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Marianne Faithfull’s 60s releases were wildly variable, perhaps because she seems to have been beholden to the whims of producers who didn’t really know what to do with her: one minute she was recording rounded-edged folk – Cockleshells, What Have They Done to the Rain – the …

Deferred contracts were once baseball’s annual joke played on the New York Mets.

They released veteran third baseman Bobby Bonilla after a dismal season in 1999. But rather than pay the $5.9m left on his contract as a lump sum, the club offered a 25-year deferred deal at a munificent …

Valuable farmland will be protected from housing, solar panels and onshore wind under a new

land use framework

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will announce a consultation into how the limited land in England should be used and where is best to farm, …

Shell has given its investors a multibillion-dollar windfall despite reporting weaker-than-expected profits of $23.7bn (£19bn) for last year as global oil and gas prices tumbled.

Shareholders of Europe’s biggest oil company are in line for a 4% dividend increase alongside share buybacks of $3.5bn for the last three months of …

Good morning. Late last night near Washington DC, a jet carrying 64 people collided with a US army helicopter above the Potomac river. A frantic rescue operation got underway quickly and was still continuing a few minutes ago, with the precise number of fatalities unclear but multiple bodies seen being …

Trump’s executive order

halting US foreign aid funding flows

In south-east Asia, such funding provides humanitarian assistance to communities that are among the most vulnerable in the world to natural disasters, as well as support for …

Water bills will rise by an average of £123 this year in the biggest hit to customer pockets since the industry was privatised 36 years ago, as the public pays to replace ageing infrastructure and

cut record sewage pollution

The price hike for millions of customers in …

The British car parts maker Dowlais has agreed to a £1.2bn takeover by its US rival American Axle & Manufacturing, in the latest departure from the London stock market.

The main operation of Dowlais, which has been

listed on the FTSE 250 index since 2023

You just got back from Egypt. What was that like?

There are 6 million cats in Egypt that are kept as pets, and there are 100 million that live on the streets. And they’re all missing an eye, or a part of a paw, or they’re filthy. So …

The International AI Safety report is a wide-ranging document that acknowledges an array of challenges posed by a technology that is advancing at dizzying speed.

The document, commissioned after the 2023 global AI safety summit, covers numerous threats from deepfakes to aiding cyberattacks and the use of biological weapons, as …