LONDON (Reuters) – British actor Ian McKellen said on Monday he feared he would die when he lost his footing and fell off a London stage mid-performance in June. McKellen, 85, was starring in “Player Kings”, combining William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Parts One and Two”, in the capital’s West End theatre district, when he tripped …
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By Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) – It is rare a player scores a century in both innings but fails to win the man-of-the-match award, but that is the fate that befell Joe Root as he ceded the honour to all rounder Gus Atkinson as England swept aside Sri Lanka on Sunday. Atkinson became only the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party announced plans on Saturday to deliver the most “packed legislative agenda” for a new government in decades, including the introduction in the autumn of laws to improve employees’ rights and greater protection for renters. With parliament due to return from its summer recess on Monday, the Leader of the …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -Tickets for next year’s Oasis reunion tour sold out by Saturday evening though fans eager to see the band play live for the first time in 16 years complained of technical issues and long online waits that often ended in disappointment. Fans trying to access the three websites selling the …
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By Hugh Lawson LONDON (Reuters) – England’s Joe Root said he had lost none of his desire to score runs for his country and get better as a player after compiling his 34th test century on Saturday at Lord’s in the second test against Sri Lanka. Root’s second hundred of the match put his team …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Sri Lanka slumped to 196 all out on day two to concede a huge lead in the second test at Lord’s on Friday after Gus Atkinson’s superb maiden century put England in control of the match. Kamindu Mendis (74) provided the only real resistance and was the last man out …
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(Reuters) – News of British rock band Oasis’ long-awaited reunion tour next summer has led to a surge in searches for travel to Britain and Ireland, Spanish online travel booking company eDreams said on Friday. Searches for flights overall rose nearly 30-fold on Tuesday, the day the band announced its return to the stage, eDreams …
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By Khushi Singh (Reuters) -The UK’s main stock index hit over a three-month high on Friday, clocking gains for the topsy-turvy month, with real estate shares in the lead as interest rate-cut hopes held firm, while energy shares tumbled on demand concerns, capping intra-day gains. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index ended flat, but registered its …
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PARIS (Reuters) -The European Central Bank would be “wise” to deliver another interest rate cut in September, French policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said, warning there was a risk of undershooting its inflation target if it waits too long. Inflation in the euro zone fell to its lowest level in three years in August, clocking …
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By Suban Abdulla and Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) – Oasis tickets go on sale in Britain and Ireland on Saturday for the group’s long-awaited reunion, likely attracting old and new fans in a tour being billed as the “big event of 2025”. The Britpop band announced their comeback this week to much fanfare, 15 years …
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