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British money to condiment jars: The cost of the royal makeover from Queen Elizabeth II to King Charles III
Queen Elizabeth II's image is ubiquitous. Her face is on British money — the blue 5-pound notes, the bronze 1-pound coin. It's on post boxes and stamps. The royal arms is on condiment jars and jackets. But before long, the visage of King Charles III will replace his mother's in official and unofficial capacities
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Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Versailles to turn off lights early in energy savings push
Energy prices across Europe have skyrocketed in recent months, in part because of the turbulence in energy markets caused by Russia's war in Ukraine and the resulting sanctions slapped on Russia, a top energy producer
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Cracking down on a Wall Street trend: ESG makeovers
ESG fund makeovers have become the trend du jour on Wall Street: BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, are among 90 mutual funds and ETFs that have rebranded themselves as ESG dedicated funds, seeking to cash in on growing investor demand for such investments. But what may have seemed like a harmless marketing move is now causing some eyebrow raising
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Royal funerals: pomp, pageantry and sometimes privacy
Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour
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Fossil fuel reserves contain 3.5 tn tonnes of CO2: database
Burning the fossil fuel reserves would release seven times the remaining carbon budget to cap global heating at 1.5C
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What price is right? Why capping Russian oil is complicated
Setting the price will require aligning the complex array of economic and diplomatic forces that govern volatile oil markets.
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Can 'the Merge' save crypto
Many crypto fans hope that it will turn things around for the crypto movement, which has been besieged in the past year by trillions of dollars in losses, a string of major scams and hacks and a new wave of regulatory scrutiny
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Gautam Adani becomes 2nd richest man in the world for a brief time, overtaking Jeff Bezos
The self-made billionaire's net worth surged $4 billion overnight to $154 billion, according to Forbes, ranking him ahead of LVMH's Bernard Arnault and Amazon's Jeff Bezos
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Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber's internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York Times
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YouTube opens more pathways for creators to make money on the platform
The Google-owned company is lowering the barriers to entry for its partner program which currently only allows monetization if audiences have watched at least 4,000 hours of their videos or have at least 1,000 subscribers
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World Bank warns recession risk rising amid higher interest rates
Inflation worldwide has been rising at the fastest pace seen in decades, due to supply constraints amid high demand as countries emerged from the pandemic, and exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Covid lockdowns in China