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Pension fund loses more than £350m on incinerator power plants

One of the UK's biggest pension funds has lost more than £350m on a series of \"calamitous\" investments in incinerator power plants which are expected to go bust in the coming days.

Stars on tour drive record £7.6bn year for UK music industry

The value of the UK music industry has hit a record £7.6bn after superstar acts including Elton John, Beyonce, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran embarked on Covid-delayed tours.

The nation's retailers deserve a break, but their letter to Reeves Won 't prompt a rethink

While hundreds of farmers took to the streets of Westminster, the nation's shopkeepers protested in the old-fashioned way.

Google may be forced to sell off Chrome browser

US Department of Justice officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser to dismantle the monopoly it has over the internet search market, in a major intervention against one of the world's biggest tech companies.

Mulberry to cut a quarter of HQ staff amid losses

The luxury bag maker Mulberry is cutting a quarter of its head office staff after reporting that half-year sales had slumped by almost a fifth and losses had widened.

'Like a dream' Basquiat, Dali and Haring's theme park rides again

Five years ago, the creative director Michael Goldberg was working from home when he spotted a reference to Luna Luna on an obscure website. \"I may have yelled on my couch,\" he says. Goldberg had chanced upon the lost world of Luna Luna, an avant-garde \"theme park\" staged in Hamburg in 1987, created by the artist Andre Heller, which featured surreal and playful rides designed by the great and the good of the art world.

Stock markets fall and bonds jump amid fear of escalation in Ukraine war

Global stock markets fell and bond prices jumped yesterday after reports that Ukraine had fired a US-made long-range missile into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin approved changes to Moscow's nuclear doctrine.

South African officials weigh up rescue of trapped miners

South African authorities are assessing whether it is safe to rescue potentially thousands of illegal miners who may be trapped underground after police stopped food, water and medicine being delivered to them about two weeks ago to try to force them to the surface.

'Peaky Blinders' thieves still at large after 2002 Dutch gem heist

Police have said they remain confident of arresting four men who stole jewels worth tens of millions of euros in broad daylight at the Maastricht art fair, despite a search of a Belgian river failing to yield any clues.

Thousands of New Zealanders march against Maori treaty bill

A protest march estimated to be one ofthe largest in New Zealand history arrived at its parliament yesterday, flooding the grounds with song in a display of unity against a contro Versial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty between Maori and the crown.

Gaetz nomination 'A less than 50-50 chance'

Prosecutors who secured Donald Trump's conviction over a hush-money payment have opposed his bid to have the case dismissed.

Conor McGregor accuser will be 'a marked woman', Dublin jury told

A woman who alleges the Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor brutally raped her after a Christmas party six years ago in Dublin will \"always be a marked woman,\" simply because she had the courage to stand up to the fighter, a jury has been told.

Pressure grows on Scholz to stand aside for Pistorius

Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is under mounting pressure to step aside as his party's candidate for the job in February's election in favour of his defence minister, Boris Pistorius.

Looting of 98 aid trucks in Gaza sends price of flour to £80 a sack

Food prices have soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks amid an already severe food crisis caused by more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas.

Hong Kong's jailing of pro-democracy activists provokes international fury

Governments and human rights groups have expressed concern and outrage at the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong following the city's largest national security trial.

Meandering look at era of protest and change is low on punky irreverence

Picture the 1980s in Britain, and what comes to mind? Margaret Thatcher? Big hair? Striking miners? Shoulder pads? The poll tax? Greenham Common? New Romantics? Yuppies? Dole queues? Whatever you know, or indeed remember, of the country in its Sinclair C5 era, Tate’s exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain will remind you that there is an abundance of other perspectives.

The climate in charts No sign of emissions slowing in bleak year

\"The era of global boiling has arrived,\" is what the UN chief, António Guterres, presciently declared last year.

Woman reveals toll of 'c0ercive' relationship with police spy

A woman has revealed how an undercover police officer formed a long-term intimate relationship with her without disclosing his real identity, Vanished from her life and then reappeared seven years later.

Compassionate assisted dying bill backed by health minister

The health minister Stephen Kinnock has said he will Vote in favour of the assisted dying bill next week, arguing that it is the \"compassionate\" thing to do and will not automatically place NHS palliative care services under extreme pressure.

England's national parks face financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs

England's national parks face a 12% real-terms cut to their budget which would lead to mass redundancies of wardens and the closure of visitor centres and other facilities, park leaders have warned.

Romanian court finds flaws in case against Tate

A court in Romania has ruled that one of the public prosecutors' cases brought against the self-styled misogynist influencer Andrew Tate contains irregularities and ordered them to amend or withdraw it within five days.

Booker-winner Flanagan takes Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize

Richard Flanagan's Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the first person to have won both this award and the Booker prize for fiction.

Knife crime 'blighting lives of too many children', says report

Serious youth violence in England is widespread and not restricted to particular ethnic or demographic groups, according to investigators who were told that children as young as 11 were carrying knives for protection.

Parents' dismay at baby girl's irreversible male birth certificate

A newborn baby girl will have to go through life with the wrong sex on her birth certificate after a registrar's error, which her parents have been told they can't change.

You're having a larf? Fake accents fool Londoners, study shows

It seems Londoners, and southerners more broadly, are among the worst at spotting people mimicking their accents, with northerners, Scots and the Irish performing better.

Man, 92, arrested over 1967 rape and murder

A 92-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering a woman in Bristol almost 60 years ago.

Nuclear power Attacks on grid 'raise the risk of catastrophe'

Ukraine's power network is at \"heightened risk of catastrophic failure\" after Russia's missile and drone attack on Sunday, Greenpeace has warned, raising fears about the safety of the country's three operational nuclear power stations.

Baltic Sea Germany 'assumes cable damage was sabotage'

Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibreoptic cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.

Film review Erivo casts powerful spell in sugar-rush fantasy

As Kermit the Frog and the Hulk discovered: it's not easy being green. Now another verdant character is gleefully brought to the screen by lyricist-producer Stephen Schwartz, screenwriters Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, and director Jon M Chu in an adaptation of Schwartz's Broadway musical, the first of two parts.

Zelenskyy Ukraine 'could face loo,ooo North Korean troops'

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country could face 100,000 North Korean troops, as he urged European nations to intensify military aid in a speech marking 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.