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Amazon refuses breastfeeding chief executive entry to Dunfermline business course
A chief executive was refused entry to an Amazon business course after being told that breastfeeding her baby on site would pose a health and safety risk. Rachael Bews, 33, who runs the Scotland-based marketing agency Nu Coton, had signed up for Amazon’s Innovation Accelerator programme, which involves a tour of the company’s fulfilment centre…
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Identity is not biology, says bobsledder Kaillie Humphries after Supreme Court transgender ruling
Kaillie Humphries, a three-time Olympic bobsledding gold medallist and five-time world champion, has written an opinion piece for OutKick welcoming a recent US Supreme Court ruling on transgender participation in women’s sport. The court upheld the interpretation that Title IX protects an exclusive competitive category reserved for biological women, and Humphries argues this preserves the…
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Asus ROG Strix XG129C gaming monitor gets the review treatment
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Tankers struck in Strait of Hormuz during mass mourning for Khamenei
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Arthur Fery becomes last Briton standing in Wimbledon quarter-finals
France-born British player Arthur Fery, aged 23, has become the last British singles player standing at Wimbledon after reaching the men’s quarter-finals as a wildcard. His run matters because it is an unexpected success story on home soil for a player who grew up close to the All England Club in south-west London and played…
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Britons face 40% tax band unless spending curbed, OBR warns
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the Treasury’s independent fiscal watchdog, has warned that nearly 50 million Britons — including minimum wage workers — could be dragged into the 40 per cent higher rate of income tax unless the Government brings public spending under control. The alert, contained in the OBR’s assessment of long-term “fiscal…
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Divine Lunga escapes Johannesburg shooting after being mistaken for police officer
South African police say they are investigating a case of attempted murder but that no arrests have been made so far.
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Bank of England moves to relax bank capital rules amid AI stability concerns
Bank of England financial policy committee members voice concern on trimming lenders’ financial buffersBusiness live – latest updatesThe Bank of England is planning to loosen capital requirements for major UK lenders, even as policymakers expressed concern about the threat to financial stability from rapid AI developments and debt-fuelled stock investments.The central bank said on Tuesday…
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BTS thrill 62,000 at Tottenham stadium on first UK show in seven years
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, LondonFans and cynics are putty in the boyband’s hands as the lads lark their way through a catalogue of tracks that ricochet from hard rap to buttery popThe 2001 film Josie and the Pussycats is about America’s conflation of art and consumerism at the turn of the millennium. But it could just…
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Russia unmoved by Burnham or Farage as PM, says Badenoch
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch launched a sharp attack on Labour’s handling of defence as an outgoing Sir Keir Starmer travelled to a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, carrying what critics have called an unfunded defence plan. She accused the Prime Minister of leaving a £5billion “black hole” in the Government’s Defence Investment Plan for his…