Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion The struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7 billion by parent company Yum Brands. Private equity firm LongRange Capital is buying Pizza Hut, excluding the mainland China business, for about $1.5 billion, the company said Tuesday. The mainland China Pizza Hut will be purchased by Yum China Holdings Inc. for approximately $1.2 billion, it said. Yum! Brands began a strategic review to explore options for Pizza H
Left-leaning voters more willing to back Andy Burnham than Restore supporters are to vote Reform UK politics live – latest updates Tactical voting could be fundamental to a Labour victory in Makerfield, with Green and Liberal Democrat supporters willing to back Andy Burnham to stop Reform from winning. Conversely, Reform’s main competitor for votes on the right is Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party. Polling experts have said that current data suggests the size of their vote share is roughly sim
Japanese technology company at centre of Post Office IT scandal is negotiating settlement with UK government over faulty software Business live – latest updates The chair of Fujitsu, the Japanese technology firm at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal, has resigned after its board became aware of his “woman-related inappropriate conduct”. The company said on Tuesday that Hidenori Furuta had stepped down after two years in the role. Continue reading...
A weekend Base jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said. The sheriff’s office in Grand County, Utah, confirmed one of the dead was Andy Lewis, an extreme athlete known for feats in Base jumping, a dangerous sport that involves parachuting to the ground after jumping from a tall fixed object such as a building, a bridge or a desert cliff overlooking a deep canyon. Le
The sun is out, it's a cool 60 degrees and in this Tuesday edition of Screencaps , you can feel America slipping into a comfort zone for summer. The World Cup rolls on, but there's also this other massive sporting event that takes place this upcoming weekend called the U.S. Open. And it's Father's Day on Sunday. What a run for the United States. Thursday will be a day you'll want to just take off work. While you're at it, take off Friday, too, in order to recover. You'll get Team USA vs. Austral
Guardian - World · Oct 8
In 2024, Maizie Hepner, 24, started visiting a bar in Dubuque, Iowa that did not serve alcohol and instead offered beverages containing kava and kratom, psychoactive substances derived from plants. The drinks were marketed as “herbal tea mocktails”. Hepner, who works as a server and bartender, said. “I asked the guy who owns” Kava Kava “if it was addictive, and he said, ‘Absolutely not’”. Hepner started going three to four times each week and then began purchasing a kratom powder from a liquor s
NBC News · Oct 8
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G7 summit in Evian, France on June 16, 2026.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Call at G7 summit in France comes as Ukraine president tells US counterpart Kyiv is no longer losing on battlefield Europe live – latest updates European leaders at the G7 summit have urged Donald Trump to try to break the deadlock over ending the Ukraine war by taking up the proposal for him to host talks in the US between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin. The US president lamented “the great antipathy” between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders that made it difficult to reach a settlement
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Ridglan Farms facility in Wisconsin was at the center of protests against the practice of using animals for research A beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin that has been the focus of animal rights protests is shutting down, and a rescue group in Florida is taking in the remaining dogs. “Not one dog will remain,” Lauree Simmons, founder of Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Florida, said in a press conference announcing the news on Monday. “No more breeding, no more testing, no more anything.”
