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Games Workshop on track to be promoted to FTSE 100 in quarterly reshuffle
The UK’s blue-chip share index could be about to be invaded by space marines, Ork Weirdboyz and Chaos Gods.
Games Workshop, the UK maker of miniature wargames, is on track to be promoted to the FTSE 100 when the next quarterly reshuffle is calculated later this week, taking its place …
Charity Super.Mkt to open more pop-ups amid rising demand for secondhand clothes
‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’: meet the neuroscientist who believes life could be eternal
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett shouldn’t have survived beyond 11, the age at which she developed type 1 diabetes. Born in Albany, New York, Gossett received her diagnosis in 1918 when diabetes had no known treatment. Tragically, her life expectancy was just a matter of months. Her parents desperately searched for any …
Wedgwood Collection still revealing new treasures a decade after it was saved for the nation
It is one of the most important industrial collections in the world, with more than 175,000 artworks, ceramics and photographs, spanning two centuries of history.
by the charity Art Fund and gifted to the Victoria and Albert Museum 10 …Australia is connected to the world by cables no thicker than a garden hose – and at risk from sharks, accidents and sabotage
More than 1m kilometres of cables snake along the world’s ocean floor, ferrying data between distant lands. Fibre-optic filaments whisk emails, Netflix and military secrets through deep water, where the cord – about as thick as a garden hose – gathers barnacles and seaweed.
Australia is connected to 15 of …
British man dies in lift shaft during family holiday in Turkey
A young British man has died from injuries in a lift shaft while on a family holiday in Turkey.
Tyler Kerry, a 20-year-old labourer from Basildon, Essex, was discovered on Friday morning at the bottom of a lift shaft in a hotel he was staying at in Antalya.
Kerry’s uncle, …
Another tight draw as Ding Liren and Gukesh D battle for world chess title
Ding Liren and Gukesh Dommaraju played to a third successive draw in the sixth game of their world championship showdown on Sunday in Singapore, as the Indian teenager fought back from a questionable decision to decline a draw despite an inferior position to negotiate a bloodless result after 46 moves …
UK weather: Arctic blast will end unseasonably mild weekend
An Arctic blast will send temperatures as low as -12C in parts of the UK this week after an unseasonably mild weekend.
The hillier parts of Scotland are braced for the coldest weather, although forecasters expect widespread sub-zero conditions in rural areas on Monday and Tuesday.
The wintry start to …
Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first
Belgian sex workers have gained the right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world.
Lawmakers voted in May to give sex workers the same employment protections as any other employee, in an attempt to clamp down on abuse and …
Man arrested on suspicion of rape at the Groucho Club
A man has been arrested on suspicion of rape as part of an investigation into an alleged sexual attack at the Groucho Club in central London.
The Metropolitan police said a 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening at an address in Hertfordshire and remained in custody.
The investigation, which …