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FTSE records strongest annual gain since 2021 as aviation stocks take off
The UK’s blue-chip stock index has recorded its strongest annual gain since 2021, despite lagging behind Wall Street over the past year.
The FTSE 100 index, which tracks the largest companies listed in London, posted a rise of 5.7% for 2024.
Having begun the year at 7,733 points, the FTSE …
The most important tech stories of 2024, and also my favorite ones
Last week, we looked back at how 2024 made Elon Musk the world’s most powerful man. Today, we’re looking at a few other important themes that will influence the online and offline worlds in 2025.
Tech takes a legal beating
Google:
Ruled an illegal monopoly in August, Google could …Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators
Barbenheimer. Gladicked. Deadpool & Wonkarine. The big movies of the past couple of years have been cash-splash smashes by mainstream directors loudly airing strong authorial voices. They are films on which studios have taken heavy bets during the rocky post-Covid period and ushered through a landscape potholed with strife and …
South Korea plane crash investigators turn to black boxes in search for vital clues
As investigators set to work unpicking the cause of Sunday’s devastating plane crash in South Korea, the black boxes carried on the plane will be of prime importance.
One hundred and 79 people out of the 181 onboard died in the disaster, with the victims aged from three to 78.
…Green light: the boss of GB Railfreight with an eye on the environment
Travel north on the east coast mainline, the main London to Edinburgh route, and you may spot the gift John Smith received from colleagues last year.
The huge sign, which stands metres away from the line just north of Peterborough station, carries the Sunderland AFC emblem alongside two arrows, one …
New year events cancelled as high winds and heavy rain batter UK
High winds and heavy rain battering the UK have caused travel problems and the cancellation of a swathe of new year events including firework displays and a bathtub race that takes place in Europe’s largest natural harbour.
The predicted strong winds led to the cancellation of displays heralding the arrival …
‘I could work every day of the week’: the life of a UK pet detective as thefts rise
On a chilly December morning, Colin Butcher and his dog, Molly, are on the streets of Haywards Heath in West Sussex. But Molly is not out for a walk – instead she is hard at work trying to track down a missing cat.
Pet theft is on the rise across …
‘I just ran a lot’: the Strava user whose runs became a viral art phenomenon
Paused on a busy Toronto street, eyes glued to a map on his phone, Duncan McCabe could easily be mistaken for a lost tourist. Within moments, however, he’s on the move again. “I think, at this point, we’re along the belly of the whale,” he says. “The fin is coming …
Manchester Arena attack survivor calls for protection from conspiracy theorists
A survivor of the Manchester Arena attack is calling for greater legal protections from conspiracy theorists after a YouTuber with millions of viewers secretly filmed his family to try to prove they were “crisis actors”.
Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve, now 22, were left with life-changing injuries by the …
Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration
For 80 years, details of their ancestors’ collaboration with the Nazis have been buried in spotless rows of filing cabinets in The Hague. But thousands of Dutch families face having their relatives’ history laid bare later this week when an archive opens on 425,000 people accused of siding with the …