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SACK RACE
CNN's London bureau received a herogram from boss Matt Wells for their "stellar" election coverage – just a week before the entire newsdesk was sacked.

AD NAUSEAM
The Euros are over, long live the Olympics! Alas, Coca-Cola's ads bigging up togetherness on the streets of Paris arrived just as they erupted in violence.

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
Of ten prolific bot-like social media accounts posting sometimes extremist material, a Global Witness study found that seven also promoted… Reform UK.

A-EYE
Despite predicting last year that AI could raise global GDP by 7 percent, the latest edition of Goldman Sachs's research newsletter reveals one or two doubts.

POP EYE
It's hard to think of a more age-inappropriate pairing than the Rolling Stones licensing their music and name to children's gaming platform Roblox.

COURT CIRCULAR
Prince William is keen to project himself as progressive, but when it comes to men's and women's football, he seems rather old-fashioned.

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