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Boots, the High Street pharmacy and retail chain, has been sold in an $8.9bn (£6.7bn) deal to the holding company of Canada’s billionaire Weston family.Wittington Investments confirmed it had agreed to buy Boots on Wednesday from US private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Sycamore had only owned the retailer for 18 months after taking over the retailer’s previous owner.The deal covers Boots’ retail operations in the UK and Ireland, Boots Opticians, No7 Beauty Company and its Thailand and franchised businesses.Galen Weston, chairman of Wittington, said the firm played “a vital role in everyday life across the UK and Ireland”.The deal is…

Robinhood has taken a clear step into corporate Bitcoin ownership. On October 7, 2026, Johann Kerbrat, the company’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of Crypto and International, disclosed that Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its own corporate balance sheet—its first proprietary BTC holding. Kerbrat framed the purchase as more than a financial allocation. Speaking in an interview at the Digital Asset Summit Asia, he described it as a deliberate signal of commitment: “We care deeply about bitcoin and the ecosystem around it. For us, it’s more aligning our company and our vision with the crypto…

Previous CEO Phil Spencer had begun to take the division in a new direction, releasing some of its most popular games on rival consoles for the first time.E-Day was widely expected to follow other high budget series such as Halo on to other companies’ machines.But new Xbox boss Asha Sharma, who took over the job in June, announced Gears of War would remain a “console exclusive”, although a PC version has also been released.Her strategy has been called into question by critics.After taking six years to make and an estimated budget in the hundreds of millions, they argue that keeping…

By Sally Rufus, updated October 7, 2026 Let’s get uncomfortable for a minute. Everyone loves bull market fantasies, price targets, moon charts, and bold crypto predictions about which tokens will “definitely” explode next year. Social feeds are replete with optimism, encouraging users to learn how to buy crypto, and every new narrative is dressed up as the future of finance. But markets don’t reward blind enthusiasm. They reward positioning, realism, and, at times, the discipline to avoid ill-advised bets. If you’re serious about surviving in 2026, you shouldn’t just ask what might win. You should also ask what might quietly…

South Korean football team after winning the Asian Games gold medal. (Pic credit: X) South Korea is reconsidering a decades-old military service benefit for elite athletes after controversial comments by Asian Games gold medallists triggered a fresh public debate over whether sporting success should continue to qualify some young men for an alternative to the country’s compulsory military service.The controversy erupted after South Korea won the men’s football gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, beating Japan 1-0 in the final on Saturday. Several players came under fire for comments and social-media activity related to the military benefit that came…

In Cardano news today, the Cardano Foundation has launched CIP-0113, a standard that lets issuers build compliance rules into programmable tokens for regulated stablecoins, funds, and bonds. ADA is down 7.5% over 24 hours amid a broader market drop, trading at $0.254, so this sell-off isn’t necessarily tied to a negative reaction to Cardano’s CIP-0113 standard. Cardano Opens The Door to Compliant Programmable Tokens Cardano’s (@Cardano) CIP-0113 programmable token standard is now live on mainnet after multiple independent security audits. The standard lets issuers build KYC, AML, sanctions screening, and transfer restrictions directly… pic.twitter.com/AVmIoHOFox — BSCN (@BSCNews) October 7, 2026…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The CFTC’s plan for crypto exchange rules would tighten oversight of custodial trading platforms while leaving self-custody and on-chain trading outside the federal net, the agency said Monday. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission outlined two linked frameworks, Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM, in an advance notice of proposed rulemaking published Monday. The step seeks public comment before formal rules are drafted, and the public would have 60 days to comment once the notice appears in the Federal Register. Under Regulation CTX, simply offering leverage, even through terms…

If you’re try­ing to under­stand a city, its map isn’t a bad place to start. Today, of course, we can call up an accu­rate map of prac­ti­cal­ly any part of any city at any time we like, with detailed point-to-point direc­tions avail­able on com­mand. Turn on the satel­lite view, street view, or 3D mode with its offer of every imag­in­able point of view, and you soon feel you’re engag­ing with less a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the city than the city itself. Yet the famil­iar­i­ty this makes us feel we pos­sess is decep­tive, a real­iza­tion that comes afresh when­ev­er our phone runs…

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One of the joys of the Star Wars universe is that, really, you can imagine yourself being whatever you want to be. The vast galaxy of “Star Wars” games bears that out, especially recently: wannabe Jedi can imagine themselves in the boots of Cal Kestis or Kyle Katarn, blaster-wielding scoundrels have “Star Wars Outlaws” (after some much-needed patches), and amateur space pilots can try their hand at “Star Wars Squadrons.” But for those of us who still wax nostalgic for the “Ben-Hur”-like joys of the podrace from “The Phantom Menace,” Fuse Games has a new-generation game to scratch the itch…