SpaceX set for record IPO

What happened Elon Musk’s SpaceX makes its stock market debut on the Nasdaq on Friday after selling 555.6 million shares at $135 each. The roughly $75 billion initial public offering (IPO) is the largest ever and values SpaceX at $1.77 …

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The angry women of Britain

“Women are angry. Vexed. Livid. FUMING,” said Helen Coffey in The Independent. And women in Britain are “apparently the angriest in Europe”. According to the latest Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, nearly one in four of us feel rage, compared …

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The week’s best photos

A woman walks along an empty platform at Montpellier-Saint-Roch train station during an SNCF strike in Montpellier, southern France (Image credit: Guillaume Horcajuelo / EPA / Shutterstock) A couple kisses during the Great Colombian Tomatina, an annual food fight involving …

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Book reviews: ‘Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography’ and ‘Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto’

‘Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography’ by Joshua Kendall The new Garry Trudeau biography is, compared with the comic strip he’s known for, “not as sophisticated, in tone and content,” said Dwight Garner in The New York Times. But while it’s …

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