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Pinterest prices its IPO at $19 per share, valuing the firm at $10 billion

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Tech unicorn Pinterest priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $19 per share, valuing the social media giant at $10 billion. Pinterest originally proposed a...
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Advanced alien civilisations more likely in globular clusters

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Extremely advanced alien civilisations are more likely to exist in globular clusters – areas of densely packed stars in a ball just 100 light-years...

US inflation reaches 40 year high

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Prices in the US just continue going up. According to the US Labor Department, the annual inflation rate rose to 7.9% last month --...
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Tatooine-like planets with twin sunsets likely widespread

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Tatooine, a fictional desert planet, Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker’s home, has twin sunsets because it exists in a binary star system (solar system with...
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What are the top 100…? Behind the rankings

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Top 100 reports abound, and behind each one there is a good dose of personal bias and subjective selection. As readers, we have no choice...
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Was the Royal Mail sale too cheap?

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Royal Mail shares, which sold at 330p per share, rose to 456p, an increase of 38% at the beginning of conditional dealings on the...
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Do Narcissistic CEOs perform better than others?

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When it comes to financial measures, narcissistic CEOs perform better than others, researchers found in a new study. This “dark side of the executive...
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150000 penguins presumed dead maybe joined other colonies

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The 150000 penguins that had been presumed dead because a massive iceberg landlocked them, may simply have wandered off to join other colonies and...
Kunekune pigs block A21 after escaping from field

Cute pigs close down A21 near M25 for several hours

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The London-to-Hastings trunk road, the A21, was closed down by a group of  cute Kunekune pigs that escaped from a farm and were probably...

H5N1 (bird flu) threat minimal for humans, says NIH

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US authorities said that H5N1 avian influenza A (bird flu) virus (HPAI H5N1) is still a low risk to humans. Health experts believe that...