Business
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Melrose bosses scoop £300m bonus bonanza
The private equity-style windfall will be triggered on Friday after a sharp rise in the value of Melrose's shares since 2020 when the incentive...
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Drowning in debt: Here's the real reason our lakes and rivers are swamped by sewage
Having survived since the end of the Ice Age in England's largest freshwater expanse, the Arctic char is under threat like never before from raw...
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Britain lags woefully behind major rivals on 5G
The US and China are racing ahead while the UK has the lowest download speed of a G7 country.
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The first pill for postpartum depression is finally getting to patients. Doctors say it’s working.
The first-ever pill for postpartum depression, zuranolone, was approved last year. Doctors are starting to prescribe it to patients, with positive...
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George Floyd’s murder led to a national reckoning on policing, but efforts have stalled or reversed
Four years ago, protests erupted across the country after millions of Americans watched the chilling video of the murder of George Floyd by a...
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'A great sadness': Venezuela is first Andean country to lose of all its glaciers
Scientists explain the loss of the Humboldt Glacier in Venezuela's Sierra Nevada, which they believe makes the South American country the first in...
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Video shows death on the streets of Ukraine town at heart of new Russian offensive
Bodies lie in the pockmarked streets, smoke billows from the ruins of homes, fences sit flattened: A new video offers a rare view inside a...
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April showers blamed as shoppers take the month off
Heavy rain and storms were blamed for the decline. Experts had forecast a drop of 0.4 per cent.
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MARKET REPORT: FTSE keeps on falling as rate cut hopes recede
It fell 0.3 per cent - a fourth consecutive day of losses and sank into the red for a second week in a row, not long after it passed 8400 for the...
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ALEX BRUMMER: Weak enforcers betray UK
There is a reluctance to put up barriers to foreign takeovers because they suggest the country is not open to business.
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Royal Mail £350m in red but 'back on track', according to owner
The results came days before a crunch deadline that could see the 508-year-old firm fall into foreign ownership for the first time.
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Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case in 'Rust' shooting to continue
Alec Baldwin is set to stand trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 killing of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after a...