LONDON (Reuters) – Oasis’s debut album “Definitely, Maybe” returned to the top of the UK charts on Friday 30 years after its release, amid fan excitement over the British band’s reunion concerts next year. “Definitely, Maybe” went straight to No.1 when it came out in 1994, and the record went back to the top spot, …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s consumer watchdog on Friday said it has launched an investigation into Ticketmaster over the sale of Oasis tickets, a day after British regulators announced a similar probe. Thousands of fans waited hours in virtual queues in Britain and Ireland last weekend to get their hands on tickets for the band’s reunion …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A British man was jailed for nine years on Friday for arson at a hotel housing asylum seekers last month, by far the longest sentence imposed over a wave of anti-Muslim riots. Thomas Birley, 27, pleaded guilty to arson with intent to endanger life after stoking a fire in a bin by an …
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By Aby Jose Koilparambil (Reuters) -British high-end homebuilder Berkeley on Friday reiterated its annual profit forecast, saying trading has been stable over the first four months of its current fiscal year. The housing market is expected to benefit from the UK’s first rate cut in more than four years last month, as well as from …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices rose last month at the fastest annual pace since late 2022, data from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Friday, adding to signs of renewed momentum in the property market after a recent fall in interest rates. House prices increased by 4.3% in August, the biggest annual gain since November …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs an additional one trillion pounds ($1.3 trillion) in investment in the next decade to grow the economy, a report said on Friday. New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he wanted the economy to achieve annual growth of 2.5% when campaigning in the run-up to July 4’s election – a …
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(Reuters) – The first legally binding international AI treaty will be open for signing on Thursday by the countries that negotiated it, including European Union members, the United States and Britain, the Council of Europe human rights organisation said. The AI Convention, which has been in the works for years and was adopted in May …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out new legislation on Thursday to toughen the oversight of water companies, with penalties including imprisonment for bosses if they obstruct investigations into the contamination of rivers, lakes and seas. Sewage spills in the UK hit a record high in 2023, amplifying public anger at the state of the country’s dirty …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A former Deutsche Bank trader on Thursday lost her London lawsuit against the bank for just over 2.6 million pounds ($3.4 million) after she was not paid an individual bonus nearly a decade ago. Shikha Gupta worked until 2017 for Deutsche Bank’s non-core operating unit, which was set up in the wake …
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(Reuters) -England head coach Brendon McCullum aims to revitalise white-ball captain Jos Buttler, who will miss this month’s three-match Twenty20 series against Australia due to a right calf injury. Opener Phil Salt will lead the side in Buttler’s absence, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday. Buttler, who also missed The Hundred, …
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