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Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family
The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.
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UK events firm that hosts arms fairs and comic shows sold to rival for £2bn
FTSE 100 firm Informa to buy Clarion from private equity group Blackstone Business live – latest updates A British events business that hosts arms fairs and conventions for comic book fans has been snapped up by a FTSE 100 rival for more than £2bn. Informa has struck a £2.24bn deal to buy the London-based events…
Al JazeeraBusiness
Israeli soldier assaults Palestinian woman in occupied West Bank
An Israeli soldier was filmed assaulting a Palestinian woman during a raid on a family home in the occupied West Bank.
CNBCBusiness
Apollo, banks in talks to finance SpaceX's $40 billion Nvidia GPU purchase
Since SpaceX's record-breaking IPO in June, rates have sold off, and yields on its bonds have risen, along with other AI-related bonds.
WiredTechnology
‘Digger’ is a Box Office Flop. It Might Be the Most Relevant Film of the Year
Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.
The GuardianWorld
Israeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West Bank
Jaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their guns Armed Israeli settlers beat a photographer in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered worsening settler violence against olive farmers in the occupied West Bank. Jaafar…
CNBCBusiness
How the S&P 500 can be at record highs, while the market remains oversold
The S&P 500's new all-time high Tuesday might just be one of the most hated records in recent memory.
The GuardianWorld
Australian Army soldier killed and five others injured in training exercise in the Northern Territory
Australian Defence Force identifies soldier killed in a vehicle rollover near Darwin as Corporal Brendan Hannam • Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Brendan Hannam has been named as the Australian soldier who died in a vehicle rollover during a training accident near Darwin on Monday. Five…
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The Shining axe used by Jack Nicholson for sale as part Stanley Kubrick auction
Excluive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive The axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale. Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, uses the axe to…
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RSPCA NSW director quits over welfare standards for RSPCA-branded chicken
Mark Steele says he is ‘ashamed to be associated’ with the RSPCA Certified scheme, which badges 97% of chicken sold in Australia Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The vice-president of RSPCA New South Wales has left the animal welfare group, saying he is “sincerely ashamed” of the standards…
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Author and former politician Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
Archer sold more than 300 million books in his five-decade writing career, and his last book, Adam and Eve, was due to be released later this month.
The VergeTechnology
Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China
There's been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the US would effectively spell the end of their businesses. Hyundai CEO José Muñoz is not as pessimistic…
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North Korea launches ballistic missile after Seoul demands apology over wounded soldiers
Pyongyang fires towards sea a day after Kim Jong-un sister denounces South Korea for claiming North’s mines wounded South’s soldiers in DMZ North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, a day after it rejected Seoul’s accusation of its mines wounding soldiers. The…
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