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Apollo gatecrashes easyJet sale with surprise £5.7bn takeover offer – business live
The US private equity firm Apollo has agreed a surprise £5.7bn deal to buy the budget airline easyJet, gatecrashing an existing sale process and beating a rival bid from the US private credit group Castlelake. EasyJet’s board has said it is inclined to recommend Apollo’s cash offer of £7.15 per share to shareholders, marking a…
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Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot
The tenth annual “AI for Good” summit, organised by the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU), gathered public- and private-sector representatives in Geneva to debate how artificial intelligence might be steered towards benefiting humanity rather than harming it. Held against a backdrop of Washington testimony on superintelligence risks and shifting US export controls on chips,…
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MP launches survey over how £20m of Government cash should be spent in Jordanthorpe, Batemoor and Lowedges
The article’s full text could not be retrieved, as the page returned only a browser verification prompt (“Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue”) rather than the story itself. Based on the headline alone, a Member of Parliament has launched a survey asking residents how £20 million of Government funding should be spent across the Sheffield…
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Police Debunk Fatal Outage Claim as Telstra CEO Faces Executive Scrutiny
A nationwide Telstra network outage on Wednesday disrupted critical Australian infrastructure, affecting train services, payment systems, and emergency triple-zero call capabilities. The incident highlighted serious publ
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Fever Extend Winning Streak to 4-0 Without Clark Amid Political Debate Over Her WNBA Treatment
The Indiana Fever recorded their fourth consecutive victory in Caitlin Clark’s absence, defeating Phoenix 92-89 on Thursday night. Kelsey Mitchell drove the offensive effort with 29 points, including the go-ahead layup t
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Warning over fading tradition of sending postcards
English Heritage has warned that the tradition of sending postcards “could become a distant nostalgic memory”, after a survey found that more than half of Britons never send them. In response, the charity is giving free limited-edition postcards to children visiting 18 of its sites over the summer, in an effort to revive what it…
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This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre (HPC), a British thinktank founded in 2011 by former Guardian business editor Deborah Hargreaves to scrutinise executive pay and the widening gap between CEOs and ordinary workers, is to close. Polly Toynbee argues that its demise removes a distinctive voice that focused not on tax and redistribution but on “predistribution” —…
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Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle’s claim an Aussie died during Telstra outage debunked by police – as cops condemn the public airing of a family’s grief
A claim by Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle that a South Australian woman died during the nationwide Telstra outage because of a failed Triple Zero (000) call has been ruled incorrect by police. Liddle said her office had received a report on Wednesday of a “tragic death following an apparent failure to connect to Triple Zero…
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Belgium take strength from ‘millions and millions’ of new fans before Spain clash
Rudi Garcia says his team can benefit from Balogun red card saga ‘Everyone is talking about us going home but we can do it,’ coach says Rudi Garcia has claimed that Belgium have got “millions and millions” of new supporters after Donald Trump lobbied Fifa to overturn Folarin Balogun’s red card ahead of their victory…