers 'severe head injury' in car accident

Actor was struck by vehicle during family walk




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Captain Tom Moore receives gold Blue Peter badge after raising more than £30 million for NHS

Captain Moore was presented the award by his grandchildren




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Brian Howe, hard rock singer who fronted Bad Company, dies aged 66

Singer who also worked with Ted Nugent and Megadeth dies at Florida home of a heart attack

Brian Howe, the singer who fronted the British rock supergroup Bad Company for eight years, has died aged 66. He had a heart attack at his Florida home.

Howe’s manager Paul Easton said: “It is with deep and profound sadness that we announce the untimely passing of a loving father, friend and musical icon.”

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Fear of flying foxes: coronavirus is topping off a bad year for Australia's bats

They’ve faced drought, extreme heat and bushfires, and now they have to deal with a new paranoia courtesy of the pandemic

Australia’s bats are turning up in increasing numbers in city suburbs. But as they search for food, they’re bringing for some a newfound paranoia thanks to a global pandemic that likely sprang from one of their overseas relatives.

In Ingham in far north Queensland, an influx of more than 200,000 little red flying foxes in January was variously described as a “swarm”, a “tornado” and an “infestation”.

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Brian Howe dead: Bad Company frontman dies of cardiac arrest aged 66

Bad Company frontman Brian Howe has died at the age of 66, a family member has confirmed.




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Coronavirus: Stressed, depressed, and feeling bad? You're not alone: Where to get free help online

As sheltering in place stretches into weeks for many, anxiety, isolation, stress and cabin fever are common. There's free mental health help online.

      





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Uefa Champions League decision good for Chelsea and Manchester United... but bad for Arsenal and Tottenham

Arsenal and Tottenham have been dealt a blow to their hopes of Champions League qualification after Uefa confirmed their guidelines for awarding places next season.




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Why Uefa's Champions League decision is bad news for Tottenham

Tottenham's Champions League hopes received a blow on Thursday as Uefa confirmed their guidelines for awarding places next season.




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Eredivisie cancelled: Why this is bad news for Liverpool ahead of Premier League decision

The Eredivisie season has been cancelled, with the title, relegation out of and promotion into the league scrapped.




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Liverpool star Mohamed Salah's 2018 World Cup showing badly affected by image rights row, says official

Mohamed Salah's performance at the 2018 World Cup was negatively influenced by his row with the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), a former member of the organisation has claimed.




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LaLiga badges: The history behind the iconic Spanish football crests of Barcelona, Real Madrid and more clubs

Every club has one, and every fan thinks theirs is the best.




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Health officials want families to say 'Shisha, No Thanks' over cancer fears. But is smoking shisha bad for you?

Health authorities in Western Sydney want shisha smoking phased out over fears it causes cancer, saying research shows 45 minutes of smoking flavoured tobacco from a water pipe is the equivalent of smoking 100 cigarettes.




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Aged care royal commission has had a third of the coverage of banks' bad behaviour. It doesn't add up

The theory in media circles is that the banking royal commission was big news because "everyone has a bank account". There seems to be no corresponding extrapolation for aged care, writes Anne Connolly.




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Is the NookPhone good or bad for your Animal Crossing island?

No, you're not hallucinating and this isn't a late April Fool's joke. That is in fact, the NookPhone from Animal Crossing: New Horizons at the top of this post. It's safe to say that the game has really taken off in the two weeks since its release. It's the perfect salve for our troubled era, and a great way to kill time when you're stuck at home.




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Erykah Badu Will Take On Jill Scott In Next Verzuz Battle



The queen of Neo-Soul will be decided on May 9.




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Care company launch own We Care badge to support workers during coronavirus pandemic

A North East based care provider, Wellburn Care Homes, has launched their own We Care badge aiming to show support for care workers.




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'It's going to be very bad': COVID-19 fears for Australia's neighbours

One of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, Johnson & Johnson, is racing to make a billion vaccines. Its chief scientist is most worried about the impact of coronavirus on developing nations.




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5 Home Exercises That Are Keeping Badminton Ace Ashwini Ponnappa Fit During Lockdown




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Vinay Menon: How can I ever mow the lawn after Queen’s Brian May badly injured his buttocks while gardening?


The COVID-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reprioritize, writes Vinay Menon. And if one of my childhood heroes is now coping with mangled butt cheeks from a yard mishap, isn’t that a divine sign to shun the Greenworks tools in my shed until further notice?




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Bon stress, Bad stress: un cercle infernal

Jean-Yves Dionne explique ce qu’est le stress – le bon comme le moins bon – et propose des façons de mieux le gérer.




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No, the Covid Fight Isn’t Like WWII—And That’s Bad News

Everyone’s favorite comparison should leave us pessimistic.




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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in hospital with infection, Supreme Court says

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday with an infection caused by a gallstone, the Supreme Court said.




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Gujarat FDCA initiates action against 2 companies based in Patan and Ahmedabad for illegal sale of drugs




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Alleged International Credit Card Trafficker “Badb” Extradited from France to the United States

Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, aka “BadB” of Moscow, an alleged international credit card trafficker thought to be one of the most prolific sellers of stolen credit card data, has been extradited from France to the United States to face criminal charges filed in the District of Columbia and in the Northern District of Georgia.



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Barbados National Sentenced to Prison for Using Stolen Identities to Obtain Tax Refunds

Andrew J. Watts, a Barbados national, was sentenced in Chicago by U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall to 114 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of just under $1.7 million for devising and executing a stolen identity federal income tax refund fraud scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.



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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Pharma Day*

A challenge You are passionate about providing an intervention (drug or device) to a group of patients who can’t access the current options due to availability or pricing. You could could go the philanthropic route to pay for the interventions. You could work towards regulation to apply downward pressure on pricing. No matter what, you have to

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ASEAN banks prepare for flood of bad loans amid coronavirus havoc




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How swamped preprint servers are blocking bad coronavirus research




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Why It's So Hard to Junk Bad Decisions—Edging Closer to Understanding “Sunk Cost”

Humans, rats and mice all exhibit the decision-making phenomenon, but new research suggests not all choices are equally vulnerable to it




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Why Authoritarianism is Bad for Science, But Bigotry is Even Worse

There have been many protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (now Act), and there will be many more. This piece of legislation strikes at the heart of the Constitution, seeking to make India another country altogether. It is thus that so many people from so many different walks of life have raised their voices against [...]




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Standing With Gandhi in Ahmedabad, Hindustan Times

On 30th January I was in Ahmedabad, a city that was central to Mahatma Gandhi’s life and work. It was here that he established the most celebrated of his ashrams, on the banks of the Sabarmati River; here that he revised and refined his moral and political philosophy; here that he conceived and planned the [...]




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Why is the United States So Bad at Foreign Policy?

Stephen Walt writes that the United States' unusual historical experience, geographic isolation, large domestic market, and general ignorance have weakened its ability to make viable foreign-policy strategies.




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The Low-Yield Nuclear Warhead: A Dangerous Weapon Based on Bad Strategic Thinking

In the unintuitive world of nuclear weapons strategy, it’s often difficult to identify which decisions can serve to decrease the risk of a devastating nuclear conflict and which might instead increase it. Such complexity stems from the very foundation of the field: Nuclear weapons are widely seen as bombs built never to be used. Historically, granular—even seemingly mundane—decisions about force structure, research efforts, or communicated strategy have confounded planners, sometimes causing the opposite of the intended effect.




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Shutting down fruit vegetables groceries amid peak heat and Ramzan pushes Ahmedabadis to edge

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Commissioner Vijay Nehra was already pushed into a quarantine following the rising numbers of patients in the city and Additional Chief Secretary Rajiv Gupta was brought in as in charge of the fight against Covid in Ahmedabad while CEO of Gujarat Maritime Board Mukesh Kumar was brought in as the incharge Commissioner.




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'It is a pity that PPPs are not working too well...India badly needs infrastructure and half of that investment has to come through PPPs'

Gustavo Manuel speaks about killing of soldier in London, business with India and football.