(Reuters) -Toni Minichiello, who guided Britain’s Jessica Ennis-Hill to the heptathlon gold at the 2012 Olympics, has been banned for life after a disciplinary panel appointed by the UK Athletics (UKA) Board found him to have engaged in sexually inappr…
Meta raises $10 billion in first-ever bond offering
(Reuters) – Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Tuesday it had raised $10 billion in its first-ever bond offering, as it looks to fund share buybacks and investments to revamp its business. The offering would help Meta, the only one among big te…
Twitter down for thousands of users – Downdetector
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc was down for thousands of users on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed more than 32,000 outage reports. …
EU agrees to January deadline to comply with WTO ruling on steel import curbs
BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union and Turkey have agreed the bloc has until Jan. 16 next year to comply with a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling regarding its “safeguard” measures designed to curb steel imports, the WTO said on Tuesday. The EU …
Kistos walks away from bid to acquire North Sea’s Serica Energy
LONDON (Reuters) -North Sea investment firm Kistos on Tuesday walked away from its proposed offer to acquire British oil and gas group Serica Energy following weeks of wrangling. In July, Serica rejected Kistos’s cash and shares merger proposal, which …
UK faces danger of running out of monkeypox vaccine by this month – FT
(Reuters) – The UK will run out of monkeypox vaccines in about two to three weeks, as the country has little more than 8,300 doses of vaccine left, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing an internal National Health Service letter. Shipments of …
Tennis-Serena Williams to retire from playing after U.S. Open
By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – American great Serena Williams said on Tuesday she was “evolving away from tennis” and planned to retire from the sport she dominated with 23 Grand Slam titles following the U.S. Open tournament, which begins later t…
As German gas rationing looms, industry begs exemptions
By Tom Käckenhoff, Vera Eckert and Christoph Steitz DUESSELDORF/FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) -Germany’s network regulator, which would be in charge of gas rationing in the event of a supply emergency, has received scores of exemption requests from acro…
British postal workers to hold four days of strikes over pay
LONDON (Reuters) -British postal workers will hold four days of strikes in August and September in protest over pay, marking the latest announcement of industrial action in the country as workers demand wage rises to cope with soaring inflation. Rising…
Oil prices bounce around on Russian pipeline constraints, recession fears
By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices see-sawed on Tuesday, as worries that a slowing economy could cut demand vied with news that some oil exports had been suspended on the Russia-to-Europe Druzhba pipeline that transits Ukraine. Crude price…