Berlin’s ‘laughing stock’ airport due to open after nine years of delays
Berlin’s new airport is scheduled to finally open today – after nine years of delays and ballooning costs.
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Coronavirus: Carlisle among more than a dozen English regions now in Tier 2 lockdown measures
Carlisle and its surrounding areas have joined a raft of new regions in England that have moved from Tier 1 to Tier 2 coronavirus restrictions.
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US election 2020: ‘Knucklehead’ Trump won the rust belt vote, but bitter divisions remain
I remember election night 2016 well. I was in the bar of the Holiday Inn, Johnstown in the heart of the Pennsylvanian rust belt.
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US election 2020: Could black voters swing the election?
The number of black Americans eligible to vote has spiked to 30 million and more than a third of them live in the key battleground states.
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Hundreds arrested for ‘running brothels’ as sex workers say it’s the laws that are criminal
Hundreds of people have been arrested for alleged brothel-keeping offences in the last four years under laws that sex workers claim put them at risk.
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Coronavirus: Thousands of jobseekers scammed in surge of fake employment listings
Thousands of jobseekers are being scammed in a surge of fake job adverts, as fraudsters exploit the rise in unemployment.
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UK weather: Halloween washout as Met Office warns of heavy rain, strong winds and flooding
Large parts of the UK will be hit by heavy rain and strong winds this Halloween weekend, which risk flooding, power cuts and travel delays, the Met Office warns.
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Exclusive: Damon Albarn on Elton John, Donald Trump and the need for a ‘live music prescription’
Twenty years ago, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett created a visionary concept: the virtual band.
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Too scared to go back inside their homes: Aftermath of Turkey’s deadly earthquake
The neighbourhood of Bayrakli in the Aegean city of Izmir is new compared to the rest of the century-old city.
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