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A city that declared war on its empty shops is filling them from the top floors down
Aberdeen’s Union Street was once packed with shoppers from across north-east Scotland. The council is now filling vacant units directly and…
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A 5% deposit on the average UK home now needs about £16,850 saved before you start
A new scheme aims to help first-time buyers in England with a small deposit. Moneyfacts puts the real starting figure — deposit, moving…
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Trump rejects Iran’s offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran says only a negotiated solution can end it
Iran proposed reopening the strait to commercial shipping within seven days. Trump called the proposal unacceptable, saying Tehran wanted a…
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UK diesel is 198.32p a litre, within a penny of the record set after Russia invaded Ukraine
The RAC expects the all-time high of 199.09p to be surpassed, as seven months of disrupted Iranian oil production and transport work…
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A jet with an anteater’s nose and a cockpit so far back the pilot flies by camera
The X-59 is designed to flatten the sonic boom that kept Concorde off routes across the US. It is the latest in a line of experimental NASA…
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Washington is asking an EU court to let it take Elon Musk’s side against a €120m fine
The European Commission fined X over paid blue ticks it said deceive users. The US Department of Justice has filed to intervene, arguing…
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A 4.5kg bag of whey protein cost £60 in 2020. The same bag is now £170
Amarpreet Singh has been drinking protein shakes since he was 16. Fourteen years later they are still part of his routine, and the price of…
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Trump calls AI risk “a hoax”. Beijing calls it a power maximiser. Neither is treating it as a shared problem
Trump has been blunt about who he considers America’s main rival. Xi has been quieter, but AI has been central to China’s ambitions for…
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A Texas farmer lost a cabbage crop to hail in one night. His land now earns from the sun as well
Steve Cargil’s family have farmed near Uvalde since 1953. After a hailstorm destroyed months of work overnight, his son questioned whether…
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A Dutch court has banned Lidl from selling Birkenstock lookalikes, at €5,000 a day if it does not comply
The supermarket must stop selling copies of five Birkenstock models in the Netherlands, hand over sales data and pay compensation. The…
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Ford’s Dagenham engine output halved in a decade. Its plan is to build military vehicles instead
Output at Ford’s Dagenham plant has fallen from 90,000 engines a year to about half that. The company is bidding, with General Dynamics and…
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A 100MW data centre holds about 400 tonnes of copper. The industry is now betting on light instead
About 400 tonnes of copper goes into a typical 100MW facility, 20 of it in the wiring between servers. Replacing that wiring with light is…