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Why heatwaves hit women harder - Published Overwhelmed, irritable, dizzy, bloated, exhausted. These are the words coming up frequently in comments sent to the BBC by women who, having barely recovered from the record-breaking heat in June, are bracing for more hot weather. Extrem

It was 'love at first sight' with their adopted baby. Then they were told he may have been trafficked - Published When David and Ally first saw Marcus, they knew he was destined to be their son. "For me it was love at first sight," said David. Their long adoption journey had come

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A judge has approved a $1.5 million penalty levied against Elon Musk that will settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit despite having “significant misgivings” about it. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan noted that her court would accept the settlement, Bloomb

I run the UK's biggest bank, here are five ways to manage your money - Published Charlie Nunn is CEO of Lloyds Banking Group - the UK's biggest bank providing one in four current accounts - meaning he has a deep insight into customers' spending, saving and borrowing. Here are his

Paralympic great Storey retires from GB competition - Published Dame Sarah Storey, Great Britain's most-decorated Paralympian, has retired from international competition with immediate effect. The 48-year-old cyclist has opted not to compete at Los Angeles 2028 to focus on helpin

Off the Wire Press Releases MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France, July 8, 2026 – The European consortium ÆTHER today unveiled the composition of its founding members and announced its application for the European Commission’s forthcoming AI Gigafactory call for proposals, to be launched as p

Commercial space ventures in the US and China are tapping broader pools of capital as the superpowers vie for dominance in a fierce space race. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is seeking its first outside capital, aiming to raise $10 billion at a valuation of about $130 billion, The New

The percentage of US citizens currently taking GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy for weight loss has almost quadrupled to 11% from 3% in 2024. A further 4% of Americans say they’ve used the drugs in the past, Gallup polling found. Meanwhile, US obesity rates, which peaked in 2022 at 39.

Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion — exactly double the $6.6 billion valuation the company achieved last December, Sifted reported. Menlo Ventures, a firm that announced its latest $3 billion fund last month,

President Donald Trump offered both sticks and carrots to NATO, threatening to cut off trade with Spain before offering rare praise for the alliance. At the summit on Wednesday, Trump reignited his feud with Madrid over the Iran war, made renewed claims on Greenland, and rehashed

Off the Wire Press Releases July 8, 2026 – Giga Computing, a subsidiary of GIGABYTE and a leader in accelerated computing and infrastructure solutions, today announced the expansion of its GIGAPOD AI and HPC infrastructure portfolio, introducing multiple pre-configured POD soluti

The global economy will grow at a slower rate in 2026, the IMF said Wednesday, as high energy prices resulting from the Iran conflict drag on growth and drive inflation. The fund lowered its global forecast to 3%, down from April and below the last two years’ averages, but noted

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Off the Wire Press Releases SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 8, 2026 — Parasail and d-Matrix today announced Parasail is deploying d-Matrix Corsair inference accelerators alongside the NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA Blackwell architectures to deliver up to 10x faster, more c

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that while Wall Street was focused on re-escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, he is more concerned about a flood of new stock and bond issuance that could threaten the bull market. "At least when it comes to the stock market, I'm a lot m

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that while Wall Street was focused on re-escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, he is more concerned about a flood of new stock and bond issuance that could threaten the bull market. "At least when it comes to the stock market, I'm a lot m

The Iran war has reignited and the U.S. may need European allies more than ever, but President Donald Trump left a NATO summit in Turkey on Wednesday without announcing any new commitments from the defense alliance to assist with the conflict. He instead delivered mixed signals a

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would make a long-shot bid to get the Supreme Court to rehear the case in which it ruled against his executive order that sought to sharply restrict birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court on June 30 held that babies born in the Unite

Children keep dying in a country that made huge progress on measles - Published "I have never seen an outbreak this huge," says paediatrician Dr Mohammed Golam Mawla, as we look around a measles ward in the Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh. Until March this year, Bangladesh had mad

Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said he bought shares of regulated sports-betting operators DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment, anticipating regulators will eventually crack down on prediction markets after competition from the upstarts pressured the stocks. Burry said We

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison issued a directive Wednesday to autonomous vehicle (AV) developers, stating that it is unacceptable for their vehicles to interfere with first responders or law enforcement. Morrison noted in t

Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. They don’t need to use generative AI to cheat on exams; they could just learn the material. But they also tend to be competitive, ambitious, and overscheduled, so AI can look like an easy shortcut that makes more time i

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Levi Strauss beat Wall Street's quarterly expectations on the top and bottom lines on Wednesday, leading the retailer to increase its guidance and its dividend. The denim maker is now expecting full-year adjusted earnings per share to be between $1.46 and $1.52, up from a prior r