Image copyright AFP/PA Image caption Dame Moya Greene, Dame Minouche Shafik and Emma Walmsley are backing the campaign A group of 100 of the UK’s most successful businesswomen have launched a campaign to close the gender pay gap. Some of corporate Britain’s biggest names are behind the #MeTooPay initiative including Dame Minouche Shafik, potentially the […]
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“This is just one effort, but it is trying to address the larger issue of whether the digital advertising business will be more like the open internet, open to many, or will it be dominated by a few walled gardens?” said Randall Rothenberg, chief executive of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is aware of the
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Novak Djokovic reached the quarterfinals of the Japan Open on Wednesday by beating Japanese wild-card entry Go Soeda 6-3, 7-5. Djokovic, who is attempting to win a title on his tournament debut for the 10th time, hit 10 aces and saved three of four break points. Djokovic retired with a left-shoulder injury during his fourth-round
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSeren Jenkins says cancer will not stop her looking her best A teenage cancer patient has joined a campaign to help other young people who are struggling with their body image during treatment. Seren Jenkins, 19, from Blackwood in Caerphilly, is in remission after treatment for Hodgkin
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mathew Knowles with daughter Beyonce in 2007 Mathew Knowles, the father of pop singers Beyonce and Solange Knowles, has revealed he has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 67-year-old has spoken about his condition in an interview with Good Morning America, which will air on US TV network ABC
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Image caption Mr Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in the 1980s Martin Gilbert is to leave Standard Life Aberdeen after nearly four decades with the business. The vice chairman of the group and chairman of Aberdeen’s investment arm said he would step down in September next year. Mr Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in the
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There are no lines on the road — and very few paved roads to paint a line on. There are no chains and no commercialization. There is no A.T.M., no restaurant open year-round, and the first police station is currently under construction. Here, visitors are guests, not tourists. I stayed in Ms. Matas’s homestead property
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A Swedish recycling mill has developed a new way to reprocess old clothes. Used cotton fabrics are separated and “de-dyed” to remove colour before being turned into a pulp called circulose. The pulp is dried and then sold to textile companies to make thread. Garments made using this process can be recycled several more times.
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Cardiff says it will appeal to sport’s highest court against FIFA’s ruling that the club should pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) to Nantes as a first installment of the transfer fee for Emiliano Sala. The Argentine striker died in an airplane crash near the Channel Island of Guernsey on Jan. 21 before playing a
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For one brief, terrifying moment this summer, the word “recession” was on everyone’s lips — the stuff of television segments, front-page articles and Google searches. Then, just as abruptly, everything started to look pretty much fine. The trade war with China went into another of its periodic phases of de-escalation, as the Trump administration seemed
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