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Nissan shares tumble by most since August amid Honda deal worries

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:56

After soaring on news of potential merger, fall reflects concerns about expected terms of deal, say analysts

Shares in the Japanese carmaker Nissan have tumbled in their biggest fall since August’s stock market sell-off , as investors turned their attention to the company’s planned tie-up with domestic rivals Honda and Mitsubishi .

Nissan’s shares fell by as much as 15% on Friday, before regaining some losses to close down 7.8%, in a sign of investor volatility.

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‘A taste of Ibiza in grotty King’s Cross’: memories of closed UK nightclubs

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:55

As venues continue to shut down, six people remember dancing nonstop, loved-up vibes and sticky carpets

‘It’s not just a dancefloor’: the precipitous decline of UK nightclubs

Nightclubs across British towns and cities have been declining steadily over recent years, with 65 closures this year alone . The Covid pandemic has been a big factor as 480 nightclubs shut their doors between June 2020 and June 2024.

Here, six people share memories of their favourite clubs in their 90s and 00s heydays.

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Calls to save the UK’s ailing nightclub industry after another year of closures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:55

A cocktail of Covid-19 and the cost-of-living crisis has left larger ‘chrome and carpet’ venues high and dry as struggling chains look to party bars

‘A taste of Ibiza in grotty King’s Cross’: memories of closed UK nightclubs

When the patrons of Watford’s Przym nightclub celebrated New Year’s Eve on 31 December 2023, they were marking the end of an era, or rather, the end of seven eras. Like every beloved local club, the venue had been known by multiple names over the years: Top Rank, Bailey’s, Paradise Lost, Kudos, Destiny and Oceana.

Now, it will be reincarnated no more, after failing to reach a deal with its landlord.

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Germany’s president dissolves parliament ahead of snap election

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:50

Formal step taken by Frank-Walter Steinmeier after chancellor Olaf Scholz lost confidence vote in Bundestag

Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has dissolved parliament and called a snap election on 23 February after Olaf Scholz’s fractious three-way coalition collapsed three years into its mandate.

The national vote will come seven months ahead of schedule amid a rocky stretch of unusual political turmoil for the EU’s top economic power, with growth rates flatlining , industry in crisis and the far right on the rise .

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Houthis claim to have targeted Ben Gurion airport after Israel hits Sana’a

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:41

IDF says missile was intercepted before it reached Israeli airspace, as Netanyahu says strikes on Yemen will continue

Middle East crisis: latest updates

Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to have retaliated against Israeli airstrikes on Sana’a’s airport early on Friday with a missile aimed at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and a drone attack on Tel Aviv.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said their defences intercepted the ballistic missile before it reached Israeli airspace, though residents in the centre of the country were ordered into shelters for fear of falling debris. There were no reports in Israel of hostile drones over Tel Aviv.

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After a Boxing Day bonanza, is title now Liverpool’s to lose? - Football Weekly

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:21

Max Rushden is joined by Will Unwin, Jonathan Fadugba and Lars Sivertsen after a batch of intriguing results on Boxing Day including losses for Chelsea and Manchester United

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts , Soundcloud , Audioboom , Mixcloud , Acast and Stitcher , and join the conversation on Facebook , Twitter and email .

On the podcast today; a Boxing Day for the ages as Chelsea, Manchester United and Spurs all lose while Manchester City drop points against Everton.

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Listen up! Why 2024 was the year of the audiobook

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:13

With download figures at a high, all-star Hollywood voice casts and Spotify’s entry into the audiobook streaming business, the format is enjoying a surge in popularity

After Bella Mackie’s first novel How to Kill Your Family was published in 2021, readers got in touch to tell her how much they enjoyed it. “But I’d get people saying, ‘I’m really sorry, I listened to it on audiobook’ – as if that wasn’t enough,” the author says. “I don’t get that caveat now,” she adds. “Something has switched.”

Audiobooks aren’t new: the American Foundation for the Blind pressed recordings of books on to vinyl records in 1932. Later, books became popular on cassette tape and then CDs. But the smartphone era has given the format a new lease of life, and data from the Publishers Association (PA) shows that UK audiobook downloads increased by 17% in the year between 2022 and 2023.

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Focus returns to constitutional court in South Korea’s parliamentary saga

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:02

Impeachment of acting president Han Duck-soo is latest twist in battle for country’s political future

For the fourth time this month, South Korea ’s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country’s political future.

Safeguarding the hard-won rights and freedoms South Koreans have enjoyed for almost four decades is a lofty aim – and supported by the vast majority of voters – but the scenes inside the national assembly have been a reminder of how thin the line can be between democracy and rule by force.

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‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 27 December - 12:00

A visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods

Mexico City’s mayor has never been afraid to court controversy. Clara Brugada has taken some imaginative steps in her efforts to undo decades of economic and cultural inequality in one of the capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods.

That includes a Boeing 737 converted into a library , its overhead lockers stuffed with books, and a park where 50ft animatronic dinosaurs tower. Both are part of Brugada’s Utopias project.

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