For your report (Bias against working-class and regional accents has not gone away, report finds, 3 November), as a northern student at Nottingham University almost three decades ago, I attended lectures by the late Professor Ron Carter. His “socks on the fourth floor” lecture sticks in my mind as an example of how people used accent features to decide whether others were “like us” or not. In the socks example (quoted from an elevator operator at Bloomingdale’s), research by Michael Halliday showed how wealthy New Yorkers related to people from Cornwall, having heard tapes of conversations as both pronounced their Rs with these words....

Publié le 01/11/2022 à 14:14 Nous sommes toujours au milieu des résultats financiers et Sony vient de publier ses résultats pour le trimestre terminé le 30 septembre. L’occasion pour PlayStation de faire le point sur les ventes, la production et le PlayStation Plus de la PS5. La situation, si elle n’est pas idéale, est bonne ! Le nombre de PS5 vendues augmente lentement mais sûrement ! Affecté par la pandémie et les pénuries, comme toutes les entreprises, Sony PlayStation n’a pas pu produire ou vendre autant de PS5 qu’il le souhaitait....

“Des unités de l’Armée populaire coréenne (APK) chargées d’utiliser des armes nucléaires tactiques ont mené des exercices militaires du 25 septembre au 9 octobre pour tester et évaluer la capacité de dissuasion nucléaire et de contre-attaque du pays”, a écrit KCNA. L’agence a justifié ces exercices par des manœuvres militaires conjointes américano-sud-coréennes dans la région, “une position malheureuse qui exacerbe encore les tensions dans la région tout en posant ouvertement une menace militaire” à la Corée du Nord....

Two cars were traveling at high speed when one hit a moped and several parked cars in Brixton shortly before 8pm on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said. A man, who was in his 20s, got out of the crashed car and was chased and shot by a gunman from the second car, who then drove away. The man died at the scene in Railton Road. The rider of the moped, believed to be a Deliveroo employee, also aged in his 20s, died as a result of his injuries....

Realme has confirmed that the Realme 10 will debut on November 09. The smartphone tech giant has also confirmed that this handset is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity G99 processor and sports a Super AMOLED display. The Chinese smartphone company tweeted on Friday to reveal the Realme 10 4G in Clash Black color. This image suggests that the handset will feature a power button and volume rockers on the right side....

A black hole roughly 10 times more massive than our sun lurks just 1,560 light-years from Earth, a new study reports. This is about twice as close as the previous proximity champion. The newly discovered object, a stellar-mass black hole called Gaia BH1, is in a binary system whose other member is a helium-like star. This star is as far from its companion black hole as Earth is from the sun, which makes Gaia BH1 very special....

Mardi 8 novembre, en présentant la troisième – et dernière étape – de “Renaulution”, son plan stratégique pour Renault, Luca de Meo, directeur général du constructeur automobile, pose un joli problème mathématique : la somme de peut faire plus par tous ; C’est le contraire de ce que disait Aristote. Mais le patron s’en moque. Il est convaincu qu’en organisant désormais Renault en cinq entités et en ouvrant certaines d’entre elles à des actionnaires extérieurs, elles atteindront une valeur totale nettement supérieure à celle du groupe en bourse aujourd’hui....

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Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature First set: *Federer/Nadal 2-2 Sock/Tiafoe (denotes next server) A quick hold for Sock and all four players have made their opening service games. First set: Federer/Nadal 2-1 Sock/Tiafoe (*denotes next server) Federer holds comfortably on his opening serve, despite missing a point where he managed to hit the ball through that gap between the net and the net. Even at 41, he’s doing things we’ve never seen before....

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) reduced its borrowing reference rate by 1.5 percentage points to 9.5% and signaled further reductions. Officials have now completely reversed an extraordinary 20% increase in order to tame inflation in the first weeks of the conflict in Ukraine. The CBR said: “Inflation is slowing faster and the decline in economic activity is smaller than the Bank of Russia expected in April.” He said policymakers would “consider the need to reduce the key interest rate at its next meetings”....

Russian forces captured the general manager of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Ihor Murasov, at around 4pm local time on Friday, Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom said. That was hours after Putin, in a sharp escalation of his war, signed treaties to absorb Moscow-controlled Ukrainian territory into Russia. Energoatom said Russian troops stopped Murashov’s car, blindfolded him and then took him to an undisclosed location. “The detention of [Russia] endangers the safety of Ukraine and Europe’s largest nuclear power plant,” said Energoatom President Petro Kotin....

In the occupied city of Kherson, Russian troops are now largely wearing civilian clothes and living in civilian housing as they “strengthen their positions to conduct street battles,” according to the Ukrainian military and a city resident who CNN spoke to. “Amid the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers have significantly stepped up filtering measures,” the National Resistance Center, a creation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said on Monday....

LÉGISLATIVES – La réorganisation politique se poursuit entre Les Républicains et la majorité présidentielle. Et dans cette guerre ouverte, Nicolas Sarkozy devient de plus en plus clair sur son choix – même si l’ancien chef de l’Etat s’est “officiellement retiré de la vie politique”. La candidate Horizons dans la 5e circonscription des Alpes-Maritimes, Marine Brenier, a publié ce jeudi 9 juin, un message de soutien à l’ancien président de la République, à 3 jours du premier tour des élections législatives....

The majority of headlines focus on the difficult economic outlook facing the UK. Reports i that the Bank of England has warned Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng that the country is already in recession and the rise in interest rates to 2.25% means millions of people face a significant increase in their mortgage payments. Prime Minister Liz Truss and Mr Kwarteng are under pressure to avert a “deep recession” with their mini budget on Friday....

Authorities conducted a search from Saturday night into Sunday night before calling it off. The survey covered portions of the shoreline and waters of the Saint John River, Saint John Harbor and the Bay of Fundy. Police say the man went to the Digby ferry terminal area on Saturday. The man is a keen swimmer but did not return home on Saturday night. His belongings were later found on a local beach....

The 39-year-old, a resident of Toronto, had her baby boy in India last year, but despite following all the proper procedures, she was unable to bring him home. Now, after multiple inquiries into the federal government in a nutshell, Sehgal wonders if moving to Canada was the right choice for her and her family. “That was my main motivation: to move here for a better future [my] children, “he told CBC News....

It happened shortly after 9pm South Simcoe police say the Ontario Special Investigations Unit invoked their mandate as a result of the “serious incident.” However, police did not provide any other details in a brief press release sent out late Tuesday night. “All media inquiries should be directed to the SIU,” the statement said. Reports are that there is currently a significant police presence in the area of ​​25th Sideroad and 9th Line, although police have not confirmed the exact location of the shooting....