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2022-01-28 15:12:18 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: With prices starting at $104,000, you could buy your own island, complete with a villa. The catch? It only exists online. Would you fork out for property in the Metaverse?

China has offered support for Russia in the face of its stand-off with the US and Nato over Ukraine, saying Moscow had “reasonable security concerns” that Washington and its allies should take ‘seriously’.

Apple’s revenue has hit another record as it navigates the supply chain crunch. The iPhone maker posted revenue of $123.9bn in the fourth quarter of 2021, an 11% gain from a year before.

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2022-01-27 19:29:49 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: Big Four firm Deloitte will allow staff to work on public holidays such as Christmas Day and take another ‘meaningful’ day off instead, in a drive to improve diversity and inclusion.

The Facebook-led Diem cryptocurrency project is preparing to sell its assets, as the social media giant admits defeat in its once-sprawling digital payments ambitions.

The EU has launched a case against China at the World Trade Organization over its de facto ban on exports from Lithuania in a dispute over Taiwan.

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2022-01-26 15:59:08 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: Amazon has abandoned its much-maligned campaign of paying employees to share positive messages on social media, scrubbing online messages that were meant to improve the tech giant’s image to potential workers.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told Tory MPs 'we’ll get through this' as he prepares to receive the long-awaited Sue Gray report into lockdown-breaking parties and fight for his political life.

Citigroup will undertake a three-year overhaul of its London skyscraper costing more than £100m, in what the bank has described as a vote of confidence in the City of London after Brexit and the future of the office post-pandemic. The Wall Street lender bought the tower in Canary Wharf for £1.2bn in 2019.

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2022-01-25 19:50:17 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: The Australian Open tennis tournament has reversed its policy of ejecting spectators for wearing T-shirts in support of Chinese player Peng Shuai, after two people were removed from the event last week resulting in criticism from players, commentators and politicians.

Boris Johnson’s premiership was plunged deeper into crisis after it emerged that he had a birthday party during England’s first lockdown in 2020, despite Covid rules at the time banning indoor social gatherings.

Nato members began sending additional ships and fighter jets to allied countries in eastern Europe as Boris Johnson said that Russia had massed enough troops close to Ukraine for a ‘lightning war’ in which it would try to seize Kyiv.

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2022-01-24 18:13:16 Breaking news: Global stocks dropped, with technology groups leading the declines, as expectations that the US central bank will need to rapidly unwind stimulus measures mounted. Open / Comment

2022-01-24 15:34:40 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: Fans of a proposed four-day working week should hold the champagne because new UK research reveals that it is a long way from being rampant.

The US has ordered families of its embassy staff to leave Ukraine due to the threat of ‘significant military action’ from Russia.

Opinion: The titans of the metaverse have a bandwidth problem. A fully working, high-definition virtual world will require far more capacity to transmit data between the consumer and network than is currently available in homes around the world.

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2022-01-21 17:38:57 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is seeking to join the rush of groups trying to capitalise on the digital collectible craze. Teams at Facebook and Instagram are readying a feature that will allow users to create and display NFTs via their social media profiles.

Liz Truss, the UK’s foreign secretary, has called for liberal governments to ‘face down global aggressors’ in a highly charged speech aimed at Russia and China.

Bitcoin dropped to a five-month low as investors dump risk assets after Russia’s central bank proposed to ban all cryptocurrency operations in the country.

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2022-01-20 19:18:58 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: Hong Kong’s zero-Covid regime has led to soaring cargo rates and flight cancellations. Now, people are chartering private jets for their pets — the only way many can take their animals with them as the pandemic continues.

By 2026, almost 750m wireless earbuds are likely to be defunct, considering their short lifespan. The leftover mass of plastic, copper, circuit board, magnets and batteries will join the planet’s trove of e-waste. Why are they so hard to repair and recycle? Take a look at our visual explainer.

Boris Johnson’s team has been accused by a senior Conservative MP of seeking to 'blackmail' rebel backbenchers, who are attempting to oust the prime minister, by threatening to withhold public funding from their constituencies.

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2022-01-19 19:51:24 You can now listen to our top stories and the free-to-read article by clicking play.

Free to read: Should the energy-intensive method of bitcoin mining be banned? A top EU financial regulator has warned that the way cryptocurrencies are mined posed a risk to meeting climate change goals in the Paris agreement and sounded the alarm over the rising proportion of renewable energy devoted to crypto mining.

KPMG has been fined £3m by the UK accounting regulator for audit failings at collapsed alcohol retailer Conviviality. The penalty is the second set of sanctions against the accountancy firm in as many days.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson apologised again for attending Downing Street parties during lockdown but has said he will not resign, as MPs claimed they were close to triggering a no-confidence vote.

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