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Why American investors are pouring money into European football

Why American investors are pouring money into European football

Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan) were crowned champions of this year’s Serie A, the top flight of Italian football, on April 22. A month later, they were back in the news having been taken over by…

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Farming with a mixture of crops, animals and trees is better for the environment and for people – evidence from Ghana and Malawi

Farming with a mixture of crops, animals and trees is better for the environment and for people – evidence from Ghana and Malawi

Farming just one kind of crop in a field at a time, and using a lot of chemicals, poses a risk to both people and nature. This simplified intensive agriculture often goes hand in hand…

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UK dismisses statement by Yemen’s Houthis saying they attacked British destroyer By Reuters

UK dismisses statement by Yemen’s Houthis saying they attacked British destroyer By Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) – Britain’s defence ministry said on Sunday a statement by Yemen’s Houthis that they had fired ballistic missiles at a British destroyer in the Red Sea was false. The Houthis did not say…

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How Sunak came up with disputed Labour tax figures – and what’s wrong with them

How Sunak came up with disputed Labour tax figures – and what’s wrong with them

The first televised debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer was dominated by the prime minister’s claim that every working family in the country would be paying £2,000 more in tax if Labour win the…

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AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition

AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition

If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI…

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Column-US manufacturers in halting recovery but diesel use tepid: Kemp By Reuters

Column-US manufacturers in halting recovery but diesel use tepid: Kemp By Reuters

By John Kemp LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturers are gradually emerging from a prolonged but shallow slowdown over the last two years, but progress has been fitful, and their consumption of diesel remains tepid, which…

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The global orange juice crisis is caused by disease and bad weather – here’s how to keep it on the breakfast table

The global orange juice crisis is caused by disease and bad weather – here’s how to keep it on the breakfast table

Just as the world is coming out of the tea crisis, another breakfast staple, orange juice, is in the spotlight. Supply constraints have led to prices shooting up by more than 20% in a year.…

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Oil dips on deflated US interest rate cut expectations, OPEC+ decision By Reuters

Oil dips on deflated US interest rate cut expectations, OPEC+ decision By Reuters

By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices edged down on Friday and posted a third straight weekly loss as investors weighed OPEC+ reassurances against the latest U.S. jobs data that lowered expectations that the…

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New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues about how they died out

New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues about how they died out

Until around 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was two metres tall and weighed up to 230 kilograms. Palaeontologists first discovered these so-called “thunder birds” in…

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The Premier League is tweaking the rules to keep things competitive – and VAR is staying too

The Premier League is tweaking the rules to keep things competitive – and VAR is staying too

Another Premier League season of sweat, celebration and despair came to an end on May 19 with Manchester City crowned champions once again. Then, after ten months battling against each other, the 20 teams of…

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