Nick Knowles: TV presenter buys stake in Cornish Pirates
Television presenter Nick Knowles has become a shareholder in Champ Rugby side Cornish Pirates.
The presenter, best known for shows such as DIY SOS and National Lottery: Who Dares Wins, is the latest person to join the club's ownership group.
Ken Griffin's Citadel posts best month in years after scooping up Situational Awareness stocks
Ken Griffin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Citadel, speaks during the America Business Forum at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, U.S. Nov. 5, 2025.
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Ken Griffin's Citadel posted strong gains across its major hedge funds in July, helped by a recovery in risk assets and a discounted purchase of assets from the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness to end the month, according to a person familiar with the firm's performance.
Mortgage rates hit their highest level in over a year, causing demand to drop below year-ago levels
Homes in Hercules, California, June 17, 2026.
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Mortgage demand continued to plummet last week, after mortgage rates rose to their highest level in over a year.
Council Post: Why Autonomous Operations Require More Than AI Models
Dr. Dale Skeen, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Vitria Technology.
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The biggest limitation in today’s AI infrastructure is not model intelligence. It is the absence of operational understanding.
CVS blows past estimates, hikes guidance as insurance unit continues to improve
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CVS Health on Wednesday blew past second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates and raised its 2026 guidance, as its insurance unit Aetna shows signs of recovery.
Burnham not actively considering Epstein inquiry, No 10 says
Andy Burnham is not actively considering holding a public inquiry into the UK activities of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Downing Street has said.
It comes after Victims Minister Alex Davies-Jones told BBC Newsnight the prime minister was "looking into" the possibility of an inquiry into the alleged actions of Epstein and the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed.
Council Post: From Search To Agent-Driven Discovery: How Digital Commerce Is Evolving
Adrien Menard, Co-founder & CEO at Botify, a leading agentic and AI search optimization solution for brand visibility.
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For nearly two decades, digital commerce followed a predictable pattern. Brands optimized sites, ranked higher, drove traffic and converted visitors into buyers. This model assumed there was a human on the other side of the screen searching for products, clicking through results, reading product pages, weighing options and eventually making a purchase. But this assumption no longer holds.
CVS Health Profits Hit $2.9 Billion As Firm Gets Handle On Aetna Costs
CVS Health Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026 reported second quarter net income nearly tripled to $2.9 billion compared to the year-ago quarter as the company gets a better handle on rising costs in its Aetna health plans. In this photo is a monitor displays signage for CVS Health Corp. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
Gianni Infantino latest: Key questions as Fifa president faces executives
BBC Sport understands the meeting will take place at Fifa's Africa office in Rabat.
It will include Grafstrom and members of the Fifa management board.
Among those in attendance will be finance chief Thomas Peyer, legal chief Emilio Garcia Silvero, chief of staff Daniel O'Toole, chief of member associations Elkhan Mammadov and media relations director Bryan Swanson.
Reform UK plan to return asylum seekers using navy ‘dangerous in practice’
A plan put forward by Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party to deploy the navy to intercept and return asylum seekers arriving by boat has triggered a dispute with France.
Reform leader Nigel Farage, who is under political pressure at home over a series of financial scandals and faces a by-election in just more than a week, characterised the mission dubbed “Operation Fortress” not as pushbacks but as “rescue and return”. He argued that, per its humanitarian nature, the measure would not breach international law, as stated by the French Ministry of the Interior.