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Justin Timberlake sells song catalogue in deal ‘worth just over $100m’
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Justin Timberlake has sold his song catalogue to Hipgnosis Song Management and a fund backed by the private equity firm Blackstone in a deal thought to be worth just over $100m (£75.5m). Hipgnosis offers investors the...
‘A life worth living’: bereaved mother and daughter set off on year-long drive across Africa
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Each journey of bereavement is different, and few young, widowed mothers might pack their life into a Land Rover Defender and set off with a young daughter to drive through Africa for a year. Six years after her husba...
Yours for $200m: why Warhol is now worth more than Picasso
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Andy Warhol: obsessively commercial pop artist, the patron saint of reality television, Facebook, Instagram, selfies, TikTok and every other imaginable fulfilment of his prophecy that in the future everyone will be fa...
World Bank planning to give support worth $1.5bn to Ukraine
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The World Bank is planning financial support to Ukraine worth $1.5bn (£1.2bn) to help keep critical services running as the country fights a fresh assault by Russia in Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war. The bank said the f...
Young people struggling amid inflation are entitled, says CEO worth about $400m
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Robert Kapito, the president of asset management behemoth BlackRock, earns about $20m a year and is worth in the region of $400m. You can buy a lot of fancy trinkets with that kind of money but, alas, it doesn’t seem ...
How can we define what Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané are worth?
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Naturally, the lasers lent the scene a certain pathos. As Mohamed Salah stepped up to take Egypt’s first penalty against Senegal on Tuesday night, the swarm of green laser beams dancing across his face were a reminder...
Eco changes at home – worth doing or a waste of energy? Try our sustainability quiz to find out
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Britain blocks luxury exports to Russia worth hundreds of millions
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Russian oligarchs will no longer have access to baubles such as the cars, artworks and designer handbags sold by British companies, after the government blocked exports worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Last year,...
Living in a woman’s body: when my child died, my every cell hurt. She was worth every tear I shed
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Grief is not a medical disorder to be cured. Grief is not a spiritual crisis to be resolved. Grief is not a social woe to be addressed. Grief is, simply, to be felt in our hearts and our minds and our bodies. I’ve bee...
Sting sells back catalogue to Universal Music in deal worth up to $300m
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Sting has sold his back catalogue, featuring hits including Roxanne, Every Breath You Take and Englishman in New York, to Universal Music in a deal thought to be worth up to $300m (£221m). The 70-year old, who found g...
Stokes and Bairstow show why England are still worth waking up for
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There comes a point on every Ashes tour when even the most ardent England fan has to ask whether the cricket is worth getting out of bed for. It’s a complex set of calculations in which you have to weigh the score in ...
LadBible founder worth £200m as shares rise after flotation
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The 30-year-old founder of LadBible, the company born out of a sexist Facebook page that became one of the one of the biggest global publishers on social media, is worth £200m after his business floated on the stock m...
Australian man Craig Wright wins US court battle for bitcoin fortune worth billions
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Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin, has prevailed in a civil trial against the family of a deceased business partner that claimed it was owed half of a cryptocurren...