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Budget 2026: Wealth tax would make London ‘worst place’ among well-off countries to own property
Chancellor John Healey is expected to raise taxes in the Budget on October 28
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‘Miami-Dade County is not Vice City’: GTA 6 is taking over Miami—and dividing the county
Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI doesn’t come out for another month, but Miami is already starting to look a lot like Vice City. The hype around the game is hard to overstate. It arrives Nov. 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S…
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Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics
Even Healthcare has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, as the Indian startup seeks to change how hospitals in the world’s most populous country make money and how doctors are rewarded. The all-equity Series B round…
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Whyalla’s blast furnace closure could see Australia go years without major steel production source
Unions predict Australia could be without domestic structural and rail steelmaking for up to five years, as about 500 employees are made redundant at the Whyalla Steelworks.About 250 employees are expected to take voluntary packages, but there…
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National Guard member injured in DC shooting, police say
The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington said early on Monday it was investigating a late-night shooting that involved members of the National Guard, one of whom was injured.Police officers responded on Sunday night to reports of a…
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Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Day two of second cricket Test match starts in Gqberha starts at 6.45pm local time; scores, results
The simmering feud between great England all-rounders has bubbled over once more, with Lord Botham saying Ben Stokes “let himself down” in the final months of his Test career.Botham, 70, and Stokes, 35, were previously on good terms –…
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Stock markets trim most of sharp early losses amid buying in SBI, Reliance Industries
Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty recovered most of their early…
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AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard.So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat.“I kind of went into it like a…
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Arizona man accused of plotting mass casualty attack on religious site with ‘cookbook’ tied to OKC bombing
An Arizona man who allegedly plotted a mass casualty attack on a Jewish or Muslim house of worship is being accused by prosecutors of possessing an infamous bomb-making manual linked to the Oklahoma City…
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South Africa v Australia: second men’s cricket Test, day two
Key eventsPreambleGeoff LemonHello all. Yes, we managed 12.2 overs yesteday, but somehow it was still quite an eventful 12.2 overs. Another chapter in the Scott Boland story, anyway. He’s a quiet testament to humility. Very odd that CA didn’t…
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