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During his time in office, President Joe Biden boasted that ‘America is back.’  On Saturday, America was relegated to the back row. Biden’s ‘super lame duck’ status was on full display when he was positioned in the back and off to the side in the APEC leaders’ family photo in Lima.Chinese President Xi Jinping – who Biden will sit down with later Saturday – appeared front-and-center alongside the host country’s leader, President Dina Boluarte of Peru. Leaders wore matching brown scarves for the photo – as it’s an APEC tradition to sport the host’s native dress. The 81-year-old also left all the leaders waiting for at…

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By Dailymail.com Reporter and Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor and Wires Published: 16:47 EDT, 24 May 2024 | Updated: 16:48 EDT, 24 May 2024 Advertisement Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will transfer power to his deputy as he goes under the knife at Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday night. The 70-year-old Pentagon chief will undergo a medical procedure for bladder issues and will be ‘unable to perform his functions’. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will therefore take over temporarily and act as Secretary of Defense. The Pentagon said the operation was not related to his battle with cancer, which…

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Facebook is partnering with two powerful federal agencies to identify and eliminate foreign meddling on the social media platform in the lead-up to the 2020 election.Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview on CBS This Morning  that the embattled company has ‘war rooms in place’ and ‘a working relationship with the FBI and homeland security,’ that are all meant to combat any attempts to interfere with the upcoming election.   The Facebook COO did not actually detail what Facebook, the FBI or homeland security was doing to combat this issue, but did seem to suggest that those federal agencies were somehow to blame in…

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It was rogue BBC journalist Martin Bashir who ended the royal career of Diana’s personal chauffeur Steve Davies. But it would take a quarter of a century before he discovered that, learning the truth by chance from an episode of The Crown.The driver was frozen out of the Princess’s inner circle at Kensington Palace in late 1995. ‘It happened overnight,’ he says. ‘From driving her everywhere I was banned from the wheel of her car. After the Christmas break I was told she didn’t want me near it, I wasn’t even allowed to wash or hoover it.‘I was still on…

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The European Union will demand continued fishing rights in British waters as the Labour government seeks to renegotiate a fair trade deal, its Brexit negotiator has told MEPs.’We have to ensure continued access to United Kingdom waters for EU fishing fleets,’ Maroš Šefčovič told the European Parliament.The bloc’s fishing quota in British waters was slashed by a quarter in the wake of Brexit, but fishermen on the continent were given access to certain coastal waters subject to rolling agreements.With the existing deal set to expire in 2026, British fishermen and government officials fear that Labour could concede rights in exchange for a…

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Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin responded to a wild joke about Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally by endorsing Kamala Harris.The pop stars were just some of the celebrities to throw their support behind Harris after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe compared the Caribbean Island to ‘garbage’ during Trump’s raucous rally on Sunday.While poking fun at celebrity Democrats, Hinchcliffe’s offbeat remark about Puerto Rico even stunned the MAGA faithful in one of the the world’s most famous arenas.’There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,’ he said.The joke received a tepid response from the crowd,…

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NASA has captured the moment the ‘Great Halloween Comet’ was swallowed by the sun.The agency’s probe witnessed the comet soar directly into the sun’s fiery orbit and disintegrated without a trace Monday.Astronomers discovered C/2024 S1 ATLAS in September, giving it the nickname due to it making a close approach days before Halloween.Models predicted that the comet would glow brighter than Venus by the holiday, but on October 24, ATLAS flew past Earth and swung around the sun. NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was the last to see the comet as it soared within 750,000 miles of the sun and disappeared.Karl Battams,…

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The Mayans believed in many gods. They were also highly literate, architecturally advanced and developed a system of mathematics that included one of the earliest examples of zero.Today, in their former Yucatan heartland – and especially along the Caribbean coast near Mexico’s heaving Cancun – the worship is focused on one thing and one lucrative thing only: tourism. The maths is all about the bottom line.Most of the architecture isn’t exactly subtle, but what an extraordinary stretch of coast it is, going on and on for nearly 100 miles, punctuated by huge hotels, mainly all-inclusive, sunk into powdery white sand.It…

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I’m an expert when it comes to sleep – or should I say not sleeping. An insomniac for decades, I’ve tried everything from hypnotherapy to acupuncture, including sleep retreats at hotels where I’ve even been hooked up to numerous cables overnight to test my sleep quality. All to no avail. These days, I accept that sleep will always be a struggle, even with the eye mask and white noise machine I always take on my travels.But my ears pricked up when I heard that The Mandeville, in a quiet part of Marylebone, was London’s first hotel to equip some of its rooms…

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By Jowena Riley Published: 12:53 EDT, 17 September 2024 | Updated: 13:23 EDT, 17 September 2024 Domino’s £4 lunch deal is now facing stiff competition as a rival fast food chain has introduced a ‘fully customisable’ meal deal for almost the same price. Pizza Hut has launched a series of incredible ‘Hut Lunch’ deals ranging from £3.99 to £7.99, and includes multiple customisable variations that allow customers to fully personalise their lunch experience.Six different mix and match options are currently available, and each lunch deal can be upgraded with a 500ml drink for an additional £1.00.The Pizza Lunch Meal for One…

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