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Facebook UK cut 700 staff and reduced tax bill last year, accounts show
Facebook cut more than 700 employees in the UK last year at a cost of £79m, after parent company Meta embarked on its
first ever round of redundancies
as part of a global cost-cutting drive to offset a disastrous collapse in revenues.The company – which is …
Shock Ding Liren blunder in Game 11 leaves Gukesh D on verge of world title
A stunning Ding Liren blunder under time pressure gifted Gukesh Dommaraju a decisive result in Sunday’s Game 11 of their world title match, leaving the Indian challenger on the brink of history with a 6-5 lead and three contests remaining.
The fireworks came early as Gukesh, playing as white, opened …
Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner
Newts should not be more protected than people who need homes, Angela Rayner has said ahead of an overhaul of national planning guidelines.
The housing secretary suggested previous governments had got the balance wrong between building more houses and protecting local wildlife.
Speaking on Trevor Phillips on Sunday on Sky …
Angela Rayner says she welcomes fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad
Fentanyl may enter the US from Mexico, but the drug of choice there is different
All night, Daniela stares at screens in the warehouse where she works as a security guard. The challenge is to stay awake. So, before every shift, she smokes crystal meth for the euphoric focus it gives her.
Two-thirds of startups don’t last 10 years. The brutal truth is no one cares
Labour’s big majority is fragile and it has weak mandate for change, says report
Keir Starmer’s focus on winning over voters from the centre-right has delivered Labour a large but fundamentally shallow electoral win and a weak mandate to deliver real change, a report from a Labour-linked thinktank has warned.
, titled Thin Ice, argues that Labour should …Fall of Damascus sidelines Russia and brings Turkey to the fore
As celebratory gunfire was heard across liberated Syria, the diplomatic guns of Iran and Russia, in Doha to attend a major dialogue forum, fell silent, rendered powerless and irrelevant by events in Damascus.
Only 12 hours earlier the key external powers – Russia and Iran along with Turkey – had …
Mohamed Al Fayed faked dementia to evade prosecution, son says
Mohamed Al Fayed pretended he had dementia so he could evade prosecution for sexual crimes, his son has said.
may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls over nearly four decades.His youngest son, Omar Fayed, 37, compared his father …
Elon Musk’s rumoured $100m donation may just fuel a fresh look at UK political funding
Elon Musk has denied he is gearing up to chuck $100m at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, as it pushes to take on the Tories. But the very fact the question arose is a reminder of the pressing need for political funding reform on this side of the Atlantic.
Musk …