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“the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) announced last December that the protective structure had “lost its primary safety functions” and now requires repairs estimated at around €1.5 billion.”
“Of Austria’s main newspapers, the Kronenzeitung, the largest population daily, has turned its back on Haider, whom it once supported”
“Two women and one man were found unconscious on streets near the iconic Angel of Independence monument, where thousands had gathered Tuesday night to celebrate, Mexico City’s Health Secretariat said on the social platform X. The victims, w…”
“roughly a tenth of the UK's population”
“Two cargo vessels were seized in the Gulf of Aden within four days last week, rising to at least 13 the number of ships attacked since the start of the year”
“get the UK to race to net zero by making 95 per cent of the national grid carbon-free”
“According to Clare Short, £12 million of state-sponsored aid.”
“The dead included five parachuting instructors, five novice jumpers and the pilot, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said.”
“In 2011 Somali pirates carried out more than 200 attacks and held hundreds of crew members hostage”
“refused to ease stringent North Sea exploration policies”
“The bombing, you might remember, happened, by sheer coincidence, just three days after Clinton was finally forced to admit his affair with a certain intern.”
“Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said it was France’s biggest aviation accident involving skydiving in about 30 years.”
“The MV Lutuf is now among six vessels being held for demands of millions of dollars in ransom, four of which are anchored near the fishing town of Bander Beyla”
“AI and digital payments infrastructure were providing 'tailwinds' to the company.”
“Instead, Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands at the beginning of April, and British voters rallied round Margaret Thatcher and the task force sent to recover the islands.”
“He said it had just taken off from the Nancy-Essey airfield on the outskirts of the city of Nancy when it came down about 300 meters (yards) from the runway.”
“by 2055 England will face a shortfall of five billion litres in public water supply a day, almost enough to fill Wembley Stadium four and a half times daily.”
“The European Union is set to remove the de minimis threshold from 1 July and British retailers have warned that this will cause fast-fashion importers to redirect their efforts towards the UK market.”
“The adjective depraved, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, occurs about 0.03 times every million words in modern written English.”
“The plane banked to the left after takeoff and crashed less than a minute later near houses, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.”
“the daily consumption per person in England is 136.5 litres.”
“Shein and Temu refocused their efforts on the UK and the EU when the US shut its de minimis loophole in August, and are likely to redouble their focus on the British market after Europe clamps down.”
“The text jumps from Palaeolithic Europe to contemporary Japan; from India to Norway.”
“He said he went to the crash site and “there were no signs of life,” with two of the bodies thrown a few meters (yards) from the plane.”
“Residents in Denmark now consume 97 litres of water per person per day, according to Danva, the country's water and wastewater industry body.”
“lost out to a £1,500 offer from a mystery bidder”
“His effigy, says Dixon, had become the site of 'one of the most influential American protest artworks since the Second World War'.”
“Households are responsible for nearly 60% of water use in England and Wales.”
“you might argue that £15 is a lot of money to shell out for a plain T-shirt with an ironed on logo”
“Dixon comes up with 'metaphysical iconoclasm' as a label, which captures the idea that you can destroy a work of art’s soul while leaving it physically unscathed.”
“if everyone in England knocked a minute off their shower time, for example, it would save nearly one billion litres of water a day by 2050.”
“launched today, on National Work from Home Day”
“With a population of 36,000, Ko Samui is Thailand’s third-largest island.”
“Thames Water - one of the cheapest - charges £4.21 and Southern the most expensive at £7.06.”
“lobby for at least one work from home day per month for all office workers”
“Every month, the number of punters doubles for the event”
“In Denmark, the average cost of water and wastewater is £9.45 per cubic metre, here it is significantly lower.”
“The Mayor of London announced a new £12m investment programme on Monday at London Tech Week, targeting AI adoption among the city’s one million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).”
“The French civil service manages to administer the regulation of its private sector with a tenth of the paperwork.”
“water leakage has actually been cut by 43% since 1989 according to Ofwat, the water regulatory body for England and Wales.”
“The three-year initiative arrives amid a record turnout of 30,000 international attendees, which Khan suggested reflects a growing global appetite for the UK capital over its traditional American rivals.”
“In May, Jan Pasalbessi, an Indonesian man, was murdered in what appeared to be a racially motivated attack in south Wales; his daughter was also injured.”
“more than 45 litres per person per day is still being lost from England's water network, nearly a fifth of all the water in the system.”
“His comments follow a string of major commercial commitments at Olympia, including a $2bn (£1.73bn) investment by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) over the next five years, alongside aggressive London expansions by US tech behemoths OpenAI and…”
“France was one of 107 countries attending the conference, which was dedicated to the theme of democracy. [...] Of the attendees, 106 signed the declaration. France did not.”
“the technology has already helped locate over 100 leaks, which has saved the equivalent of two million litres of water every day.”
“While the capital has minted 12 new unicorns and drawn $12bn in tech investment this year alone, fewer than one in six of London’s one million small businesses currently utilise any form of AI.”
“107 countries had come to support democracy, but 106 really did”
“he boldly estimates it could reduce leakage 'by as much as a billion litres a day'.”
“The newly announced £12m funding package, overseen by a digital task force under Baroness Martha Lane Fox, will deliver online and face-to-face training to help smaller businesses adopt the technology.”
“During its six-month presidency, France will try to coax other 'pioneers', such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Finland, to agree with the Franco-German push for closeness.”
“Now 10 reservoirs are planned in England by 2050.”
“The row intensified after a separate £9m national contract was awarded to Palantir to digitalise the UK’s National Firearms Licensing Management System across all 43 regional forces, effectively bypassing the Mayor’s localised ban.”
“while the EU 'has to find wide agreement on better procedures for enhanced co-operation', he still 'could not imagine any core of Europe existing without Britain'”
“just 14% of bodies currently in England have achieved.”
“This hardline stance places him ahead of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose administration recently concluded a consultation on youth online safety without committing to full restrictions.”
“Rather, I am thinking of those missing chunks of the last $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan to Russia, now being sought by Russian interior ministry officials.”
“the EA has now suspended or limited 1,327 farm licences for abstraction.”
“At the end of March 2026, there were 97,519 people in receipt of asylum support, with around 20,885 staying in asylum hotels.”
“Take the Cayman Islands. By 1994 they were playing host to as many as 546 banks, though there were actually only six in the George Town capital of the kind that actually cash cheques. Only 69 had a physical presence: the rest were just nam…”
“£300m development”
“Jersey’s economic adviser, John Christensen, resigned from his post four months ago, having spent 11 years telling Jersey politicians that their growing offshore finance industry would inevitably lead to a vulnerable single-sector economy.”
“£250k statue”
“A Home Office report on the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, commissioned from a retired Treasury official, Andrew Edwards, is expected next week.”
“41 super-luxury flats and penthouses”
“One inhabitant of Sark was found to be on the board of as many as 2,400 companies, most of which he knew almost nothing about.”
“Caudwell’s ten-storey passion project”
“Among Edwards’ recommendations are that the 100,000 offshore companies registered on the Channel Isles should be forced to file proper accounts and tell island regulators who owns them.”
“Le Provencal was originally built as a hotel 100 years ago”
“Now he believes it is probably too late. Demand from financial services has made it impossible to diversify – homes for first-time buyers cost £170,000.”
“stood derelict for 20 years before Caudwell spotted the building”
“A Foreign Office report about the offshore centres of the Caribbean is due soon, and in May the G8 backed a plan by the Organisati”
“and for another 20 years after that”
“housing (I was told that 48 per cent of homes were classed as unfit for habitation)”
“Villa Zelda, which will go on the market for €27m”
“A few wretched people still live among the boarded-up flats, which were built 30 years ago, condemned three years ago, and still await the wreckers’ ball.”
“Caudwell has committed to giving away 70 per cent of his wealth to charity”
“I would fear for the people,” said John Giles, 46, who was once on the dole for”
“the 7ft likeness”
“On 7 September, the BBC broadcast The Faster Race”
“Unemployment in the UK remains low, standing at 4.4 per cent in the three months to February 2025, according to government data.”
“Channel 4 shortly begins a three-part series, The Difference”
“The horse racing spectacle is underway in Berkshire with 300,000 fans expected across five days of Royal Ascot racing.”
“AI, electrification, and decarbonization of the global energy system is expected to increase electricity demand by at least 50% by 2040”
“Stade is part of the Hamburg metropolitan region and is located on the Elbe River, around 40 kilometres west of Hamburg. It's home to nearly 50,000 residents.”
“In February 2020, a far-right extremist shot dead nine people and wounded five others in the central German city of Hanau.”
“In March 2023 a disgruntled former Jehovah's Witness member shot dead six people from the Christian group's congregation in the German city of Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself.”
“The country has some of Europe's strictest gun laws, including a requirement for anyone under 25 to pass a psychiatric exam before applying for a gun licence.”
“Since the GFC, fearfulness has led to rates of job churn, entry and exit, falling by around a third in the UK.”
“In the UK, ITV has so far used the breaks to bring in the USA women’s manager Emma Hayes for tactical analysis.”
“Cricket has had hydration breaks for some time, and hydration breaks if you’re watching the cricket are always sponsored, normally by a water.”
“The coffee firm faces a £1m animal welfare campaign after it delayed its promise to phase out the use of “frankenchickens” in its food, it emerged earlier this week.”
“The pilot’s union Balpa said 94 per cent of its members voted for the cut in pay, agreeing to take up shares in the ailing flag-carrier instead.”
“The pilots, who earn an average salary of around £80,000, will also see their flying allowances cut by 20 per cent.”
“A deadline for agreeing 3,700 job cuts and a two-year pay freeze with cabin crew and administration staff passed without a deal on 30 June, and talks are continuing to try to break the deadlock.”
“An angry GMB union, which represents many of these BA workers, says it will parade 12 lemmings in cages outside the airline’s annual meeting at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster today, and will hold up placards saying…”
“Walsh, who has agreed to work for nothing in July and sacrifice his monthly salary of £61,000, says the airline’s losses are running at almost £3m a day.”
“France’s squad is worth €1.436bn (£1.238bn), according to CIES, while Spain’s players are valued at a total of €1.407bn (£1.213bn).”
“Germany have the only other squad valued at more than €1bn”
“Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers is the England player with the highest estimated transfer value, of €137m (£118m).”
