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Cameron Payne has lived on the fringe of the NBA for a few seasons now, unable to carve out a role. The Oklahoma City draft pick from 2015 has also played for the Bulls and Cavaliers, plus had a camp invite from the Raptors at the start of this season but didn’t make the squad […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has been devastating on employment, as many have faced redundancies, put on the government’s furlough scheme or been ineligible for it and left to apply for Universal Credit. Latest figures show that around a quarter of the UK’s workforce has been placed on the government’s job retention scheme, although it’s estimated that […]
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Oil prices rose more than 1% on Wednesday following a drawdown in U.S. crude inventories from record highs and a string of positive manufacturing data, but a surge in coronavirus cases tempered gains. Brent crude LCOc1 rose 76 cents, or 1.8%, to settle at $42.03 a barrel. U.S. crude CLc1 rose 55 cents, or 1.4%, […]
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare added a new map with this week’s mid-season update – and it’s got a rat problem. Exploding rats, that is. The Cheshire Park map, a classic three-lane map set in a lovely part of London, has a cool Easter egg it didn’t take the Call of Duty community long to […]
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Along with knitting, puzzles and baking, gardening has become another popular pandemic pastime. The sale of seeds has skyrocketed, and regardless of whether people have a giant backyard or a tiny fire escape in the city, they’ve been getting into the weeds (mostly to pull them). Perhaps you want to go one step further, and […]
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NBA players have voiced concerns about the safety of the NBA’s proposed campus/bubble on the Walt Disney World property in Florida. They are not alone — team staff headed to the NBA’s restart in Orlando have their own worries, and that is playing out at team facilities around the league. Team General Managers find themselves […]
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With lockdown slowly lifting, people are looking to get back in the dating game. The good news is that dating app Badoo has launched a new feature that’s likely to be music to the ears of UK singles. The platform has brought out a new tool which stops users receiving unsolicited pictures – AKA unwanted […]
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Police and public prosecutors raided Wirecard’s headquarters in Munich and four properties in German and Austria on Wednesday as they widened their investigation into the financial payments company that collapsed last week. Wirecard filed for insolvency last week owing creditors almost $4 billion after disclosing a 1.9 billion euro ($2.1 billion) hole in its accounts […]
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Guiding a couple of kids through a rat pandemic in Medieval France might be an odd elevator pitch for a game – but let me tell you, A Plague Tale: Innocence was one of my favourites from last year. It’s a tale of two young siblings cut adrift and left vulnerable in a beautiful, horrible […]
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down during an anti-racism protest in Bristol. The bronze memorial to the 17th Century slave trader was torn down during a Black Lives Matter protest on June 7 and was later dumped into Bristol harbour. […]
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