By Mark BBC Music reporter Grime star Skepta has beaten the likes of David Bowie, Radiohead and The 1975 to win the Mercury Prize. He won the £25,000 award for self-released album Konnichiwa, which covers topics including police harassment and his anger at British politics. The record, described by the NME as a “landmark in […]
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BBC News : Arctic ice cover in 2016 reached the second lowest minimum on record, tied with 2007. The sea-ice extent on 10 September stood at 4.14 million sq km, some way short of the 3.39 million sq km record low in 2012. Arctic sea-ice cover grows each autumn and winter, and shrinks each spring
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BBC News : US safety regulators have announced a formal recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after reports of fires caused by faulty batteries. The South Korean tech giant had already launched a voluntary recall after user complaints about ‘exploding’ phones. According to Samsung, the problem affects 2.5 million devices globally, including 1 million
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BBC News : The Trump campaign has acknowledged in a statement that President Obama was born in the US. The Republican candidate had been a leader of the “birther” movement that questioned Hawaii-born Mr Obama’s citizenship. But his campaign now accuses his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of introducing the “smear” during the 2008 Democratic nomination
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By Claire Marshall BBC Environment Correspondent More than 50 conservation groups say the “policy-driven” intensification of farming is a significant driver of nature loss in the UK. The State of Nature report assessed 8,000 UK species and found that one in 10 are threatened with extinction. More than half of farmland birds (56%) including the turtle
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EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reassured that the bloc is not at risk from Brexit, according to BBC News. And he warned the UK that it could expect access to the EU’s internal market without free movement of people. There could be no “a la carte access”. Mr Juncker also called for the formation of
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By Gautam Prabhu Last week at its “See you on the 7th” event, Apple announced that it will be releasing iOS 10 to the public on September 13. We have received a lot of queries from readers asking us at what time iOS 10 will be available. Since 2010, Apple had released a major software update
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By Alice Park, Time.com A new review confirms the benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs in lowering heart disease risk, and finds that side effects and risks of the medications are exaggerated, discouraging many who might need the drugs from taking them. Statins have been a major boon to treating the leading cause of death among Americans, heart disease.
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By Dan Bova : Health.com This is what this ancient form of arthritis feels like—and how to stop the pain. Years ago, when I was editor of a men’s magazine, waking up with a pounding head after a night out wasn’t exactly unusual. (Hey, those booze reviews weren’t going to research themselves.) At first I thought
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ByLisa Zamovsky : Health.com Here are the worst habits for your heart, and how to avoid them. Bad habits for your heart Everyone wants to have a healthy heart. Still, cardiovascular disease affects more than 1 in 3 adults in the United States. The good news is that some simple, everyday habits can make a
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