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Ridley Scott’s former London home has hit the market for £28 million (about $35 million.) The British director lived in the property for more than 15 years, according to Savills. Ridley Scott. Dominique Charriau/Getty Images Source: Savills Scott has directed many blockbusters including “Gladiator,” “Black Hawk Down,” and “Prometheus.” DreamWorks Pictures It is situated in Hampstead, an affluent, elevated part of north London that is home to other celebrities. Savills It’s the first time the property has been on the open market for over a quarter of a century, Savills said. The previous owner purchased it through a private sale…

Spanish strawberries are a spring treat for northern Europeans. They are also a flashpoint in a broader scramble for access to dwindling water resources. German campaigners are calling for a boycott of “drought strawberries”. The illegal extraction of water for this crop has drained a once-thriving Andalucían wetland.Water scarcity will be a defining characteristic of the next few decades, Lex believes. This will create new opportunities and new risks for investors.Demand for fresh water is rising in tandem with population and prosperity. Climate change is cutting rainfall. While water stress in Europe as a whole has declined, Spain has been…

CNN  —  Federal judge Aileen Cannon entered the public spotlight last summer when she oversaw court proceedings related to the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Now, the Trump-appointed federal judge has been initially assigned to oversee the former president’s new federal criminal case in Miami, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. If she remains on the case, Cannon would have wide latitude to control timing and evidence in the case and be able to vet the Justice Department’s legal theory. Trump faces a total of 37 counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s…

jxfzsy/iStock via Getty Images The Citi quantitative team is still confident about its Oversold Strategy, despite a second stumble in returns this year. “Our systematic Oversold Strategy posted its second loss (-4%) this year in May, as the equity market is following more closely on the credit market,” Hong Li, head of U.S. equity quantitative trading strategy, wrote in a note. “However, we believe that the continued uncertainty is still conducive to the strategy going forward, as it is not predicated on the overall market being oversold.” Li provides attractive oversold stocks that have a Citi Buy rating. The stocks…

England experienced a surge in sexually transmitted infections in 2022 driven by significant increases in gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia, according to figures released by the UK government.Across all age groups, 83,000 cases of gonorrhoea were diagnosed, the largest number since records began. Syphilis diagnoses are at their highest level since 1948. The latest annual figures follow much lower figures recorded in 2020 and 2021, in part because testing fell during the coronavirus pandemic. You are seeing a snapshot of an interactive graphic. This is most likely due to being offline or JavaScript being disabled in your browser. The highest STI…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with a displayed Intel logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration (Reuters) – Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner refuses to meet Intel Corp (NASDAQ:)’s demands for higher subsidies for its chip plant in the country, saying that there is no money in the budget, Financial Times reported on Sunday. “There is no more money available in the budget,” the newspaper quoted Lindner as saying in an interview, adding, “We are trying to consolidate the budget right now, not expand it.”

​You’ve undoubtedly heard about “quiet quitting,” the supposed pandemic workplace trend of “doing the least amount of work, just this side of being fired,” as journalist and author Julia Keller puts it in her new book, “Quitting.” ​Y​ou probably haven’t heard of something Keller calls “quasi-quitting.” That’s a kind of precision quitting, when you leave a full-time job with the intention of going off in a different direction. It’s about letting some things go, but not letting everything go. As Keller told me when I interviewed her by Zoom in her Ohio home, unretirement — when you quit a job in your 60s or so…

Foreign banks’ involvement in initial public offerings in mainland China has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, in a sign of the difficulties they face retaining a foothold in the country’s closed-off financial system.So far this year, foreign banks have been involved in just $297mn worth of new listings, or 1.2 per cent of the total. The proportion is lower than in any full year since Dealogic began collecting the data in 2009, when the banks were involved in about half of total listings by value. Last year’s 3.1 per cent represented the third-worst year on…

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to ban “child sexual mutilation” and lambasted the notion of biological men competing against female athletes as “demeaning” to women.Speaking at the North Carolina Republican Party’s convention in Greensboro, Trump got especially animated when discussing transgender issues.”I will keep men out of women’s sports,” Trump said to loud applause, making a weightlifting motion with his arms.The former president went on to say longstanding athletic records are being “obliterated,” specifically mentioning weightlifting. He told a story of a woman who he described as a “great champion” being able to lift “something like 218 pounds”…

Boarding1Now/iStock Editorial via Getty Images JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) and American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) are attempting to keep some elements of their alliance covering flights across the northeastern U.S. after a judge agreed to block the venture on antitrust grounds last month. JetBlue (JBLU) and American are asking that code sharing and loyalty plans be kept in place under the Northeast Alliance, according to a court filing on Friday. The push from the airlines comes after U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin last month granted the Justice Department’s request to permanently enjoin the airlines from continuing the Northeast Alliance, effective thirty days after…