FTSE 100 hits 9,000 points for first time

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The FTSE 100 has reached 9,000 points for the first time in its history, as UK stocks benefit from global investors diversifying away from the US and from London’s trade deal with Washington. The UK…

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RFK Jr fires entire US vaccine committee

US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, has removed all 17 members of a committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations. Announcing the move in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said that conflicts of interest on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) were responsible for undermining trust…

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Reform council confirms ‘patriotic’ flag policy

Reform has confirmed it will go ahead with plans to scrap the previous administration’s flag flying policy at Leicestershire County Council. The party discontinued a previously agreed schedule of flags due to be displayed outside County Hall in Glenfield during its first cabinet meeting on 12 June, which included those to mark LGBTQ+ Pride Month,…

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Lasers capture the invisible dance of wind and waves

The international team, led by Dr. Marc Buckley from the Hereon Institute of Coastal Ocean Dynamics, has achieved a breakthrough in high-resolution imaging of the ocean surface. Using a specially developed laser measurement system aboard the research platform FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) in the Pacific Ocean, they were able to capture high-resolution images of airflow…

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How Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import streamlined LLM deployment for Salesforce

This post is cowritten by Salesforce’s AI Platform team members Srikanta Prasad, Utkarsh Arora, Raghav Tanaji, Nitin Surya, Gokulakrishnan Gopalakrishnan, and Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare. Salesforce’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform team runs customized large language models (LLMs)—fine-tuned versions of Llama, Qwen, and Mistral—for agentic AI applications like Agentforce. Deploying these models creates operational overheads: teams spend…

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Bats are seeking sanctuary in churches

Rebecca Morelle,Science Editor and Alison Francis,Senior Science Journalist Chris Damant/Bernwood Ecology About half of all churches in England have bats in them It’s a job that can only be done under the cover of darkness. As night falls, the bat hunters make their way amongst the gravestones of Guestwick Church in Norfolk. The creaking door…

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