(Reuters) – England fast bowler Mark Wood has been ruled out of the test series against Sri Lanka due to a thigh injury and will be replaced by left-arm seamer Josh Hull, the England Cricket Board said on Sunday. Wood injured his right thigh during the first test at Old Trafford and the 34-year-old did …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Hezbollah said on Sunday it had completed the “first phase” of its response to Israel’s killing of the group’s top commander in a strike on a Beirut suburb last month. Hezbollah added that it had hit 11 Israeli military sites, fired more than 320 rockets and sent drones flying into northern Israel …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -England were closing in on victory over a gritty Sri Lanka in the first test with the visitors on 204-6 in their second innings at the end of the third day at Old Trafford on Friday — a slender lead of 82. Angelo Mathews (65) and Kamindu Mendis (56 not out) led …
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By Guglielmo Mangiapane and Giselda Vagnoni PORTICELLO, Italy (Reuters) -Italian divers retrieved the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, who was the last person still unaccounted for after the family’s luxury yacht sank this week off Sicily. Seven people, including Lynch himself, died when the 56-metre-long (184-foot) boat, the Bayesian, capsized …
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By William Schomberg and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Friday that he thought longer-term inflation pressures were easing but further interest rate cuts would not be rushed because it was still too soon to be sure inflation was beaten. In a speech he will deliver on Friday at …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) – London is set to have its first memorial to victims of transatlantic slavery, with the mayor’s office announcing on Friday the design of a long-awaited monument seen by advocates as a step towards confronting the past and its legacies. The memorial will be located at West India Quay, in …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. committee urged Britain on Friday to pass measures to curb hate speech and xenophobic rhetoric which it said had played a direct role in fuelling summer riots. Racist unrest involving far-right groups erupted at anti-immigration protests across Britain in August after false information circulated online that the …
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By Lawrence White and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC aims to double the assets under management in its British wealth business to 100 billion pounds ($131 billion) in the next five years, the division’s head told Reuters, joining rivals in targeting more fee income from the UK’s ‘mass affluent’. The lender aims to become …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Jamie Smith’s unbeaten 72 propelled England to a 23-run lead over Sri Lanka on day two of the opening test on Thursday at Old Trafford where only 57 overs were bowled after the first session was washed out and bad light stopped play. Harry Brook’s 56 guided England within reach of Sri …
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By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, the tech tycoon who died when his luxury yacht sank off Sicily, spent more than a decade building Britain’s biggest software company and almost as long again fighting charges he had inflated its value to secure a multi-billion-pound sale. Lynch’s body was retrieved on Thursday from the …
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