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Refugees

Tennis champ is a win for immigration – Winnipeg Free Press

You could feel the pride pulsating across Canada on Saturday afternoon as Mississauga-born Bianca Andreescu beat higher-ranked Serena Williams in straight sets at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. The 19-year-old ignored the hype surrounding Ms. Wi…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Super Heroes

Will ‘Hawkeye’ Set Up Marvel’s ‘Young Avengers’? – Hollywood Reporter

As created by Wonder Woman screenwriter Allen Heinberg and artist Jim Cheung, the Young Avengers were: Iron Lad, a teenage version of future villain Kang the Conqueror whose armor — inspired by that of Tony Stark — is later the home to an alternate version of…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Berlin: precarious but not so sexy

Filmmaker Frances Calvert always refused handouts. It ruins friendships, she'd say. Never knowing if shed have freelance teaching work from one semester to the next, like many artists in Berlin she developed a repertoire of techniques to manage earnings that …

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Food Industry

Wendy’s joins the breakfast wars! Here comes the ‘Breakfast Baconator’ – Fox Business

'The Real Wendy' Wendy Thomas on introducing new burgers in a bus tour. Wendy's has decided it can sit on the sidelines no more. Thirty-three years after its last attempt, the Ohio-based burger chain told investors and consumers that is entering the breakfa…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Skateboard

Nike’s New League Of Legends Gear Sucks

Welcome, everyone, to my strange little wheelhouse, where one of my biggest passions in life (video games) is currently intersecting with a smaller one, collecting sports jerseys. Aside from the obvious connectionthere are famous football video gamesfootball…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Oversized Stadiums

Statue in honour of Ibrahimovic to be unveiled in Sweden

Zlatan Ibrahimovic now plays for the LA Galaxy in the MLS. (AFP pic) STOCKHOLM: Former Sweden forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic is set to unveil a bronze statue of himself in his hometown of Malmo on Oct 8, the Swedish Football Association announced on Monday. The…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Refugees

Rohingya crisis: Villages destroyed for government facilities

Media captionJonathan Head visits one of the camps built for returning Rohingya Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. On a gover…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Refugees

Are Rohingya ready to return to Myanmar?

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Cold War

Viewpoint: The CIA, 9/11 and collective blindness

Image copyrightGetty Images When the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to prevent the September 11, 2001 attacks, many asked whether more could have been done. But the true reason why the agency was blind to the signs may be a diversity problem, write…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Elon Musk

Porsche employees fought to have Taycan production in Zuffenhausen – Roadshow

Porsche Taycan production officially kicked off on Monday. Steven Ewing/Roadshow The very first customer-ready Porsche Taycan rolled off the production line in Stuttgart, Germany on Monday, following the high-performance electric vehicle's big debut last we…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Tennis champ is a win for immigration – Winnipeg Free Press

Will ‘Hawkeye’ Set Up Marvel’s ‘Young Avengers’? – Hollywood Reporter

Berlin: precarious but not so sexy

Wendy’s joins the breakfast wars! Here comes the ‘Breakfast Baconator’ – Fox Business

Nike’s New League Of Legends Gear Sucks

Statue in honour of Ibrahimovic to be unveiled in Sweden

Rohingya crisis: Villages destroyed for government facilities

Are Rohingya ready to return to Myanmar?

Viewpoint: The CIA, 9/11 and collective blindness

Porsche employees fought to have Taycan production in Zuffenhausen – Roadshow

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