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Uber shares have fallen after reports technology investment firm SoftBank is selling around a third of its stake in the US ride-hailing app. According to one report SoftBank is offloading around $2bn

Jen Potter is a chartered planning consultant, and has been working in town planning in Manchester for nearly 12 years. But since the pandemic she’s made some big life changes. After spending

A tedious but consequential task kept Daniel Ellsberg busy for weeks from the end of 1969. One by one, he photocopied thousands of top-secret documents that he hoped would end a long

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quietly signed a bill Wednesday barring Texas police departments from participating in reality television shows like Cops and Live PD more than two years after Javier Ambler, the Black Austin man whose

UK plastic waste is being exported to Turkey and then illegally dumped and burned, according to a report. Greenpeace said about 40% – or 210,000 tonnes – of the UK’s plastic waste exports

An Australian court has ordered mining magnate and politician Clive Palmer to pay 1.5m Australian dollars ($1.2m; £0.8m) to the record label of heavy metal act Twisted Sister. In Australia’s 2019 federal

In the grounds of Nunsmere Hall Hotel, in the heart of rural Cheshire, Chris Naylor has a huge, permanent, marquee which can seat more than 400 people. If he ran a restaurant

Deliveroo shares have plummeted on its stock market debut after a number of major UK investors expressed concerns about its gig economy worker model. Shares in the food delivery business had been

Google Maps will start directing drivers to routes it calculates to be the most eco-friendly based on a list of factors. The search engine said it will highlight journeys that generate the

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown Britain’s High Streets into crisis, yet the full force of its impact has yet to be felt, according to accountants PwC. More than 17,500 chain stores and

Twitter has posted record revenues for the last quarter of 2020, capping off what its chief executive said was “an extraordinary year” for the platform. The social messaging platform said revenue grew

Joseph Jones doesn’t find the gruelling physical demands of his job at Amazon particularly troubling – he can walk as many as 17 miles per shift. The firm’s attitude towards his work,