10 h. ago Pfizer and Novo Nordisk sweeten offers for Metsera as bidding war intensifies

Improved pitches from both large pharma groups expected to be revealed later on Tuesday

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10 h. ago Novo Nordisk and Pfizer sweeten offers for Metsera as bidding war intensifies

Big pharma groups pitted against each other in bid to improve position in growing obesity market

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3 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star Lewis Cope makes series history as he secures huge score

Emmerdale star Lewis Cope has scored the first 40 of this year's Strictly Come Dancing after impressing all four judges with his Couple's choice set to a Radiohead classic

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7 d. ago Noel Gallagher's handwritten lyrics for Oasis hit Don't Look Back In Anger are sold for FIVE times their value as bidding war climbs to £20,000

The singer's words sold at auction for five times more than their valuation. Collectables company Propstore initially valued the handwritten relic for £4,000.

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1 week ago Britain leads allies' bid to 'choke off funding' for Russia's war machine

Sir Keir Starmer vowed to 'choke funding for Russia's war machine' - but Ukraine is to miss out on much needed long-range missiles. The UK, US and EU are combining to block Kremlin oil and gas.

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1 week ago Trump pardons founder of Binance, world’s largest crypto exchange

Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to failing to stop money laundering in 2023 and was sentenced to four monthsDonald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Thursday.“President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” a White House statement said. “The war on crypto is over.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago LAURA CRAIK: Now £180,000 buys you a fresh chance to bag a Birkin

Thousands of Hermes fans watched an electrifying bidding war play out between nine determined collectors via livestream.

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Repairs begin in bid to restore power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

UN watchdog says Russia and Ukraine have established special ceasefire zones to allow the repairs to be safely carried out. What we know on day 1,334Work has started to repair damaged power lines leading to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after a lengthy outage, the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Saturday. The site, occupied by Russian forces since March 2022, lost its connection to the grid on 23 September for the 10th time – the longest outage of external power supply to the facility since Russia invaded Ukraine.The repairs to the off-site power lines began after Russian and Ukrainian forces established “local ceasefire zones to allow work to proceed”, Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in a post on X. “Both sides engaged constructively with the IAEA to enable the complex repair plan to proceed,” Grossi said. “Restoration of off-site power is crucial for nuclear safety and security.” The agency said it expected the work to take about...

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3 w. ago Today's rugby news as Wales star at centre of bidding war and player dies in accident

The latest rugby news from Wales and around the world

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3 w. ago Huge bidding war looms for diaries of bonkbuster author Jilly Cooper 'that are even racier than Rivals'

The Rivals author, who died last week aged 88 after a fall, kept diaries for much of her life and had long warned friends they were far saucier than her famous 'bonkbuster' novels.

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3 w. ago Netflix or Disney could buy Champions League broadcast rights

The streaming giants, along with competitors such as Amazon and DAZN, look set for a bidding war over the ‘global first pick’ Champions League game from 2027

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3 w. ago Einstein's violin sells for £1million: Instrument that genius physicist hid from the Nazis sparks bidding war

The genius mathematician acquired the instrument shortly before leaving Munich to move to Switzerland for his studies in the mid 1890s.

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4 w. ago Kia Joorabchian’s £3.78m ‘early strike’ for colt shows big bloodstock ambition

Amo Racing founder beats Coolmore to Lot 15 by FrankelFootball agent aims to compete with richest operationsThe first seven-figure buy arrived within an hour on the opening day of the elite Book 1 sale at Tattersalls auction, and so too an early contender for the most tongue-in-cheek remark of the week. “An early strike,” said Kia Joorabchian, football super-agent and founder of the Amo Racing operation, after splashing 3.6m gns (£3.78m) on Lot 15, a bay colt by Frankel. “Hopefully, no more.”Joorabchian left last year’s Book 1 around £25m lighter in his wallet, but with 25 new yearling recruits as additional ammo for Amo. He has made no secret of his ambition to buy in at the top table of global Flat racing, and challenge the old money of John Magnier’s Coolmore Stud operation and the sovereign wealth of Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin, so he was never likely to stop at a single purchase this time around. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Kia Joorabchian secures score draw in auction bidding war with Sheikh Mohammed

The ambitious principal of Amo Racing secured the second most expensive yearling at the Tattersalls sale but lost out on the top lot to the Dubai ruler

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