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The Greater Manchester mayor is bidding to win Thursday's parliamentary contest as he seeks a return to Westminster and the chance to challenge Keir Starmer .

The migration consultancy Henley & Partners said tax reforms, fiscal uncertainty and policy changes were prompting wealthy families in Britain to 'reassess their options'.

The gulf between the cost of a flat and a house has reached its highest level for 30 years, with buyer concerns over leasehold properties largely to blame.

It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Autoblog: For years, the Chinese auto industry has employed a hostile price war to kneecap global competitors. Armed with massive state subsidies, cheap raw materials, and an aggressive "scale-first" business model, Chinese automakers flooded the market with electric vehicles priced so low that legacy manufacturers stood no chance to compete. How did they do it? Simple, they couldn't. They did it anyway. Reports from CarNewsChina show that Chinese automakers have been selling vehicles at a loss until a recent law passed by the Chinese government banned below-cost sales of new vehicles. During the ongoing sales slump in China caused by rolled-back subsidies and direct government intervention banning below-cost sales, the truth behind the rapid expansion of the Chinese auto industry has been exposed. "By the first quarter of 2026, China captured 32 percent of the global auto market, with its New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) controlling an incredible 61 percent of global share," the report notes. Yet that dominance has come at a steep cost: throughout 2025, "the profit margin for China's auto industry plunged to 4.4 percent and dropped further to a historic low of 3.2 percent in early 2026." "Gross profit, not net profit, per vehicle, plummeted to a mere $2,000. We can expect the net figure to be loss-making." Autoblog adds: "Data shows over 70 percent of Chinese car sales were loss-making. This left more than half of the country's auto industry in the red. Great Wall Motor (GWM) even saw net profits drop 17 percent despite steady revenue growth." China's EV price war has now hit a wall. New regulations are discouraging below-cost sales, rising material costs are forcing automakers to cut discounts and raise prices, and reduced tax incentives are weakening domestic demand. To sustain growth, manufacturers are increasingly turning to exports.

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Footage of the incident, which took place in Sloane Avenue, West London, has sent social media users into a heated online debate over whether her actions placed the youngsters at 'risk'.

Ashlyn Reece Castro was seen alongside Jude Bellingham's parents, Mark and Denise at the Dallas Stadium in Texas, USA.

'The words I would say have no meaning.' It was perhaps the truest words that Rex Heuermann could have spoken as he was faced by the families of the eight young women who he murdered.

The US Federal Reserve yesterday left interest rates on hold in its first meeting under new boss Kevin Warsh - after he was installed by Donald Trump.

James Graham is a brilliant playwright who has made stage hits out of such unlikely subjects.

President Donald Trump turned on the charm Wednesday night as he arrived at the Palace of Versailles for a lavish dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte.

Today's anonymous submitter has spent a long time toiling through many, many tickets. Their effort has been an attempt to "save" their employer from the disaster left behind by by a highly-paid consultant. As one does, our submitter started with the highest priority tickets with the highest severity. Eventually, they whittled down that list, and had some bandwidth to start looking at the pieces of the code which clearly weren't exploding right now (because there were no tickets), but were likely to explode at some point in the future (creating a storm of tickets).

Scanning through the JavaScript, our submitter found a sort function. That was automatically concerning- why was that particular wheel being reinvented?

The first line of the sort function was this:

obj[x._id.account_id] = x.count_total

In this case, x._id is meant to be the unique identifier from their Mongo DB. That, uh, should be not precisely a UUID (Mongo does its own weird version), but it definitely shouldn't have an account_id field on it. They are storing an arbitrary object as their unique identifier in the database. Which, I'm no Mongo expert, but I don't need to be Flash Gordon to know that's a bad idea.

But setting aside the choice of using random objects as unique identifiers, there's also the other question: how is this furthering the goal of sorting? Why on Earth am I building an object in the form: {"id0": 5, "id1": 7, "id2": 11}? Or am I even doing that? This is the first line of the function, so we're not even doing a loop, it's just {"id0": 5}.

This isn't just an unexploded bomb, it's a mystery: the primary mystery being why hasn't this exploded already? The second mystery is: what's going to happen when your luck runs out?

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Who stood out from the crowd for England and who fluffed their lines and will be nervous about the teamsheet for the next group match, against Ghana next Tuesday?

The nurturing influence of the current side's family upbringings has been hailed, with mothers such as Kim Kane, Susan Pickford and Stephanie Rice recognised.

JEFF POWELL IN MEXICO CITY: Colombia have long been looked down upon as the poor cousins of South American football when it comes to World Cups.

The Scottish TV presenter, 66, packed up her life in Dundee and moved into the luxury riverside pad in 2017 to be closer to London for work.

He was the first child in the UK to have the procedure which saved his life

MIKE KEEGAN IN DALLAS: Thomas Tuchel delivered a dressing room dressing down to inspire England to victory in their World Cup opener.

In a stunning departure from decades of established US foreign policy, President Donald Trump revealed that a forthcoming peace agreement with Iran will likely allow the regime to retain its conventional ballistic missiles, arguing that a complete ban is unrealistic because 'they got to have some.'

Some teams have made better impressions than others. Germany's 7-1 hammering of tournament minnows Curacao has set the tone for Julian Nagelsmann's side.