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September 8, 2021 (Reuters) – Chelsea have been fined 25,000 pounds ($34,000) for failing to control their players in the 1-1 Premier League draw against Liverpool at Anfield last month, the Football Association (FA) said on Wednesday. Chelsea players clashed with their Liverpool counterparts and referee Anthony Taylor after the latter decided to send off […]

September 8, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration plans to take a tougher stance toward meatpacking companies it says are causing sticker shock at grocery stores. Four companies control much of the U.S. meat processing market, and top aides to President Joe Biden blamed those companies for rising food prices in a […]

September 8, 2021 By Foo Yun Chee and Kate Holton BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -Nvidia on Wednesday sought EU antitrust approval of its $54 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm, according to a European Commission filing, with regulators likely to echo worries similar to those voiced by the UK watchdog last month. The world’s biggest maker […]

September 8, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – The scramble to secure one of the remaining spots in Europe’s Ryder Cup team will be the main focus at this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth with seven places still up for grabs. Five players — Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Viktor Hovland and Paul Casey — […]

September 8, 2021 (Reuters) – Polish driver Robert Kubica will stand in for Kimi Raikkonen again for Alfa Romeo at Monza in Italy this weekend after the Finn continued to isolate due to testing positive for COVID-19. Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion with Ferrari, also missed last weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort and the […]

September 8, 2021 (Reuters) – Former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler has left his job as manager of East Bengal by mutual consent, the Indian Super League (ISL) club said on Wednesday, with Real Madrid Castilla coach Manuel Diaz set to be his replacement. The former England forward was appointed on a two-year contract by East […]

September 8, 2021 (Reuters) – North Korea has been suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) until the end of 2022, meaning it will miss out on the Beijing Winter Games, after failing to send a team to the Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach said on Wednesday. “The National Olympic Committee of Democratic People’s […]

September 8, 2021 By Sruthi Shankar and Ambar Warrick (Reuters) -European stocks marked their biggest decline in three weeks on Wednesday, a day before a European Central Bank meeting that will see policymakers debate a cut in its pandemic-era stimulus program. The Europe-focused STOXX 600 index fell 1.1%, with automobile stocks leading losses with a […]

September 8, 2021 By Silvia Aloisi VENICE (Reuters) – Circus freaks fight Nazi occupiers in Italian director Gabriele Mainetti’s dark fantasy movie “Freaks Out”, which is competing for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Set in 1943 Rome, the film tells the story of four circus performers – each with their own peculiar […]

It’s been a wildly unprecedented year and a half by any metric. The pandemic has utterly transformed many industries and made or broken others. In the world of technology, however, few categories were as well positioned to embrace a changed world than connected fitness. The space was well on its way prior to the arrival […]

Koyo, a fintech startup using open banking to offer loans to people with poor credit histories, has closed a Series A funding round of $50m in debt and equity led by Force Over Mass, with participation from existing investors Forward Partners, Frontline Ventures and Seedcamp. New investors in Koyo include Force Over Mass, Matt Robinson […]

September 8, 2021 By Frank Pingue (Reuters) -Olympic gold medallist Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth and Tony Finau were among the six captain’s picks named by Steve Stricker on Wednesday to a rookie-laden U.S. Ryder Cup team. Harris English, Daniel Berger and Scottie Scheffler rounded out the 12-man team and, along with Schauffele, will make their […]

September 8, 2021 By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Bank of Canada left rates unchanged on Wednesday and said it expects growth to strengthen in the second half following a shock contraction last quarter, though a fourth wave of COVID-19 and supply bottlenecks could weigh on the recovery. As expected, the central bank left its […]

September 8, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Adventurous Muscovites may soon be able to travel around parts of Moscow in driverless taxis as Russian tech giant Yandex plans to start testing the autonomous vehicles in the city this year, the company said on Wednesday. Yandex, which operates a raft of services from online search to food […]

September 8, 2021 By Pushkala Aripaka and Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) – Facebook has made a case for not selling Giphy in a strongly worded response to Britain’s competition regulator, and the tech firm questioned the watchdog’s call for divesting the GIF website over access and anti-competitive concerns. Facebook argued that “the inability of the CMA […]

September 8, 2021 WASHINGTON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has told Coinbase Global Inc that it plans to sue the cryptocurrency exchange if it goes ahead with plans to launch a programme allowing users to earn interest by lending digital assets, Coinbase said. The top U.S. markets regulator has issued Coinbase with […]

September 8, 2021 By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is on trial https://ift.tt/3l9HuFb in federal court in San Jose, California, on charges of defrauding investors and patients about the now-defunct company’s blood-testing technology. She has pleaded not guilty. Here is a timeline of key events leading up to the trial. 2003 – […]

September 8, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats will not include a provision to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit in a $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” spending measure they hope to pass this autumn, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday. Pelosi said the $28.5 trillion debt limit must be raised, but told a news conference she […]

September 8, 2021 ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Rebellious forces from the Tigray region killed 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, local officials told Reuters on Wednesday. The killings in a village 10 km (six miles) from the town of Dabat took place on Sept. 1 and 2, said Sewnet Wubalem, […]

A number of Spotify playlist curators are complaining that the streaming music company is not addressing the ongoing issue of playlist abuse, which sees bad actors reporting playlists that have gained a following in order to give their own playlists better visibility. Currently, playlists created by Spotify users can be reported in the app for […]