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Rod Stewart to play legends slot at Glastonbury next year
Date: November 26, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Rocker Rod Stewart will play the legends slot at Glastonbury 2025, the first act confirmed for next year’s edition of the British music festival. His Sunday afternoon performance will be the 79-year-old singer’s first at Worthy Farm in southwest England since he last took to the festival’s Pyramid stage in 2002. “I’m...
French genAI startup LightOn rises on market debut
Date: November 26, 2024
(Reuters) – Shares of LightOn, Europe’s first listed genAI startup, rose as much as 9% on their debut on the Euronext Growth market in Paris on Tuesday. The stock was trading at 10.79 euros per share by 0841 GMT, 4.2% higher than the 10.35 euros it was valued at during its initial public offering last...
Russian rouble at 32-month low, a boon for exporters, minister says
Date: November 26, 2024
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian rouble continued to slide, dropping to its lowest since March 2022 against both the dollar and the yuan, and the finance minister indicated the government did not object to the currency’s weakness, an advantage for exporters. The rouble hit 14.5 against China’s yuan for the first time since March 2022....
Job boom creates Swiss immigration headache for EU trade talks
Date: November 26, 2024
By Dave Graham ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland is scrambling to keep a lid on immigration from its top trade partner, the European Union, as a jobs boom powered by the country’s low-tax business model turns population growth into a political hot potato. The issue helped derail talks in 2021 to overhaul rules governing some 300...
Soccer-Man United keeper Onana honoured by FIFPRO for charity work in Cameroon
Date: November 26, 2024
By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana has won the FIFPRO Impact Award for humanitarian work, for the medical care his foundation provides to underprivileged communities in Cameroon and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Doctors have performed more than 1,200 surgical operations over the past three years in collaboration with...
Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children
Date: November 26, 2024
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Google and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms urged the Australian government on Tuesday to delay a bill that will ban most forms of social media for children under 16, saying more time was needed to assess its potential impact. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left government wants to pass the bill, which...