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Microsoft (MSFT) is buying a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange as part of a deal that will see the market operator spend at least $2.8 billion over 10 years on the software provider’s cloud services. The companies announced the partnership in a joint statement on Monday, touting the benefits it will deliver to the stock exchange’s customers through improved data and analytics. Shares of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) gained 4% in early trade. The partnership “creates attractive revenue growth opportunities for both companies,” LSEG CEO David Schwimmer said in the statement. As part of the deal,…

The year is 1986 and Steve Davis is the most famous sportsperson in Britain. He has just lost a second successive World Championship final but remains snooker’s leading player and a household name.He sits quietly enjoying a meal in a Chinese restaurant in Ilford when a man comes over to him, wanting to shake him by the hand. This is so commonplace that Davis does not shrink. The man engages him in conversation, telling him his 10-year-old son is a promising snooker player and will be world champion one day. Would Steve mind having a photograph with him?Davis has heard…

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11).This Old Testament verse from Jeremiah is one of the best-known in the Bible, offering assurance that God wants only our best.Who was the prophet Jeremiah, and how long did he deliver God’s messages?BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY: GOD HEARS THE FAITHFUL’S PRAYERS – AND IS THEREJeremiah was “a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah in the Old Testament, right before Judah ultimately fell to Babylon and was led away into…

CNN  —  Lawmakers face a Friday at midnight deadline when government funding is set to expire – and the House and Senate will likely have to pass a short-term extension to avert a shutdown at the end of the week, which would give negotiators more time to try to secure a broader full-year funding deal. The other major legislative item lawmakers are working to wrap up before the end of the year is the National Defense Authorization Act, the massive annual must-pass defense policy bill. The NDAA is expected to get a vote in the Senate this week and be…

“There is no reason, as we head into 2023, why this is a disease that we should still be dealing with a decade from now,” he said. “We do have the tools; we do have the wherewithal in terms of programmatic knowledge and what we need is political commitment … and sufficient resources to finish the job.” MALARIA-FREE FUTURE Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. According to the WHO report, there were an estimated 619,000 malaria deaths globally in 2021 compared to 625,000 in 2020,…

MOSCOW, Idaho – EXCLUSIVE: The family of one of the four University of Idaho victims killed in a shocking home invasion attack last month is looking to raise reward money for information in the case as the investigation hits the four-week mark without an arrest or any publicly identified suspects.”Our family would like to fundraise in hopes to offer a reward, and possibly hire a private investigator if that becomes necessary,” Kristi Goncalves, the mother of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, told Fox News Digital Sunday.Her daughter and three friends, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, both 20, were killed…

FIRST ON FOX: Actor and writer Kirk Cameron, rebuffed in recent efforts to try to deliver story-hour reading programs for kids at a number of public libraries connected to his new children’s book, is fighting back.In exclusive comments to Fox News Digital, Cameron said late Sunday, “One of the things I love about our country is its commitment to the sharing of knowledge and the free expression of ideas.”He added, “That is why I am excited to bring Brave Books Story Hour to public libraries across the country. Unfortunately, though many of these libraries gladly hosted the ‘Drag Queen Story…

Can those lamenting/celebrating/gawping at the not-so-slow-motion car crash of Elon Musk’s Twitter ownership really blame the benchmarking wizards of S&P Dow Jones Indices for the whole debacle?That’s what a lot of people reckon. When Tesla finally managed to notch up four consecutive quarters of profit in the summer of 2020 and became eligible for inclusion into the S&P 500, it helped spark a wild ride that made it one of the world’s most valuable companies. That transformed Musk into the world’s wealthiest edgelord and allowed him to buy Twitter. It’s easy to forget that at the start of 2020 Tesla…

CNN  —  The US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office will announce Monday that it is issuing a $2.5 billion loan to help start three lithium battery manufacturing hubs in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan. The DOE loan programs office will loan the money to Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture of General Motors and South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solutions making batteries to power electric vehicles. General Motors has pledged to go all-electric by 2035, phasing out conventional gas and diesel-powered engines. In a statement, US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the DOE loan would “jumpstart the domestic battery…

Cold Weather Payments are worth £25 and are handed out to eligible households when the temperature falls below zero degrees or below for seven consecutive days in an area Thousands of families in England and Wales will receive Cold Weather Payments in the coming days as temperatures continue to plunge. Cold Weather Payments are worth £25 and are triggered when the temperature falls below zero degrees or below for seven consecutive days. You might find you become eligible for a payment as the UK wakes up to blankets of snow covering parts of the country this morning and temperatures of…