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10 great books that Fast Company staff want you to read this year
It’s time to reckon with the reality that nonstop doomscrolling has delivered us: a hard-to-ignore erosion of our cognitive skills. We’ve…
Susan Darwin
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MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. Understanding AI’s energy use was a huge global conversation…
News
Tributes as Leicester's Manjula Sood - UK's first female Asian lord mayor - dies
Tributes have been paid after the death of a councillor who became the UK's first female Asian lord mayor. Manjula Sood, who was 80, was…
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Data shows the ‘Made in USA’ brand still suffered under tariffs
In Denmark, a grocery store chain used a black star. In Canada, it was a maple leaf. President Donald Trump’s trade war inspired new…
News
The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place
Modern approaches, as demonstrated everywhere from California supermarket rooftops to Japan’s Expo 2025 pavilion, go even further.…
Business
Hundreds take the plunge at festive sea dip in Lowestoft
Aerial pictures showed a crowd of people running into the sea at one of the few Christmas Day dips to go ahead. Organisers of the swim in…
News
‘Meme depression,’ Ghibli-gate, 6-7: An internet-culture roundup for 2025
For the chronically online, 2025 was the year of “brain rot”, AI slop, and “rage bait,” a time of consuming Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate…
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1MDB: Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak found guilty of abusing power and money laundering
A Malaysia court has convicted former prime minister Najib Razak for abuse of power and money laundering, in his second major trial for a…
Business
Why there are so many successful family businesses
When you hear the phrase “family business,” you might think of the backstabbing Roys of Succession or the dysfunctional Duttons of…
Culture
The Ashes 2025 fourth Test - day one highlights: England trail Australia as 20 wickets fall on hectic day
England put in another disappointing batting display by failing to chase down Australia's opening tally of 152, as day one of the fourth…
Culture
The Ashes 2025-26: England bowled out for 110 as 20 wickets fall on day one of Boxing Day Test
England's Ashes tour teetered on another crisis as they were bowled out for 110 on an almost farcical first day of the fourth Test at the…
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5 Ways AI Changed Work in 2025
2025 was unquestionably the year of the AI boom at work. When generative AI like ChatGPT entered the scene a few years ago, it started as…
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How to use AI to design your year
If you’re an entrepreneur, at the end of the year you’re probably excited about the prospect of time off, but also daunted by the new…
Business
I'm watching brain surgery to see if Alzheimer's can ever be cured
James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Is curing Alzheimer's disease an impossible challenge or can we get there? To find out…
Business
The Ashes 2025 fourth Test - day one: England 8-3 as Australia pile on pressure early
England's innings gets off to a horror start, as Australia take three early wickets to leave the visitors on 8-3 inside the first five…
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Should a top Russian archaeologist face trial for digging in occupied Crimea?
Grigor Atanesian & Investigations TeamBBC News Russian A Russian archaeologist detained in Poland is at the centre of an intense debate…
Business
I have no regrets about regifting - What to do with unwanted presents
Most of us have received at least one Christms present that missed the mark - a jumper that doesn't fit, a hideous ornament or a perfume…
Business
The Ashes 2025 fourth Test - day one: England's Josh Tongue bowls Australia's Steve Smith for nine
Josh Tongue takes his third wicket of the innings, dismissing Steve Smith for nine to leave Australia 51-4 on day one of the fourth Ashes…
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US launches 'powerful strikes' against Islamic State in Nigeria, says Trump
President Donald Trump has said the US launched a "powerful and deadly strike" against the Islamic State (IS) group in north-western…
Culture
Sydney Sweeney: I want to make films on domestic violence that 'save lives'
Annabel RackhamCulture reporter Sydney Sweeney wants to make films that will "impact and hopefully save people's lives", she has told the…
Business
Newcastle stadium plans 'in limbo' - Eddie Howe
St James' was once the second-biggest club stadium in the country, behind Old Trafford, but Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, West Ham United,…
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Australia v England: fourth Ashes Test, day one – live
Preamble So here it is … Merry Christmas! Everybody’s having fun (except perhaps Ben Duckett). Look to the future now, it’s only just…
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Strictly Come Dancing: Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman say farewell on Christmas special
Paul Glynn,Culture reporterand Noor Nanji,Culture correspondent Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman embraced on the dancefloor as they signed…
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The Business of Power: How Hollywood’s Most Authentic Action Star Is Building an Empire Beyond the Screen
Shannon Ritch doesn’t enter a room so much as recalibrate it. There’s a stillness to him—earned, not performed—that speaks to decades of…