76 m. ago Chris Eubank Jr FAILS to make weight for Conor Benn fight and is hit with huge $500,000 fine

Chris Eubank Jr has narrowly missed the middleweight limit ahead of his grudge match with Conor Benn, tipping the scales just half an ounce over the 160lb threshold during Friday's weigh-in.

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8 h. ago Gangster enjoyed £500,000 from his life of crime but only has to pay back £1

Paul Woodford was a trusted associate of a notorious gang leader

Economics

43 h. ago California expands its electric school bus fleet as federal freeze paused efforts elsewhere

California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses on the road

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48 h. ago Huge New Jersey wildfire continues to burn but evacuation orders lifted

The blaze covered more than 8,500 acres, with 3,000 residents forced to evacuate their homes and 25,000 without power

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2 d. ago Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its cultureA new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.Using the grant, GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP), which will be “dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors”, according to a statement by the college. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Why 500,000 Britons including my wife who signed up to this medical research trial MUST leave it now, writes DR MARTIN SCURR

My wife feels furious and let down. They are sentiments I share, alongside guilt for encouraging her to provide yet more data.

Science

3 d. ago Swiss drugmaker Roche to invest $50bn in US in effort to dodge Trump tariffs

Company says it will create 12,000 jobs in manufacturing and R&D over next five yearsBusiness live – latest updatesThe Swiss drugmaker Roche has said it will put $50bn (£37bn) into manufacturing in the US over the next five years, joining the queue of companies unveiling investments to try to head off potentially punitive Donald Trump tariffs.Roche said on Tuesday the investment would create more than 12,000 jobs, including 6,500 in construction and 1,000 at new and expanded existing facilities in the US, including factories and distribution centres in Kentucky, New Jersey and California. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 500,000 honeybees dead in suspected poisoning at Virginia farm

The farm and other local businesses are offering a $7,500 for information leading to an arrest

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7 d. ago World Snooker Championship: wide open tournament may herald new era

A record 10 Chinese players are in the main draw at the Crucible, where picking a winner is tougher than everIt has been fairly common in recent years to discuss the winds of change blowing through the World Snooker Championship. But this year, with talk of the Crucible’s future being quieter than usual, it is on the baize where a significant shift might be poised to take place.The usual suspects – for the most part – are still assembling in Sheffield for snooker’s most prestigious event. Some of them in quite imperious form, too. But whereas a case can often be made for no more than three or four players to take home the £500,000 top prize and world champion crown, this year there is a much more open field. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago GTA 6 trailer used by Florida police to show off drug dealer's seized Corvette

GTA 6 might be all about how a life of crime doesn't pay (or does), but Florida cops have taken the game's first trailer and used it to show off a seized muscle car

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8 d. ago Trump administration issues order to stop construction on New York offshore wind project

The Trump administration has issued an order to stop construction on a major offshore wind project to power more than 500,000 New York homes, the latest in a series of moves targeting the industry

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9 d. ago China to access NHS medical records of 500,000 patients despite MI5 fears

The NHS records of half a million British patients have been uploaded to the UK Biobank - and new figures show that one in five researchers granted access are from China

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9 d. ago China to gain access to NHS medical records from 500,000 patients despite MI5 fears that health data could be misused by Beijing

The information is being uploaded to the central database of the UK Biobank, a research hub that makes data available to universities, scientific institutes and private companies.

Science

1 week ago Ludvig Aberg’s Masters nightmare costs him over £500,000 in prize money

Ludvig Aberg was in contention for a playoff spot at the Masters and a huge sum of money before his round unravelled during the closing two holes at Augusta National

Economics

1 week ago Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fearsResearchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data, the Guardian can reveal.Preparations are under way to transfer the records to UK Biobank, a research hub that holds detailed medical information donated by 500,000 volunteers. One of the world’s largest troves of health data, the facility makes its information available to universities, scientific institutes and private companies. A Guardian analysis shows one in five successful applications for access come from China. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use itEurope is scrambling to remilitarise. The European Commission is raising a €150bn (£129bn) defence fund and is calling on EU countries to invest €650bn (£561bn) more. Germany has cast aside its government debt limit to invest hundreds of billions of euros in defence. Poland will train every male of fighting age for battle, and envisages an army 500,000 strong. Latvia’s president has urged the rest of Europe to conscript citizens, as Latvia does. Even neutral Ireland is buying combat jets. No wonder Europe’s defence industry is booming. In just a few months, the share prices of several big weapons manufacturers have nearly doubled and doubled again. But, despite this new martial pulse, the continent is still sleepwalking towards disaster.Europe can harden its shell and sharpen its claws, but it has done little to protect its soft underbelly against political manipulation. The US is capitulating to...

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1 week ago Mickey Rourke's '£500,000 fee slashed' after shock exit from Big Brother House

Mickey Rourke has been removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house with immediate effect after a disagreement with Chris Hughes and his fee could now be slashed

Economics

1 week ago Will Mickey Rourke get paid his full £500k Celebrity Big Brother fee after being ordered out of the house for threatening behaviour?

Mickey Rourke would have thought he'd hit the jackpot when he signed up to do Celebrity Big Brother after ITV agreed to pay him £500,000 for the stint.

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1 week ago Mickey Rourke's £500,000 fee 'to be slashed by ITV' after Celebrity Big Brother axe

Mickey Rourke's Celebrity Big Brother fee will reportedly be cut after the Hollywood star was booted from the ITV show's house over unacceptable behaviour and language

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1 week ago Lib Dems' biggest election donor unmasked as boss of axed asylum seeker hotel firm

Stay Belvedere Hotels enjoyed tens of millions in profits before being dropped by the government last month — now our investigation reveals its co-owner gave Ed Davey’s party nearly £500,000 in the weeks ahead of polling day

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