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Bearing up well: Pregnant UK royal Kate dances with Paddington
LONDON (Reuters) – Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, danced with Paddington Bear on Monday, delighting children on her return to royal duties after suffering acute morning sickness. Kate, wife of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Prince William, last week made her first public appearance since it was announced in September she was expecting the couple’s third child but suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum. On Monday, she joined her husband and his brother Prince Harry at London’s Paddington station where they met children from charities they support who were heading off on a special
Read MoreUber files appeal to overturn London license loss
LONDON (Reuters) – Uber submitted a court appeal on Friday to overturn a decision by London’s transport regulator stripping the taxi app of its operating license in one of its most important foreign markets. Transport for London (TfL) shocked the Silicon Valley firm last month by deeming it unfit to run a taxi service and refusing to renew its license, citing its approach to reporting serious criminal offences and background checks on drivers. “While we have today filed our appeal so that Londoners can continue using our app, we hope
Read MoreData-center provider Switch surges in debut
(Reuters) – Shares of Switch Inc, which provides data center services to Amazon, eBay and JP Morgan among others, rose as much as 45 percent in their market debut on Friday, giving the company a market capitalization of more than $5.6 billion. Switch’s IPO was priced at $17 per share, above the previously outlined $14-$16 range, and raised $531.3 million, making it the second-biggest U.S. technology listing this year after Snapchat-owner Snap Inc. Snap raised $3.4 billion in March, according to Thomson Reuters data. Switch’s IPO comes at a time
Read MoreSunday on ‘This Week’: White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Thomas Bossert
Sunday on “This Week,” ABC News provides live coverage of Hurricane Harvey’s impact and aftermath. And George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Thomas Bossert on the government’s emergency response. Plus, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute discuss President Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy. And the Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics, with ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, host and managing editor of “News One Now” Roland Martin, Associated Press Washington Read More
Cities across Africa face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone
DAKAR (Reuters) – Natural and human factors made Sierra Leone’s capital vulnerable to a landslide that killed more than 400 people this week: heavy rain, deforested land and communities forced by overcrowding to live on steep hillsides. Those vulnerabilities are mirrored in villages and cities across West and Central Africa – among the world’s poorest and wettest regions – that face a worsening threat from landslides, researchers say. Hundreds are also missing after the side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed near Freetown on Monday in one of the worst flooding-related
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