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By Ian Ransom (Reuters) -Harry Brook and Joe Root smashed centuries in an unbroken 294-run stand to drive England to 315 for three before rain cut day one short in the second test against New Zealand in Wellington on Friday. Batting sensation Brook was on a career-best 184 not out from 169 balls, while Root …

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(Reuters) – Ben Stokes was not indulging in hyperbole when he tipped five-test-old Harry Brook for global stardom heading into the series final against New Zealand, and the England test captain will feel vindicated by the 24-year-old’s batting on Friday. Brook blasted a career-best 184 not out, his fourth test hundred in nine innings, to …

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LONDON (Reuters) – London’s V&A museum said on Thursday it had secured the archive of late music star David Bowie for the nation, acquiring more than 80,000 items spanning his career that will be made available to the public from 2025. The museum, which hosted the critically acclaimed “David Bowie Is” exhibition in 2013, will …

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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs. The interior ministry, or Home Office, said all asylum seekers would still …

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LONDON (Reuters) – A group of activists poured hundreds of litres of yellow and blue paint onto the road outside the Russian Embassy in London on Thursday to create an enormous Ukrainian flag ahead of the one year anniversary of Moscow’s invasion. The campaign group “Led By Donkeys” halted traffic before spreading more than 300 …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British soccer commentator John Motson has died aged 77, his family announced in a statement on Thursday. Popularly known as “Motty”, Motson started working on the BBC’s flagship soccer highlights show Match of the Day in 1971. He went on to cover 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party Keir Starmer will lay out five policy priorities at a speech in Manchester, northern England, on Thursday to highlight his party’s agenda for the next national election. Below is what Starmer has so far said publicly about his five national “missions”: – HAVING THE HIGHEST …

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