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France’s Mr Africa spills the beans on secret cash

JOHANNA LEGUERRE/AFP Robert Bourgi has lifted the lid on decades of work with French and African presidents It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville. He was there to collect funds for the approaching French presidential election on […]

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How to avoid a row over reclining plane seats

Getty Images A lot of us have been there, locked in a metal cylinder flying at more than 500mph (804km/h), gritting our teeth about the armrest the person to the left is hogging. Or the person next to the window who keeps getting up to go to the toilet, or the person in front who […]

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Other hospitals warned over children’s surgeon Yaser Jabbar

Hospitals need to review any child treated by bone surgeon Yaser Jabbar, a solicitor representing affected families has told the BBC. The lower limb reconstruction surgeon worked at private hospital The Portland, as well as seeing NHS patients at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust Hospitals and Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) in London. A damning […]

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Katie Piper hikes Yr Wyddfa with burns survivors

Zac Walton Katie Piper was attacked with acid in 2008, arranged by an ex-boyfriend Model and campaigner Katie Piper has taken on highest peak in Wales with fellow burns survivors to raise money for charity. The group hiked up Yr Wyddfa – also known as Snowdon – on Saturday for the Katie Piper Foundation. Hiker […]

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Real Madrid can cope without Kylian Mbappé in derby – Ancelotti

Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Sep 28, 2024, 07:43 AM ET Carlo Ancelotti has said that Kylian Mbappé’s injury-enforced absence from the Madrid derby will not cause a major change in how his Real Madrid team approaches Sunday’s game. Mbappé — who has already scored five league goals this season — is expected to be out […]

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How ‘SNL’ has been shaping politics for 50 seasons : NPR

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton during the “A Hillary Christmas” sketch on December 19, 2015. Dana Edelson/NBC hide caption toggle caption Dana Edelson/NBC As a comedy nerd who has watched Saturday Night Live since I stumbled on a rerun of the debut episode back […]

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Penguin chicks miraculously survive tearaway iceberg

Getty Images Mothers of emperor penguin chicks leave them for weeks to hunt for food In May a huge iceberg broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, drifted, and came to a stop – right in front of “maybe the world’s unluckiest” penguins. Like a door shutting, the iceberg’s huge walls sealed off the Halley […]

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