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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Commissioner Jay Monahan has informed congressional members the PGA Tour was “left on our own” to fend off Saudi Arabia’s bid to take over the game with LIV Golf due to the United States’ geopolitical alliance with the dominion. ...

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest-serving post-war prime minister, is lifeless and, as a key participant within the nation's ruling coalition till his passing, there may be a lot debate over what it means for Italian politics.Yet Mr Berlusconi's profession in politics solely got here after his success in commerce - and much more attention-grabbing is the query of what occurs to his enterprise empire. Although trophy property equivalent to AC Milan - offloaded to a Chinese purchaser in 2017 - have lengthy since been bought, Mr Berlusconi nonetheless owned a major variety of companies on the time of his passing, the futures of which are actually the topic of a lot hypothesis.Mr Berlusconi's fundamental holding firm, Fininvest, is chaired by his eldest baby, Marina, 56, whereas...

Uncle Sam’s earnings has plummeted this yr, sending the federal deficit spiraling deeper into the pink than analysts had predicted and leaving officers greedy for solutions. ...

British tech firms and universities are to obtain hundreds of thousands of kilos of funding to develop new know-how that generates solar energy from area.The quickly rising know-how collects power from the solar utilizing photo voltaic panels connected to satellites, which then beam it again to Earth utilizing wi-fi know-how. Generating energy from area has enormous potential to spice up the UK's power safety, stated Grant Shapps, the UK's power safety secretary."By winning this new space race, we can transform the way we power our nation and provide cheaper, cleaner and more secure energy for generations to come," stated Mr Shapps, who will present extra element in a speech this afternoon at London Tech Week. Image: California Tec...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Tuesday criticized new sanctions imposed by the United States on firms believed to be concerned in coaching Chinese navy pilots and aiding weapons improvement. ...

The excessive avenue clothes big Next is in talks a few sale of Reiss, the style chain it controls, as a part of a deal that would worth it at greater than £500m.Sky News has learnt that Next and its fellow Reiss shareholder, Warburg Pincus, are working with bankers on an public sale of the enterprise, which was based in 1971 by David Reiss. Raymond James, the funding financial institution, is overseeing the sale course of.City sources stated on Tuesday that the public sale was in its second spherical, with plenty of consumers circling.Based on anticipated earnings earlier than curiosity, tax, depreciation and amortisation within the present monetary yr of just about £65m, Reiss might be valued at in extra of £500m, in response to the sources. ...

The competitors regulator says it has taken Sainsbury's and Asda to job over "unlawful" land agreements that stop rival chains opening shops close by.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stated it had discovered 32 examples the place the chains had positioned restrictions on land agreements which, it stated, was anti-competitive. The watchdog is already investigating the grocery sector as a complete over fears customers could also be getting a uncooked deal on the until amid the price of residing disaster, with meals inflation hovering at document ranges.The CMA discovered that Sainsbury's and Asda, who respectively maintain the second and third highest market shares within the UK, "breached the Groceries Market Investigation (Controlled Land) Order 2010, which was bro...

The proprietor of British Gas has revealed it expects income for its family provide enterprise to return in "significantly higher" over the primary half of the 12 months.Centrica made the announcement forward of its annual normal assembly (AGM) the place bosses are anticipated to face an investor revolt over a pay report that features a close to five-fold improve within the bundle awarded to chief govt Chris O'Shea. The firm stated in its replace that the anticipated revenue hike in its retail division, which incorporates British Gas, was primarily right down to a discount in debt-related prices quite than any buying and selling windfall from document costs.Energy regulator Ofgem's value cap gives an allowance to account for debt on vitality payments that can not be recovered...

The newest snapshot of Britain's labour market reveals an financial system nonetheless restrained by employee shortages with wage inflation pushed to a brand new post-pandemic peak that, in flip, will increase the chance of one other rate of interest enhance subsequent week.The ONS information reveals wages rose by 7.2% within the three months to April, increased than anticipated and a determine that may weigh closely within the Bank of England's calculations concerning the path of charges. Adjusted for CPI inflation actual wages - the spending energy of the pound in your pocket - fell 2.3% demonstrating the problem of the present inflationary setting.That wage progress, sharper than anticipated, got here regardless of what seems to be a slight easing of a jobs market that ha...

HSBC's UK boss has warned that mortgage prices have additional to rise however it's "trying to limit the pain".Ian Stuart informed Sky's Ian King Live it had 300,000 clients coming off mounted price offers this yr and admitted they confronted a shock within the present market. "If you took a mortgage maybe two years ago or five years ago, myself included, you will come off a mortgage rate of around 1.5% and your new mortgage is going to cost something closer to 5%."This shouldn't be a topic to be flippant on. This is a really, essential matter in UK society at the moment."He was speaking as financial markets and economists widely expect the Bank of England to maintain, next week, its policy of raising Bank rate to combat inflation. The 12 consecutive will...