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Eighth-seeded Casper Ruud won 10 of the last 11 games to beat Juan Ignacio Londero 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 Saturday and advance to the final of the Argentina Open. The 21-year-old Norwegian, who is ranked 45th and chasing his first title, faces Portuguese lucky loser Pedro Sousa in the clay-court final in Buenos Aires. The 145th-ranked […]
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How men play the mating game is fairly well understood. But the psychological tricks and ploys women might use to attract or deceive men are less clear. Now, for the first time, psychologists have tested the potential for women to use predatory game-playing tactics. Women, like men, can pick up clues a potential partner might […]
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France’s Alstom SA (ALSO.PA) is close to clinching a deal to buy Bombardier Inc’s (BBDb.TO) train business which will give the unit an enterprise value of $7 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. An announcement could come as soon as Monday, the source said, adding a deal has yet to be signed. […]
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Facebook has canceled its upcoming global marketing conference out of caution for the coronavirus outbreak, according to Reuters. The conference was set to take place in March at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, and 4,000 people were expected to attend. “Our priority is the health and safety of our teams, so out of an abundance of […]
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Nikita Pearl Waligwa, an actor who appeared in Disney’s biographical drama “Queen of Katwe,” has died, according to BBC and the Ugandan newspaper Daily Monitor. She was 15. Waligwa had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016 and seemed to recover a year later. However, in 2019, another tumor was found. “Queen of Katwe” […]
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Kiki Bertens will face Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina in the final of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy as the Dutch player tries to successfully defend her title. Eighth-ranked Bertens stumbled in the second set but recovered to win her semifinal 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 against Ekaterina Alexandrova on Saturday. That gives her the chance to end an […]
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The number of new cases from China’s coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day on Sunday, as the World Health Organisation chief warned it was “impossible” to predict how the outbreak would develop. Global concern remains high about the spread of the virus, which first emerged in China’s central Hubei province in December, with […]
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Oil prices edged lower on Monday as investors brace for economic data in Asia due this week that should give a reading on how China’s coronavirus epidemic has affected oil demand. Brent crude LCOc1 was at $56.99 a barrel, down 33 cents by 0121 GMT after rising 5.2% last week, the biggest weekly gain since […]
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Intel has sent out a wave of engineering sample processors, a few dozen of which are (allegedly) available for purchase on Taobao. If they actually shipped you one, then you’d be getting some very powerful hardware: those same engineering samples are beating their predecessors by 15-20% in a handful of online benchmarks. Intel’s tenth generation […]
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Country singer Daniel Lee Martin was found dead, apparently by suicide, in a Florida home after deputies attempted to serve multiple warrants related to charges of sexual abuse of minors, according to officials. Pasco County sheriff’s deputies attempted to serve the warrants Friday at a residence in New Port Richey, northwest of Tampa, but they […]
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