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Rolls-Royce Holdings is to hand its chief executive a multimillion-pound annual pay boost, even as he nears one of Britain’s most lucrative ever public company payouts after overseeing a spectacular revival of the industrial manufacturing group. Sky News has learnt that Rolls-Royce’s board has concluded a consultation with leading shareholders on a radical overhaul of…
Singer Julio Iglesias issued a statement in response to allegations this week that he sexually assaulted two former employees at his homes in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas. The Grammy winner, the father of pop singer Enrique Iglesias, on Thursday denied the allegations as βabsolutely falseβ in an Instagram statement posted in Spanish. βI…
In a typical Nigel Farage tease, the Reform UK leader has said that a “well known Labour figure” will defect to his party next week. But who? Notice that he said a “Labour figure” rather than “Labour MP”. That perhaps suggests he means an ex-MP or a peer. Or someone who’s both. And after Nadhim…
WASHINGTON Β βΒ The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear Monsantoβs claim that it should be shielded from tens of thousands of lawsuits over its weed killer Roundup because the Environmental Protection Agency has not required a warning label that it may cause cancer. The justices will not resolve the decades-long dispute over whether Roundupβs key…
OpenAI announced Friday that it will begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, opening the door to another potential revenue stream for the AI company in addition to its subscription-based models.Β The ads will appear at the bottom of the chat window “when there’s a relevant sponsored product or service based on your…
Using a playbook familiar to their front office, the Dodgers waited until the market for slugging outfielder Kyle Tucker dwindled before making him an offer short on duration but generous in dollars. The result is the defending two-time World Series champion plugged the only hole in its lineup with another superstar β one regarded by…
Wholesale natural gas prices have risen by more than 40% this month as a raft of pressures, described by one analyst as a “perfect storm”, threaten to raise energy bills ahead. Day-ahead prices for UK delivery were at a six-month high on Friday, a rise of more than 14% on the day, as contracts across…
Mickey Rourke is doubling down on his disgust over a fundraiser that quickly raised more than $100,000 on his behalf, calling it an embarrassing βscamβ and a βvicious cruel lieβ and promising βsevere repercussions to [the] individual who did this very bad thingβ to him. At the same time, the fundraiser β aimed at keeping…
A court has thrown out a Β£50m compensation claim against the Scottish government over its doomed deposit return scheme. Waste management firm Biffa won a contract as part of plans to bring in the scheme, and later took ministers to court when the initiative was shelved. Biffa had been seeking Β£51.4m in damages at the…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Venezuelan opposition leader MarΓa Corina Machado said Thursday that she βpresentedβ her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump during a private meeting at the White House, but he has not changed his view that she does not have the support to lead her country. Machado, who won the prize last year for her work…
