SISTERON, France (AP) — Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt pulled out of the Women's Tour de France ahead of Saturday's eighth and penultimate stage after feeling unwell.
The French rider's Visma-Lease a Bike team said on X that the decision to pull her out of the race was made after consultation with the team's medical staff.
"Unfortunately, Pauline was not feeling well this morning," the team said. "It has been decided that she will not start today. We wish Pauline a speedy recovery."
An Olympic champion in mountain biking at the Paris Olympics in 2024, she won the Women's Tour de France on her debut last year.
She was in 14th place overall heading into Stage 8, a flat 172-kilometer (107-mile) route from Sisteron in southeast France to Nice made for sprinters.

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Mondi has introduced a packaging format that pairs a corrugated outer carton with recyclable flexible packaging marked by laser.
The design is aimed at e-commerce and bag-in-box uses and can be applied to several flexible packaging formats to support circularity and form supply chains.
Artwork is added directly to the flexible packaging during converting through laser marking technology, removing the need for standard decorative printing and printing plates.
Mondi said this makes it easier to customise packs, update artwork quickly and adjust designs in response to shifts in market demand and consumer preferences.
The format can be used across different flexible packaging types, including reels, pre-made pouches such as the re/cycle StripPouch, and larger pre-made bags.

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The Dayton Flyers will play Memphis on Sunday, Nov. 29, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.
The site of the game was announced on Thursday, Aug. 6, while news of the matchup broke in March. The time of the game and ticket information will be announced at a later date.
The game is part of the inaugural Atlantic 10/American Showcase on ESPN. Saint Louis, the defending A-10 regular-season champion, will play South Florida, the defending American Conference regular-season and tournament champion, in the first game. The Dayton-Memphis matchup will follow.
This collaboration presents a tremendous opportunity for Atlantic 10 teams to compete against quality opponents on a neutral floor before a national audience," A10 Commissioner Dan Leibovitz said in a press release. "We appreciate our media partner, ESPN, and the American Conference for coming together to create a unique event with meaningful scheduling value. This collaboration will strengthen our league's non-conference profile and improve our NCAA Tournament positioning.
According to the A-10, "Future editions of the event will rotate participating schools and host locations within the Atlantic 10 and American Conference footprints. As part of the multi-year agreement, additional participating schools and host sites will be announced later."

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When longtime mortgage loan officer Hillary Moussali worked at a local Chase bank branch, an elderly man walked in holding a mail advertisement with the bank's name, promising "super low" refinancing rates. Moussali took one look at the mailer and knew it wasn't sent from Chase.
"I read the fine print, which he probably couldn't even see," said Moussali, who worked as a loan officer for Chase from 2016 to 2021. "If he had just called the 1-800 number, who knows what they would have charged him."
There's a good chance they would've charged him thousands of extra dollars in unnecessary costs, according to new Bankrate research that finds a costly "Seniority Tax" is consistently imposed on older refinancers. The Seniority Tax is a targeted example of a wider Hidden Homeownership Tax revealed by our research — the systemic overpayment by American mortgage borrowers.
Read more about how the Seniority Tax plays out, along with similar overpayment consequences for other groups of people.
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Luxury fashion retailers are accelerating store closures as slowing demand, economic uncertainty, and shifting consumer spending force even the industry's biggest names to rethink their global footprints.
Over the past year, several luxury companies have announced plans to shrink their retail networks as they prioritize stronger-performing locations, streamline operations, and invest in long-term growth rather than maintaining expansive store portfolios.
Kering closed 133 stores across its brands in 2025 and plans to shutter an additional 100 locations, with further reductions under review. The French multinational luxury goods group owns some of the most recognizable luxury houses, including Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen.
Ferragamo also expects to close roughly 70 stores between 2025 and 2026, while Burberry shuttered 21 locations during fiscal 2026.
Industry ****** ysts do not expect a rapid recovery.

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SpaceX's $18.4B AI capex is a fraction of the $860B rivals plan to spend in 2026, an 80% year-over-year increase.
Amazon commits $220B and Meta up to $145B for AI this year, while ****** eX rents compute capacity to Google and Anthropic instead.
xAI's Grok trails Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini in Apple's App Store rankings, exposing ****** eX's weak enterprise and consumer AI footprint.
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Someone, please tell me if I'm wrong. ****** eX (NASDAQ: SPCX) said its capital expenditures were $18.4 billion in the quarter that just ended. Almost all of the spending is going toward AI. By the same token, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) says it will spend a ton more. Yahoo reports, "Oracle expects capital expenditures of up to $95 billion in fiscal 2027, though it expects repayments from customers for up ‌to $25 billion of that." And that number is small by megatech company standards.

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Cannabis is having a moment. Americans now reach for weed daily more often than they reach for a drink, and THC seltzers sit on shelves at Total Wine and Target like they belong there. RYTHM, the Nasdaq-listed holding company behind a stack of those brands, just had a very nice quarter on the bet that the shelf ****** e is permanent. Congress has other ideas.
RYTHM surged 23% Tuesday after a strong second-quarter print and a possible federal reprieve on the hemp-derived THC ban set to take effect in November. The company posted $1.2 million in net income on $23 million in revenue, up 73% from the prior quarter. The stock is up about 56% over the last 6 months.
The consumer has spoken, and the consumer wants easy access to THC. Daily cannabis use now outpaces daily drinking, per new federal survey data. Many lawmakers, especially Republicans, think they know better.
Let's do some clarity: THC is the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, which remains federally illegal in the U.S., though the DEA just wrapped hearings weighing whether to move recreational cannabis from the most restrictive Schedule I to the far less restrictive Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. The 2018 Farm Bill legalized THC derived from "hemp," a category Congress invented in statute with no grounding in chemistry. That let products like THC seltzers and gummies flourish in bodegas and grocery stores near you. It's effectively the same product as state-legal dispensary weed with a different retail channel.

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Management attributes the 200 basis point sequential physical occupancy increase to deliberate market share gains and the ramping of record new business wins from the prior year.
The company is successfully winning business from smaller, capital-constrained competitors who are struggling operationally or exiting the industry as new project starts slow.
Strategic focus has shifted toward underpenetrated sectors, including retail footprints in Europe and convenience store capabilities in Asia Pacific, to diversify beyond traditional storage.
Pricing discipline remains a priority, with management choosing to lead with service excellence rather than participating in the price-cutting trends seen among smaller industry participants.

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Performance was driven by disciplined cost management and a simplified go-to-market strategy, resulting in expanded gross and adjusted EBITDA margins despite revenue pressure.
Management attributed broadband subscriber losses to intense competitive pressure, particularly from fiber overbuilders and fixed wireless providers in the West footprint.
The company is pivoting toward a convergence-led strategy, leveraging a new multiyear agreement with T-Mobile to expand its mobile addressable market into wearables and connected devices.
Operational efficiency improved significantly through the deployment of AI-powered tools like Google CES and Gemini, which contributed to a 20% year-over-year decline in truck rolls and service calls.

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TOURNON-SUR-RHONE, France (AP) — Mauritian rider Kim Le Court-Pienaar won the sixth stage of the Women's Tour de France in a sprint to the line on Thursday, while Marlen Reusser kept the race leader's yellow jersey.
Le Court-Pienaar attacked from 300 meters out and held off Frenchwoman Cedrine Kerbaol and Dutchwoman Puck Pieterse, who was third. Le Court-Pienaar lay on her back in a mixture of exhaustion and elation as she savored her victory after winning in about four hours.
The Swiss rider Reusser maintained her overall lead of 12 seconds from Dutchwoman Demi Vollering, with Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney, 1 minute and 17 seconds behind in third.
Two-time Giro d'Italia winner Elisa Longo Borghini jumped up a couple of places to fourth overall to move into outside contention for the ******* le at 2:28 back. Le Court-Pienaar was ninth at 3:26 behind while defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot of France was 15th.
Stage six took riders on a 153-kilometer (95-mile) route featuring five modest climbs and one tricky category 2-level climb — the third-hardest category in the race — before a downhill dash to Tournon-sur-Rhône in the Ardèche region of south-central France.

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Every August, NFL fans and **** ysts eagerly dissect the release of a team's first official depth chart, searching for clues about starting roles, positional battles, and rookie progress. However, as training camp unfolds, coaches routinely remind everyone that these early summer projections should be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism.
Following the release of the Pittsburgh Steelers initial preseason roster outline, Mark Kaboly, correspondent for "The Pat McAfee Show," captured head coach Mike McCarthy's candid perspective regarding the document.
As Kaboly shared on X, "McCarthy said that SteelersPRBurt made the initial depth chart so don't take too much out of it."
The brief tweet highlights an annual NFL reality: initial preseason depth charts are largely administrative tasks completed by public relations personnel to satisfy league media requirements prior to exhibition games, rather than strategic blueprints crafted by the coaching staff.
The tag "SteelersPRBurt" refers to Burt Lauten, Pittsburgh's Vice President of Communications. Lauten and his PR team **** emble the roster document using standard protocols, which often default to veteran seniority, contract status, or basic placeholder logic rather than real-time performance evaluations on the practice field.

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The Tennessee **** ans are one week into training camp, and the fingerprints of new head coach Robert Saleh can already be felt by all of the organization.
The **** ans do still have some questions that must be answered in camp, but one thing is starting to look more certain by the day: the **** ans' defense will be much improved in 2026. Not only have the **** ans improved the roster around Jeffery Simmons, they improved the braintrust with the additions of Saleh and defensive coordinator Gus Bradley.
How much of an improvement was it? Zachary Pereles and the staff at CBS Sports looked at the defensive playcallers across the league and have Saleh clearly inside the top 10.
No. 6: Robert Saleh, **** ans coach
Points: 49 | Highest rank: 2 | Lowest rank: 10

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One of my pet projects during the spring was to put together a list of Livingston County track and field records.
It would've been easy to just list the top performance in each event by pooling information from school record boards, but what fun would that be? I tried to go at least five performances deep in each event.
Anything that happened in what we call the Athletic.net era is easy to find. The potential issues come if an older record from, say, the 1990s is no longer on a school record board and isn't listed on A.net. So, I put together this list realizing I could miss those types of performances. If you can provide proof of a performance I missed, send it to billkhan35gmail.com and I'll pass it on to my replacement.
It also gets really tricky with sprints because of hand-timed performances that were converted. For any event under 400 meters, I included only times that were captured electronically. As a result, my list of 100- and 200-meter times is pretty short. I extended the lists in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 because distance running is so strong in this area and I'm confident in the accuracy of those performances.
The list also does not include performances from meets not run in a school uniform. That excludes Hartland senior Elliana Neuer's incredible triple at Nike Outdoor Nationals in June. She ran times that were faster than the county records in the 1,600 (4:48.80) and 800 (2:12.66) and a 3,200 time (10:38.03) that ranks her third.

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Baseball is a funny sport sometimes. There aren't very many sports or opportunities in life where you can get embarrassed and then come back less than 24 hours later to face the exact same team and completely flip the script and result of the two contests. Thankfully, baseball isn't most sports and that's exactly what the D-Backs were able to accomplish on Wednesday night, taking a shutout performance all the way into the top of the ninth while absolutely teeing off on San Diego pitching throughout the night. The victory not only gave the D-Backs some extra padding in their Wild Card lead, but also put them that much closer to securing the season series against the Friar's – an important tiebreak consideration as we enter the last quarter of the season and sprint towards the playoffs.
The starting rotation has been a weakness for the team throughout the season – led by disappointing results from Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen. That disappointment and weakness has opened the opportunity for a pair of rookies to make their case for a rotation spot in Mitch Bratt and Kohl Drake, two of the three players the Rangers exchanged in the Merrill Kelly trade last season. The two rookies have had an uneven introduction to the big leagues in their first eight combined starts, but Bratt's sixth career start was a huge step forward, giving the youngster his first big league win. I don't want to overstate the performance. It's always impressive when a rookie is able to complete seven innings of scoreless baseball, regardless of the relative weakness of the opposing offense. But it's also not as if Bratt had pinpoint command of all of his pitches, throwing slightly more than half of his 92 pitches on the night for a strike.I think it's more accurate to describe the outing as effectively wild rather than wildly effective. Regardless, limiting the Padres to just three walks is an important developmental milestone for the young lefty whose walk rate has skyrocketed since making his debut and will be a closely watched development moving forward.
Of course, with the way the Arizona offense was cooking tonight, an effective position player could have likely earned a win on the mound. It was exactly the kind of balanced offensive attack that Torey Lovullo often preaches with valuable contributions coming from nearly every player in the lineup as seven out of nine of the starters got at least one hit or more. Even better, it didn't overly rely on a single method for scoring, but featured sacrifice flies, home runs, and timely hits with runners in scoring position. They got the party started in the third with a sacrifice fly from Gabriel Moreno scoring Corbin Carroll who had walked, stolen second, and moved to third already. Tim Tawa added another run on a two-out blast off a lifeless splitter, but it wasn't until the fourth that the party really started. After James McCann led off the inning with a harmless flyout, his teammates started a hit parade with five straight k

Applied Digital Corp (NASDAQ:APLD)'s transformation from a crypto-mining/data-center hosting company to an AI infrastructure provider is beginning to reflect in its earnings. The company is enjoying robust growth fueled by rapid conversion of its data center footprint into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure. Likewise, hyperscaler leases and tenant buildout are increasingly driving near-term revenue growth.
Shares have gained more than 20% year to date, with the stock remaining volatile and below some of its recent highs. The market is particularly focused on the company's execution, financing, profitability, and timing of future cash flows. Sentiment and outlook for the stock are slowly changing, triggering prospects of a potential breakout after months of underperformance.
Robust revenue growth affirms why Applied Digital Corp (NASDAQ:APLD) is a compelling investment play on improving underlying fundamentals. The company delivered fiscal fourth quarter 2026 revenue of $258.7 million, up 407% year over year and topping estimates of $94.8 million. Similarly, full-year revenue was up 167% to $611.3 million. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.04 above expectations of a $0.22 loss.
The 407% revenue growth suggests the company is no longer a future AI story but a company that's converting data center capacity into sales. The growth has come as the company shifts toward building large, power-dense data centers that it leases to hyperscalers and AI cloud companies, thereby securing key revenue streams.
The Data Center Hosting segment generated $38 million in revenue in Q4 FY2025. Revenue in the segment increased to $203 million as of Q4 FY2026, suggesting new leases are becoming bigger than Traditional Data Center Hosting, which was essentially flat at $37.3 million.

#Growth

A mystery buyer holds nearly $20 million in SPCX $330-strike calls expiring Friday, requiring the stock to nearly triple from $120.
Kochuba rules out retail, hedge funds, and market-makers, pointing instead to a bank hedging short exposure in the stock or volatility.
Pestrichelli says a $100 rally to $215 by Wednesday morning could make the position profitable, framing it as a cheap hedge rather than a speculative bet.
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Open interest in a single out-of-the-money **** eX (NASDAQ:SPCX) call option is now approaching $20 million, and no one on Wall Street can say for certain who is behind it. The contract in question is the $330-strike call expiring this Friday, August 7, a strike that would require SPCX to nearly triple in four trading days from around $119.59. Brent Kochuba, founder of SpotGamma, thinks the fingerprints point to a big bank.

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SanDisk's datacenter revenue surged 645% and Micron's jumped 346% YoY, helping to fuel today's 8% and 6% rallies after both stocks fell sharply last month.
RBC Capital initiated SK Hynix at Outperform with a $200 target as Seagate posted record fiscal 2026 free cash flow of $3.1 billion.
SanDisk and SK Hynix unveiled the first High Bandwidth Flash industry standard, a blueprint that could expand the AI memory addressable market across chip vendors.
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Memory and storage stocks are surging Tuesday morning, with SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) leading a broad rebound across the group. SanDisk stock is up 8% to $1,393. Micron Technology shares are up 6% to $880, and SK Hynix (NASDAQ:SKHY) shares are climbing 4% to $148.

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Allworth Financial, a Folsom, Calif.-based registered investment advisor with $39 billion in client ******* ets, has acquired Sachetta, a Lynnfield, Mass.-based wealth management and tax advisory firm overseeing $1.1 billion in ******* ets under management.
In addition, the RIA announced it has added Arthur Stein Financial, a Bethesda, Md.-based RIA specializing in financial planning for federal employees and retirees. That firm, majority owned by Arthur Stein, has about $141 million in AUM, according to its most recent Form ADV.
The moves come after Allworth executed a recapitalization in April led by Integrum Holdings and including former investors Lightyear Capital and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The investment was structured to ******* ist in "Allworth's organic growth plan, including expanding its national footprint through high-quality partnerships with firms that share its long-term commitment to clients, advisors and employees," the RIA wrote in the deal announcement.
The move for Sachetta adds 21 professionals, including 13 wealth and tax advisors, and approximately 630 client households in the Boston area.

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UK-based self-adhesive labels manufacturer Crown Labels has added a Domino N730i digital label press to expand output.
The machine has taken the place of one of the company's two Domino N610i presses.
The change is intended to help the business handle rising order volumes, lift throughput and undertake more high-end label work.
With the N730i, production speeds have reached 90m/min in high-speed productivity mode while print resolution goes up to 1,200dpi.
Its seven-colour configuration, including orange and violet inks, has also enabled Crown Labels to move a larger share of work from flexographic processes to digital production.

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Aug 4 (Reuters) - AI cloud computing company CoreWeave said on Tuesday it is expanding into Indonesia and adding three ‌new facilities in the country, marking the firm's first ‌data-center presence in the Asia Pacific region.
CoreWeave has benefited from a surge in demand for AI cloud infrastructure globally, as tech companies rush to secure the hardware and cloud capacity needed to develop and run AI systems. The company has been investing heavily in its data-center footprint ‌to cater to the ⁠demand.
Here are some details on the expansion:
• CoreWeave will add a total of 360 megawatts of contracted ⁠power through the three data centers, and will own and operate all three sites.
• "Across Asia, enterprises, AI-native companies, and governments increasingly need AI compute located close to their data and users, driven by both latency-sensitive ‌workloads and data locality requirements. CoreWeave's move... reflects this shift," the company said.

#cloud #demand

Since taking the reins at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB), Greg Abel has been busy reshaping the conglomerate's stock portfolio. He trimmed the enormous Apple stake, built a large position in Alphabet, and closed out more than a dozen smaller holdings.
Yet one corner of the empire he has left almost entirely alone is energy. Coming from a CEO who spent his career running Berkshire's energy business, that may be a signal worth reading closely.
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Berkshire's energy footprint is substantial, and Abel has not reduced it. Chevron remains a top-five holding at roughly 7% of the equity portfolio, and Berkshire has held on to its large Occidental Petroleum stake without trimming a share. If anything, the company has deepened the relationship, completing the purchase of Occidental's OxyChem business earlier this year. On top of the stocks sits Berkshire Hathaway Energy, the wholly owned utility giant that Abel himself built into a powerhouse. While the technology portfolio got reshuffled, energy simply stood pat.
Abel is an energy operator at his core, so leaving these bets alone, and even adding to them, hints at real conviction. The timing sharpens the point. Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a surge in electricity demand, and Abel has said that roughly half of Berkshire Hathaway Energy's businesses now serve AI-related power needs, with data centers already making up a growing share of the load in some of its markets. Seen that way, both the oil stocks and the utilities look less like leftovers and more like a deliberate bet on a world that will need vastly more energy. Abel may simply see durable, underappreciated value in the one industry he knows better than anyone.

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Management attributed Q2 performance to the successful execution of a 10% promotional price increase in North America, which fully offset price/mix headwinds in Latin America.
The company is undergoing its largest portfolio refresh in a decade, transitioning over 30% of the North American MDA portfolio to new products to drive premium mix and market share.
Operational progress was supported by a 100 basis point tailwind in net costs as the company moved past the heavy inventory reduction actions taken in the first quarter.
Strategic footprint changes in Iowa, Brazil, and Mexico are being implemented to accelerate vertical integration and automation, though the vast majority of benefits are expected in 2027.

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Performance was driven by a 45% increase in printer sales, signaling a return of customer capital spending and the successful refresh of the product portfolio.
The company is shifting focus toward four key high-growth markets: medtech, dental, aerospace and defense, and data center infrastructure, which are adopting additive manufacturing for production.
Healthcare remains the largest segment, bolstered by strong demand for orthopedic implants and the successful launch of the NextDent 300 denture system.
Industrial segment revenue was modestly lower year-over-year as growth in aerospace, defense, and data center infrastructure was offset by the replacement of older systems and competition in consumer-facing markets.

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Revenue growth of 15% sequentially was driven by strengthening demand for advanced etch and deposition applications supporting AI infrastructure and gate-all-around architectures.
Gross margin expansion of 130 basis points to 14.1% resulted from a structural footprint realignment and improved product mix favoring proprietary components and non-semi business.
Management attributed the Q2 revenue shortfall to isolated part shortages in flow control that were resolved within days of the quarter end, shifting that volume into Q3.
Operational efficiencies in machining and component businesses drove product margin expansion independent of factory utilization gains.

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The NWSL on Wednesday revealed the schedule footprint for its 2027 season, which will feature a seven-week summer break for the Women's World Cup and a February start, the earliest in the league's history.
The regular season will begin on 11 February with a match hosted by Angel City in Los Angeles, three days before Super Bowl LXI is played in the same city. The annual Challenge Cup, which pits the reigning champion against the Shield winner, will be played on 6 February at a location to be determined.
Related: Continuity, chaos and Rodman: how Washington Spirit are thriving in NWSL
Each team will play a 30-game schedule. The break will cover the entirety of the World Cup, which runs from 24 June to 25 July in Brazil. The regular season concludes with a Decision Day on 31 October, with playoffs in the first two weekends of November and the championship on 20 November.
During the 2023 Women's World Cup, the NWSL paused regular season play for five weeks but continued playing the Challenge Cup, at the time an in-season tournament. In the three years since, the league has expanded from 12 teams to 16 and increased its overall regular season match calendar from 132 to 240.

#World

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Alimentation Couche-Tard announced on Friday that it planned to buy Żabka, Poland's largest convenience retailer, for about $8.6 billion. If the deal goes through, Żabka's 13,000 stores in Poland and Romania would significantly bolster Couche-Tard's presence in the region.
But what's inside the stores may be just as important for the Canadian retailer. Key parts of the Polish retailer's business could support Core + More, the forward-looking strategy Couche-Tard rolled out earlier this year.
"This is a unique opportunity to invest in a business we deeply admire, one that is already operating at the leading edge of convenience in areas such as food, digital engagement, supply chain and innovation," said Alex Miller, president and CEO of Couche-Tard, in a presentation on Friday. He added, "many of the capabilities we believe will define the future of convenience already exist at scale within Żabka."
When an ******* yst asked if Couche-Tard would proliferate the best parts of Żabka across the rest of its footprint if the deal closed, Miller listed off areas where the European chain could help improve its business in North America and elsewhere.

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Barely two years after he first stepped on to a sprinting track, Gloucestershire teenager James Arminio will compete for Great Britain at this week's Under-20 World Championships in Oregon.
The 18-year-old, who is due to collect his A-Level results when he returns from the USA, is competing in the 4x100m relay and 100m.
"It's all happened really quickly so it's been a lot to take on whilst juggling A-Levels at the same time," Arminio told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"But I still have so much more to learn, I'm still new to the sport, I'm nowhere near where I need to be in terms of what I've learned. There's still much more improvement there, so much more gains to make."
It was only when Arminio started sixth form in 2024 he first got a taste of athletics, having previously played football which he says he "never took too seriously".

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Michael Thorbjornsen fired a bogey-free 63 on Sunday at the Rocket Classic to secure his first PGA Tour victory in dramatic fashion.
The 24-year-old broke into the winner's circle with a jaw-dropping dissection of Detroit Golf Club, capping it off with a thrilling birdie on the 72nd hole to seal the deal. And when the pressure was at its highest, Thorbjornsen entrusted Adidas clothing to help keep him cool, comfortable and collected. He stepped up when it mattered most, and while it might be tough to emulate his elite golf game, you can certainly look the part.
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in a rare downsizing of America's global diplomatic footprint, according ‌to people familiar with the notice.
In the notice sent to some congressional committees late last week, the State ‌Department said it planned to close its posts in St. George's, Grenada; Nagoya, ****** an; Medan, Indonesia; Douala, Cameroon; and Winnipeg, Canada. The people familiar with the notice spoke on the condition of anonymity because the notice was not public.
The expected closures, which have not been previously reported, represent a rare example of the U.S. closing multiple foreign missions in a downsizing that is not tied to a particular geopolitical event.
Early last year, during the opening months of the Trump administration, the State Department began preparations to shut down nearly ‌a dozen foreign missions, Reuters and other ⁠media outlets reported at the time, as part of a broader push by the Republican president to transform the U.S. bureaucracy so that it is fully aligned with his "America First" agenda.

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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) just extended its diagnostics franchise into one of oncology's toughest corners. On July 23, the company said European regulators had certified its PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx test, Code SK006, as a companion diagnostic for epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal carcinoma. That lets pathologists flag patients who might benefit from Merck's Keytruda. It is a narrow, technical-sounding approval, but it adds up to something bigger: Agilent's diagnostics business keeps racking up new indications while competitors scramble to keep pace.
Bull Case: A Diagnostics Machine That Keeps Adding Indications
This is now the eighth CE-marked indication for the 22C3 pharmDx ****** ay in the EU, following FDA approval of a related PD-L1 test (28-8 pharmDx) for esophageal and gastric cancers just nine days earlier. Each new label doesn't require Agilent to build a new product; it just extends the reach of an ****** ay already running in labs worldwide, which is a high-margin way to grow. Agilent has also been adding inorganically, closing its acquisition of Biocare Medical in June to deepen its clinical pathology reach, the same market where this new ovarian cancer approval lives. Together, the pipeline of regulatory wins and the acquisition strategy point to a company compounding its diagnostics footprint one label at a time rather than swinging for one blockbuster product.
Bear Case: A Crowded Diagnostics Field With A Scarier Neighbor
Companion diagnostics is not Agilent's alone to win. Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR), through its Leica Biosystems unit, competes directly for the same pathology lab budgets and just agreed on July 14 to acquire StatLab Medical Products to strengthen its own histology and AI-pathology pipeline. Danaher's own stock cratered 14% on July 21 after it trimmed its core revenue growth outlook, even though it beat on earnings and raised its profit forecast.

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