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Direct Line accepts £3.6bn takeover after rival insurer Aviva raises bid
The insurance company Direct Line has accepted an improved offer from its bigger UK rival Aviva, in a deal valuing the business at £3.6bn.
Aviva, the UK’s largest insurer, has succeeded in reaching a preliminary agreement to take over Direct Line after submitting a third cash and shares bid valuing …
Friday briefing: France’s government has collapsed – now the chaos begins
‘It comes at a cost’: British growers criticise Christmas vegetable price war
Ten years ago, marketing executives at Britain’s biggest supermarket had a brainwave: might slashing the price of basic vegetables tempt shoppers to do their Christmas shop with them?
Tesco, under chief executive Dave Lewis, was trying to
reeling after falling sales,five profit …
From WAG to queen of the jungle: the rise and rise of Coleen Rooney
Agency overseeing $368bn Aukus deal in morale crisis paid consultants $9.5m for management advice
The agency overseeing Australia’s $368bn Aukus purchase of nuclear-powered submarines which is facing a “ruthless” government-ordered review is paying consultants McKinsey $9.5m for management advice.
Details published on the Austender website reveal the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA) has also paid for prestigious executive short courses at Harvard University, Oxford University’s …
What is mocha mousse, Pantone’s colour of the year, and do I eat it or wear it?
Top Afghan cricketers urge Taliban to reverse ban on women’s medical education
Two of Afghanistan’s national sporting heroes have called on the Taliban to reverse a decision to bar women from education and medicine, as cricket’s international community grapples with how to best address human rights concerns in the country.
Afghanistan’s women’s cricket team fled following the takeover in 2021 and no …
Ukraine war briefing: Lavrov accused of ‘trying to rebuild the Russian empire’
Western countries including the US heavily criticised the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, over the war in Ukraine
on Thursday at an annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Malta. The Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said in his speech: “My message to …
Workers picketing Woolworths’ Melbourne warehouse are ‘capricious’, supermarket tells Fair Work
Woolworths has described a picket line outside one of its key distribution centres in Melbourne as a “metaphorical gun” pointed at its head, as the supermarket giant seeks to restart warehouse operations amid an industrial dispute.
Worker strikes at five distribution centres – including the picketed regional distribution centre in …
Wild landscapes, dark comedy and the Irish language: the rise of ‘Gaelic noir’
Its setting is remote, desolate, and windy. Its protagonist is a mercurial policeman struggling with his own personal demons. Its subject: a long-lost body found in a mountain bog.
So far, so standard for a television crime drama. But there is something about Crá, a new BBC series that debuted …