LONDON (Reuters) – Nurses in central London admired a giant projection of Florence Nightingale onto the buildings of Guys and St Thomas’ hospitals on Monday night to mark 200 years since her birth and her legacy to modern nursing. FILE PHOTO: To commemorate the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth an […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – British World War Two veteran Tom Moore, who has become a national hero after raising more than $40 million for the health service, was awarded the ancient honour of the Freedom of the City of London on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Retired British Army Captain Tom Moore, 99, […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jerry Stiller, who played two of American television’s most cantankerous fathers on the sitcoms “Seinfeld” and “The King of Queens,” has died aged 92, his son Ben Stiller said on Twitter on Monday. FILE PHOTO: Actor Jerry Stiller arrives at the American Museum of Natural History […]
A pair of 1985 Nike Air Jordan 1s, made for and worn by U.S. basketball player Michael Jordan, are seen in an undated handout photo ahead of an online auction by Sotheby’s New York. Sotheby’s/Handout via Reuters (Reuters) – An autographed and well-worn pair of basketball legend Michael Jordan’s Nike […]
Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, speaks about the community photography project in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, during an interview broadcasted on ITV’s ‘This Morning’, in London, Britain, May 6, 2020. Kensington Palace/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, launched a project on Thursday to […]
Bob Dylan’s typescript and manuscript lyrics dated from 1966 are pictured in unknown location, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters May 5, 2020. Sotheby’s/Handout via REUTERS. LONDON (Reuters) – A 1966 manuscript, on which a young Bob Dylan typed and wrote lyrics for a track on his “Blonde […]
FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, LeBron James and K-Pop band BTS are among dozens of celebrities and world leaders who will […]
(Reuters) – David Rhodes, the former president of CBS News who started his career at Fox News, is returning to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to help the company’s News UK operations in the video business, a source familiar with the matter said. Rhodes left CBS News last year. The source […]