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Over the past one, three, five and ten years, it has outperformed the average of its global fund peer group.

Whatever reason you're investing - or could be convinced to - I'd guess it's not to drive economic growth. Yet, that's precisely what the Chancellor wants us to do.

Its parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance, is being taken over by buyout barons at Sycamore Partners in a deal worth nearly £18.4 billion.

There is a pattern. Trump announces tariffs. The markets plunge. The Donald retreats.

Eros Media World had agreed to stump up the money to long-suffering investors who bought a bond issued by the Indian group on the London Stock Exchange in 2014.

For a President who has hung so much credibility on his economic prowess, this is far from an ideal scenario.

With the US threatening to downgrade its commitment to Nato, Europe has little choice but to dig deep and build more weaponry to keep the Russian bear at bay.

The country's biggest arms manufacturers, including BAE Systems, Babcock and Chemring, have said they stand ready to meet an 'unparalleled' surge in demand.

While many scientists are self-proclaimed atheists, three have shared the remarkable events that led them to embrace spirituality and the idea that their careers and faith can coexist.

Laura, a 22-year-old student from Manchester, is one of an increasing number of young women bidding their virginity on escort sites in exchange for large sums of cash.

Taylor and Megan Kovar, 38, from Texas, sold their companies and headed out on an adventure with their three kids. But after three months away, they realized the lifestyle just wasn't for them.

"PepsiCo is launching a new product, Simply Ruffles Hot & Spicy, which uses natural ingredients like tomato powder and red chile pepper instead of artificial dyes," reports Bloomberg. But it's part of a larger trend: In one of the final acts of President Joe Biden's administration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned Red No. 3, effective in January 2027 for food, one of a handful of synthetic colors that have become something of a symbol of all that is wrong with the American food system and the ultraprocessed foods that dominate it. Putting Red No. 3 aside, the rest of the colors remain legal, and they're used in tens of thousands of supermarket and convenience-store products in the United States, according to NielsenIQ data. The recent campaign against them became one of the pillars of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement championed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The criticism follows what health advocates have been saying for years: The synthetic colors add nothing to taste, nutritional value or shelf life but make unhealthy foods more visually appealing. Worst of all, there are concerns that the dyes may be carcinogenic or trigger hyperactivity in some kids. [Ian Puddephat, vice president of research and development for food ingredients at PepsiCo] says PepsiCo is "on a mission to get them out of the portfolio as much as we can"... PepsiCo has a dozen brands, including Simply, that don't have the artificial dyes, and the company is working to pull them out of an additional eight brands in the next year. Other companies are trying too, according to the article. Though Ironically, "the supply chain for colors like a radish's red or annatto's orange is not as robust as that for Red No. 40 or Yellow No. 6." But there's also been some success stories: In 2016, Kraft Heinz Foods Co. announced that it'd made good on an earlier promise to get artificial dyes out of its recipe — and apparently, nobody noticed. "We just haven't told that story," says Carlos Abrams-Rivera, Kraft Heinz's CEO. (The lack of artificial dyes is more prominent on the boxes now...) Thanks to long-time Slashdot schwit1 for haring the article.

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WEARING a £1,995 tuxedo dress, designed by her stepsister Daisy, Earl Mountbatten's granddaughter Phoebe, posed on the steps of Kensington and Chelsea Register Office.

Simon was told to lie down and keep very still, while the crew and warned him of how important that it was for him to still as 'things could go wrong'.

The former TOWIE star, 32, rose to fame after joining the ITV reality series as a full time member in 2016.

A special investigation team in Koppal town, southern Karnataka, has since arrested two of the three suspects on suspicion of attempted murder, gang rape and robbery.

Paris Jackson clapped back after receiving criticism for the very sheer black dress she wore to Stella McCartney 's Paris Fashion Week show on Wednesday.

Tina Knowles doesn't want her granddaughter to go into show business. The 71-year-old is the mother of global superstar Beyoncé - who has Blue Ivy as well as seven-year-old twins Rumi and Sir.

Nicola Sturgeon was booed and subjected to chants of 'shame on you' by female protesters at an International Women's Day event yesterday.

"The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented 'backdoor' that could be leveraged for attacks," writes BleepingComputer. "The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence." This was discovered by Spanish researchers Miguel Tarascó Acuña and Antonio Vázquez Blanco of Tarlogic Security, who presented their findings yesterday at RootedCON in Madrid. "Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices," reads a Tarlogic announcement shared with BleepingComputer. "Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls...." Tarlogic developed a new C-based USB Bluetooth driver that is hardware-independent and cross-platform, allowing direct access to the hardware without relying on OS-specific APIs. Armed with this new tool, which enables raw access to Bluetooth traffic, Targolic discovered hidden vendor-specific commands (Opcode 0x3F) in the ESP32 Bluetooth firmware that allow low-level control over Bluetooth functions. In total, they found 29 undocumented commands, collectively characterized as a "backdoor," that could be used for memory manipulation (read/write RAM and Flash), MAC address spoofing (device impersonation), and LMP/LLCP packet injection. Espressif has not publicly documented these commands, so either they weren't meant to be accessible, or they were left in by mistake. Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news.

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