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ARM Holdings in £24bn Japanese takeover deal
ARM Holdings, one of the UK's biggest technology companies, is set to announce it is being bought by Japan's Softbank for £24bn ($32bn). The board of ARM is expected to recommend shareholders accept the offer — close to a 50% premium on its closing market value of £16.8bn on Friday. The Cambridge-based...
Turkey coup attempt: Police and officials purged
Turkish officials say that nearly 8,000 police officers have been suspended on suspicion of having links to the coup attempt at the weekend. Some 6,000 members of the judiciary and military, including generals, have been detained. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to purge state bodies of the "virus" that had...
Melbourne students’ ‘sexualised’ Instagram posts spark anger
A prestigious private school in Melbourne, Australia has shut down a student-run Instagram page which was accused of sexualising younger girls. Police are investigating after the mother of one girl featured complained. The account, by year 12 students at Brighton Grammar, used photos of girls as young as 11 and asked people to...
Five people seriously injured after helicopter crashes on side of runway
A HELICOPTER has crashed at the side of a runway seriously injuring five people. Emergency services were called to Breighton Aerodrome, East Yorkshire following reports a helicopter crashed on the side of the runway. Five men were hurt and their injuries are serious but not believed to be life threatening. The men...
Baton Rouge shootings: Obama calls for calm after three police officers killed
President Obama has called for restraint after three police officers were shot dead in the city of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. The gunman, Gavin Long, an African-American who had served for five years in the Marines, was also killed. He had posted videos on the internet complaining about police treatment of African-Americans....
MH17 crash: Malaysia Airlines ‘strikes deal on damages’, says lawyer
Malaysia Airlines has settled damages with the relatives of most victims of the MH17 crash, the lawyer representing the victims, Veeru Mewa, says. Flight MH17 was shot down exactly two years ago over territory held by pro-Russian separatists, killing all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. Dutch media say there are no...
Что творится с Ириной Дубцовой? Ее не узнать!
Похоже, Ирина Дубцова решила, как следует оторваться на Мальдивах и даже сменила имя и образ. Развлекается Ира вместе с подругой Анной Клиценко. И, видимо Дубцовой надоело быть...
The country that hates to be late
The Swiss derive genuine joy from the fact that life unfolds on time and in a highly efficient manner. Although many countries are saddled with stereotypes, in Switzerland’s case they’re dead on. The alpine nation really is highly efficient. And meticulously punctual. Clean, too. For chronically tardy, resolutely...
Is full-time work bad for our brains?
If you’re over 40, working more than 25 hours a week could be affecting your intelligence, new research suggests. Don’t do an IQ test after a full week’s work if you are 40 years or older. You could be disappointed. If you’re over 40, working more than 25 hours of work a week could be impairing your...
Nice attack: Sarkozy blames government for failing to prevent attacks
In the wake of the attack in Nice, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has criticised the government for not doing enough to provide security. The centre-right opposition leader called for any foreign nationals with links to radical Islam to be expelled from France. More than 80 people died when an attacker ploughed a lorry...
Syrian army takes main road into rebel-held areas of Aleppo
The Syrian army and pro-government forces have taken control of the main road leading into rebel-held areas in Aleppo, effectively cutting off the rebels' main supply route, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Sunday. Aleppo has been a major battlefield in Syria since 2010, with fierce fighting between...
Qandeel Baloch: Pakistani social media star strangled by her brother
Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan's most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called "honor" killing in the city of Multan in the country's province of Punjab. Azhar Akram, Multan's chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was...