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UK beauty blogger Amena Khan says she’s pulling out of a L’Oreal campaign.In a post on Instagram she says she’s stepping down from the campaign “because of the current conversations surrounding it”.Her decision follows the discovery of

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UK bookmakers have seen their shares fall sharply after a report suggesting the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals could be slashed.Ministers are likely to cut the stake from £100 to £2 after a consultation closes, according to the Sunday Times.Shares in

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Prospects for the global economy are looking brighter, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).It reckons the recent pick-up has been pretty broad-based, particularly in Europe and Asia. Tax reforms in the United States are expected to stimulate economic

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Talks between Britain’s biggest union and Vauxhall’s French owner PSA Group were “frank” but useful, the sides say.Unite head Len McCluskey was in Paris for a meeting with PSA chief executive Carlos Tavares about the future of Vauxhall’s

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Kim Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, is suing the New Zealand government for billions of dollars in damages over his arrest in 2012.The internet entrepreneur is fighting extradition to the US to stand trial for copyright infringement and fraud. Mr

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In a move that could revolutionise the way we buy groceries, Amazon has opened a supermarket with no checkout operators or self-service tills.Long queues formed outside the Amazon Go store in Seattle before it opened its doors to the public on Monday. It uses hundreds

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Carillion’s collapse was for many people a bolt from the blue – a large UK company that had no obvious problems went bust in a little more than a year.Even the company’s directors seemed to have no idea what was about to happen. In the annual report

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Donald Trump took his place in the White House exactly one year ago. Since then he has repeatedly claimed to be behind a new rise in the American economy. Here, six charts explore his relationship with US growth, the labour market and trade.1. The American economy is

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A California start-up chaired by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is trying to turn the dream of a high-speed pod-and-tube transport system into a reality.The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones travelled to Virgin Hyperloop One’s test site in Nevada, US, to

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