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City trader in $444 billion 'fat finger' error more than Denmark's GDP
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City trader in $444 billion 'fat finger' error more than Denmark's GDP

A “FAT FINGER” trading error worth $444 billion (£350 billion) — more than the GDP of Denmark — has sent shockwaves through the City.

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May 22, 2024
FRANK ON BAYERN’S RADAR AS NEW BOSS
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FRANK ON BAYERN’S RADAR AS NEW BOSS

BEES MANAGER AND KOMPANY ARE IN THE FRAME TO REPLACE TUCHEL

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May 21, 2024
How Arteta breathed new life into club's thrilling challenge
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How Arteta breathed new life into club's thrilling challenge

AS PART of a team-bonding exercise during their pre-season tour to the United States last summer, Arsenal players were tasked with making movie trailers.

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May 21, 2024
Time to answer 115 questions over whether City wins stink
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Time to answer 115 questions over whether City wins stink

Alleged breaches hang over record breakers

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May 21, 2024
Astra says 20 new drugs will power era of growth’
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Astra says 20 new drugs will power era of growth’

THE biggest company on London's stock market, AstraZeneca, set out bold plans today for what its boss called \"a new era of growth\", powered by 20 new drugs.

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May 21, 2024
Why are people wearing Dryrobes so annoying?
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Why are people wearing Dryrobes so annoying?

EVER since the heady days of lockdown, I have noticed a troubling phenomenon creeping into everyday life: a spike in the number of people extravagantly sticking \"wild\" in front of the word swimming. Essentially, wild swimming is exactly the same thing as normal swimming, but much more smug, and with a greater risk of accidental sewage inhalation.

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May 21, 2024
Promises about diversity ring hollow four years after George Floyd’s death
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Promises about diversity ring hollow four years after George Floyd’s death

SO, picture this: you're deep in the media world, where everyone talks about \"diversity\" and \"inclusion\" like it's second nature. It's in every chat, every memo, and every big event.

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May 21, 2024
The soft, mighty Bao is conquering all: good
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The soft, mighty Bao is conquering all: good

HAD the pub chain Wetherspoons put bao on the menu 10 years ago, customers would've had no idea what they were dealing with. Yet such is the bun's triumphant rise to the fore, 'Spoons has started experimenting with the Asian import, filling a pair with strips of fried chicken, katsu sauce and pickled red onion and sending them out to the masses.

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May 21, 2024
Johansson 'shocked' by soundalike voice in ChatGPT
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Johansson 'shocked' by soundalike voice in ChatGPT

SCARLETT JOHANSSON says she was \"shocked\" and \"angered\" at how \"eerily similar\" one of the voices in ChatGPT sounded to hers.

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May 21, 2024
Police to look at criminal charges in the infected blood scandal’
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Police to look at criminal charges in the infected blood scandal’

POLICE will look \"very carefully\" into whether criminal charges should be brought in the infected blood scandal, a Cabinet minister said today.

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May 21, 2024
Meet Mr Super Prime: I sell to royalty and the 1%
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Meet Mr Super Prime: I sell to royalty and the 1%

Selling Sunset, the LA-based property show, is Netflix’s second most-watched programme globally and now there’s a London spin-off. India Block speaks to its star agent, Daniel Daggers

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May 21, 2024
Britain's top priority for PM
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Britain's top priority for PM

FIXING the crisis-hit NHS should be the immediate top priority for Sir Keir Starmer if he becomes Prime Minister, a new poll reveals.

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May 21, 2024
Police go in with riot shields se woman Is mauled to death by he XL bullies
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Police go in with riot shields se woman Is mauled to death by he XL bullies

ARMED police with riot shields were scrambled to an east London home where a woman had been mauled to death by her two XL bully dogs after her sons raised the alarm.

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May 21, 2024
Sunak: There’s growing backing across Europe for our Rwanda scheme
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Sunak: There’s growing backing across Europe for our Rwanda scheme

RISHI SUNAK, speaking on a trip to Vienna, today claimed growing backing across Europe for his plan to send migrants to Rwanda as a way to end the \"vile trade\" of people-smuggling.

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May 21, 2024
Trump gets the Succession treatment in masterful tale of his rise to power
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Trump gets the Succession treatment in masterful tale of his rise to power

ONE of the hottest tickets in Cannes this year is Iranian director Ali Abbasi's The Apprentice, his tale of the rise and rise of Donald Trump.

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May 21, 2024
McKenna and Amorim playing a waiting game over Poch's future
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McKenna and Amorim playing a waiting game over Poch's future

RUBEN AMORIM and Kieran McKenna are both waiting in the wings in case Chelsea opt to make a managerial change this week.

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May 20, 2024
My record breakers can get even better, Pep warns rivals
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My record breakers can get even better, Pep warns rivals

PEP GUARDIOLA has warned Arsenal that his record-breaking Manchester City side can improve again, even after claiming four consecutive Premier League titles.

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May 20, 2024
Warren’s warning as Fury calls for rematch
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Warren’s warning as Fury calls for rematch

TYSON FURY is prone to dramatic pronouncements in the immediate aftermath of his fights, twice calling time on his career before performing a U-turn.

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May 20, 2024
Oil prices rise amid defensive moves after death of Iran president
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Oil prices rise amid defensive moves after death of Iran president

LONDON'S FTSE 100 kept positive today, staying within reach of last week's record high, but there was a defensive feel to the leaderboard with traders keeping watch on news out of the Middle East.

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May 20, 2024
O’Leary slams air traffic control in Europe as Ryanair profits soar
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O’Leary slams air traffic control in Europe as Ryanair profits soar

THE boss of Ryanair today took aim at Europe's beleaguered air traffic control system as profits at the budget airline soared to nearly €2 billion.

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May 20, 2024
A breath of fresn air
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A breath of fresn air

Anew hotel in the Dolomites is putting wellbeing at the forefront, with sauna rituals, forest bathing and relaxing hikes with spellbinding views.

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May 20, 2024
Between the Lines
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Between the Lines

Take the sleeper train to the Scottish Highlands to strike out on an adventure through some of the wildest, most remote terrain in Europe.

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May 20, 2024
Thyroid disease: the crisis no one talks about
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Thyroid disease: the crisis no one talks about

One in eight women will develop a thyroid condition in their lifetime. Katie Strick opens up about her six-year rollercoaster

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May 20, 2024
Why Find My Friends is the healthiest social media
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Why Find My Friends is the healthiest social media

WHEN it comes to curating his home screen, my dad has only two forms of social media he's bothered about Strava and Find My Friends reckon he's onto something

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May 20, 2024
Angel wings and bras? Please, the world has moved on diamond-encrusted
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Angel wings and bras? Please, the world has moved on diamond-encrusted

IF you thought we'd evolved past being entertained by grown women wearing giant wings to flog cheap knickers, I'm sorry to report that we've not yet reached that level of human maturity.

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May 20, 2024
Ozempic is the new diet wonder drug, Just like... amphetamines before it
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Ozempic is the new diet wonder drug, Just like... amphetamines before it

MY grandmother, who loved food, was briefly thin and very mad, in the apparently Seventies due to amphetamines, which her doctor prescribed for her weight.

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May 20, 2024
Only a fool would use their phone in a loo, but that doesn't stop some
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Only a fool would use their phone in a loo, but that doesn't stop some

ETIQUETTE is one of those things that's meant to be on its way out. To attempt to bring some old skool decorum and manners into your daily life will cast you as a throwback, a dinosaur, or worse, if you're a man, a rampant, unreconstructed sexist.

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May 20, 2024
I can now speak about my abuse and addiction
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I can now speak about my abuse and addiction

Denise Gough's five-star performance in People, Places Things has stunned critics once again. She tells ick Curtis about trauma and reprising her role

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May 20, 2024
Iranian president killed after his helicopter crashes in heavy fog crossing hilltop vally
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Iranian president killed after his helicopter crashes in heavy fog crossing hilltop vally

ALONDON woman who says her father contracted hepatitis C after a blood transfusion today called for the Government to \"take responsibility\" for the scandal.

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May 20, 2024
Agony of victims: Culprits get to live their lives, but we still have the pain
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Agony of victims: Culprits get to live their lives, but we still have the pain

ALONDON woman who says her father contracted hepatitis C after a blood transfusion today called for the Government to \"take responsibility\" for the scandal.

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May 20, 2024