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Rent-a-grandchild: Businesses offering companions to elderly grow in India

A small but growing number of firms selling what families once took for granted: someone to take care of the seniors.

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Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard “It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years. The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard. Continue reading...

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Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard “It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years. The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard. Continue reading...

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Woke 2.0, Trump and establishment politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their children and grandchildren are reshaping not just politics but western societies. On the latest episode of Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty, Nesrine talks about where never-ending culture wars and real wars in the Middle East have left people of colour

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Woke 2.0, Trump and establishment politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast

Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their children and grandchildren are reshaping not just politics but western societies. On the latest episode of Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty, Nesrine talks about where never-ending culture wars and real wars in the Middle East have left people of colour

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Delap double condemns Man City to third straight defeat

Manchester City slumped to a third consecutive Premier League defeat on Saturday as Liam Delap's double lifted Nottingham Forest out of the relegation zone with a 3-1 win at the City Ground.

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Championship roundup: Birmingham go top, Cardiff stun Burnley from 4-1 down

Jay Stansfield scored the winner to earn Birmingham a 2-1 victory against 10-man Swansea which sent them to the top of the Championship while Cardiff fought back from 4-1 down to beat Burnley 5-4

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Pope Leo hold first mass in Uruguay, urges crowd to be ‘bridge builders’

Vatican says some 40,000 people gathered to listen to the head of the Roman Catholic Church in western city of Paysandu.

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Guatemalan lawmaker and three police officers killed in armed attack

It happened in a region of the country known to have drug trafficking activity.

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Rahm and McIlroy primed for Abu Dhabi title battle

Jon Rahm will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the Abu Dhabi Championship, with Ryder Cup team-mate Rory McIlroy among the players breathing down his neck.

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Amy Winehouse inspired me to quit a soul-crushing job

I was driving to work feeling miserable when Rehab came on – and I realised there’s more to life than a steady wage in a job you despise At 6am on a bleak October morning in 2006, I was driving down the North Circular in London to a job I hated. I usually kept the radio low, a background murmur to keep me focused on the road. But that morning I turned up the volume allowing the buoyant bassline from Amy Winehouse’s Rehab to reverberate through my Ford Ka. As Amy’s rich voice conveyed the depths of her despair, I stared blearily at the empty road ahead and wondered how I’d taken such a wrong tu

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Amy Winehouse inspired me to quit a soul-crushing job

I was driving to work feeling miserable when Rehab came on – and I realised there’s more to life than a steady wage in a job you despise At 6am on a bleak October morning in 2006, I was driving down the North Circular in London to a job I hated. I usually kept the radio low, a background murmur to keep me focused on the road. But that morning I turned up the volume allowing the buoyant bassline from Amy Winehouse’s Rehab to reverberate through my Ford Ka. As Amy’s rich voice conveyed the depths of her despair, I stared blearily at the empty road ahead and wondered how I’d taken such a wrong tu

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‘Radical’ or ‘hero’?: France debates leftist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon

The hard-left leader has transformed into a real contender in next year presidential elections.

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