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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Rome’s Colosseum is made of various materials including limestone, concrete and brick “I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble,” the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus, is said to have boasted 2,000 years ago. If he did, he was exaggerating. As UCLA’s Prof […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A Cray supercomputer is used by the Met Office for weather forecasting. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Cray Inc, maker of some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Cray Inc’s machines are capable of processing trillions of calculations per second and have been used by the UK’s

Image copyright Getty Images The pound has sunk to a four-month low against the dollar after cross-party Brexit talks between the Conservatives and Labour collapsed. By midday, the pound was 0.33% lower against the dollar at $1.2756 and on track for its worst week in a year. The pound is 1.85% lower this week, its

Image copyright Getty Images Online giant Amazon has announced a big investment in food courier Deliveroo. The exact figure was not given, but Amazon is the biggest investor in Deliveroo’s latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m). Deliveroo said it would use the money for international expansion, improving its service and

Image copyright Getty Images More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests. Of 1,151 polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% reporting they had received unwanted comments about their sex life from a colleague. More than a quarter

Image copyright British Steel British Steel says it has raised fresh funds from its backers as it seeks a “permanent solution” to its financial troubles. It comes after the firm admitted on Tuesday it needed further financial support from the government to help it address “Brexit-related issues”. Reports have suggested the steelmaker needs up to

Image copyright Press Association All landing cards for international passengers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from Monday. Landing cards are currently filled in by passengers arriving in the UK by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area. Border Force director general Paul Lincoln, in a letter to staff, said it would

Image copyright BT Group Image caption Philip Jansen became BT boss in January Staff at BT are to get a payout of £500 a year in company shares, new boss Philip Jansen has said. The awards are meant to improve motivation as the firm continues with a difficult turnaround plan. Britain’s largest telecoms company is

WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – Federal Aviation Administration acting chief Dan Elwell told lawmakers on Wednesday he expects Boeing Co to submit a software fix for the grounded 737 MAX involved in two fatal crashes for approval soon, and said he was concerned by the planemaker’s lengthy delay in disclosing a software anomaly. At a

Image caption This House of Fraser store closed down last September The government says it will make it easier to find out who owns empty buildings on the High Street in a bid to revitalise the UK’s retail sector. It said a new register would allow prospective tenants to quickly check ownership and speed up