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  • Real Peony Blush non-alcoholic sparkling tea

    Food and drink
    Sparkling tea sales soar as Britons seek healthy options for festive fizz

    As cuppas lose out to coffee with younger drinkers, beverage is recast as a soft drink with ‘wellbeing’ powers
    • a man wearing a blue T-shirt speaks as he sits on a chair

      Meta
      Meta terminates its diversity programs days before Trump inauguration

    • Airlines
      Legal fight over €2.5bn worth of aircraft stuck in Russia plays out in Dublin

    • Russia
      White House imposes toughest sanctions on oil and gas

    • Property
      UK debt market sell-off threatens to push up mortgage costs

    • Technology
      Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim

    • Supermarkets
      Budget tax changes will push up price of fresh food, says Sainsbury’s boss

    • US
      US supreme court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban-or-sale law in hearing

    • Energy
      Constellation to buy Calpine for $16bn in one of biggest US power moves

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Opinion & analysis

  • A pub worker prepares to carry a tray of drinks to a customer

    Big retail will cope – but Reeves’ NICs raid is too much, too soon for part-timers

    Nils Pratley
  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta, makes a point during an appearance at SIGGRAPH 2024, the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, Monday, July 29, 2024, in the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

    Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy

    Joan Donovan
  • New York Times Holds Annual DealBook Summit<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. The NYT summit with Ross Sorkin returns with interviews on the main stage including Sam Altman, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI, Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, among others. The discussions will touch on topics such as business, politics and culture. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    Melania’s $40m Amazon deal: another sign Bezos is capitulating to Donald Trump

    Margaret Sullivan
  • grey TikTok logo figurine stands on US flag with Chinese flag in background

    Explainer
    How would a Tiktok ban work in the US?

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Spotlight

  • Workers and diggers on a road-building site

    Norway
    Sites without sound: Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction

    Norwegian capital’s sites were 98% free of fossil fuels last year, and it aims to increase use of electric machinery

Multimedia

  • Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg

    Politics
    Silicon Valley leaders bend the knee to Trump

  • Elon Musk jumps on the stage as Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Pennsylvania in October 2024

    Today in Focus
    Elon Musk’s political evolution

    Why is Elon Musk increasingly trying to influence UK politics?
  • Fiona Katauskas cartoon on Meta, thumbnail

    Cartoon
    What does Mark Zuckerberg know about free speech?

    Everything in moderation, except moderation

Your money

  • A country home in Tillingham, Essex with its own tennis court.

    Homes for sale for fitness fanatics – in pictures

  • Closeup of a hand turning the thermostat knob on a radiator

    Number of people seeking help with energy bills up by 20% last year

    • Cash in the cupboard for life’s essentials

    • My disabled mother paid £500 to travel near an Avanti accessible toilet … and it was closed

    • Cash makes surprise comeback amid 4.6% annual rise in ATM withdrawals

    • UK house prices dip for first time since March, says Halifax

    • My identity had been stolen but Three failed to respond

    • What are my rights if wintry UK weather has disrupted my travel?

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