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Finally, the time to tackle ticket touts may have come

Finally, the time to tackle ticket touts may have come

Attempts dating back well over a decade to introduce specific financial mechanisms for ticket resales are yet to result in legal controls to protect fans. So it’s notable that the cultural plan in Labour’s manifesto…

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Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer. Here’s how

Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer. Here’s how

Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next decade or so. The growing swarm is already causing problems for astronomers, but recent research…

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Europe risks trade war, China says before German talks By Reuters

Europe risks trade war, China says before German talks By Reuters

By Joe Cash and Maria Martinez BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing warned on Friday that escalating frictions with the European Union over electric vehicle imports could trigger a trade war, as Germany’s economy minister arrived in the…

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More people are taking a mortgage over 40 years – what this means for young people’s finances

More people are taking a mortgage over 40 years – what this means for young people’s finances

My generation of baby boomers in the UK generally grew up with reasonable expectations of buying a home in our mid-20s with a 25-year mortgage, happily being able to afford a family, and maybe retiring…

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SNB carries out first tokenised monetary policy operation

SNB carries out first tokenised monetary policy operation

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has become “the world’s first central bank” to carry out a monetary policy operation using distributed ledger technology, it announced today (June 20). Token-based SNB bills worth Sfr64 million ($72…

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Hawaii agrees to ‘groundbreaking’ settlement of youth climate change case By Reuters

Hawaii agrees to ‘groundbreaking’ settlement of youth climate change case By Reuters

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Hawaii on Thursday agreed to take action to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045 to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S. state was violating their rights under…

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Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex

Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex

How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth. In a new paper published in Archives of Oral Biology, we…

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The SNP’s focus on social energy tariffs is welcome, but it will take more than this to cut bills

The SNP’s focus on social energy tariffs is welcome, but it will take more than this to cut bills

The Scottish National Party manifesto includes a promise that their MPs will call for a statutory social tariff for energy (and other utilities). This focus on social tariffs in public debate is welcome, but it…

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Brent rises toward $86 as cooling US jobs market buoys rate cut hopes By Reuters

Brent rises toward $86 as cooling US jobs market buoys rate cut hopes By Reuters

By Deep Kaushik Vakil and Robert Harvey LONDON (Reuters) -Oil futures hit a seven-week high on Thursday as fresh data on a cooling U.S. jobs market added to hopes that the Federal Reserve could still…

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What Tory plans to scrap self-employed national insurance would mean for taxes and pensions

What Tory plans to scrap self-employed national insurance would mean for taxes and pensions

The Conservatives have been chipping away at national insurance, and say they want to abolish it altogether for the self-employed. But national insurance has traditionally been the way to build up a state pension –…

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