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CNN  —  Scuffed, scratched and stained, this black leather Birkin bag just sold for €8.6 million ($10 million), with fees, becoming the most expensive handbag to ever sell at auction. The hammer fell at a winning bid of €7 million ($8.2 million). The first ever Birkin to have been created by Hermès, the bag was designed for the British actor and singer Jane Birkin. The Francophone style icon used it nearly every day from 1985 to 1994, before it became the ultimate symbol of luxury. On Thursday, the rarefied bag was sold by auction house Sotheby’s in an online sale…

London CNN  —  London’s Heathrow Airport is hoping to get travelers into the holiday mood this summer with a soundtrack of real-life jet engines, lift dings and baggage sirens. Created by Grammy-nominated Jordan Rakei, “Music for Heathrow” is the first track to be made entirely with sounds recorded from an airport, according to an announcement from the UK airport Tuesday. To help create the song, Rakei was given “unprecedented” access to Europe’s busiest airport. He sampled more than 50 sounds from the airfield, baggage handling systems and the terminals, Heathrow Airport said. Sounds featured in the song include passports being…

Israel Katz is calling it a “humanitarian city”, from which Palestinians will be encouraged to “voluntarily emigrate” out of Gaza. But analysts believe the Israeli defence minister, who unveiled plans this week to confine over two million Palestinians into a small area in southern Gaza, is using distorted language.Experts in genocide and international law say the “humanitarian city” is more akin to a concentration camp. And any talk of “voluntary emigration”, they told Middle East Eye, should actually be read as forcible displacement.  The proposals are not fringe discussions. They were revealed by Katz, and appear to have the backing of…

Jul 10, 2025, 08:25 AM ETLiverpool’s game against Preston North End will take place as planned on Sunday, sources have told ESPN, in what will be the first match since Diogo Jota’s death.The Premier League champions’ first preseason friendly of the summer had been in doubt after Jota and his brother André Silva’s passing last week, but the club have decided to fulfill the fixture.It could include several first-team players, who reported to training on Tuesday. The initial planned return to preseason training was delayed, with many players having attended the funeral in Portugal last Saturday.There are likely to be…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Delta Air Lines — Shares advanced nearly 12% before the opening bell after the airline reinstated its 2025 profit outlook , and second-quarter revenue and net income exceeded analyst estimates. Brazilian stocks — The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ) dropped nearly 2% premarket after President Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports into the U.S. Brazil’s president said the country would respond with similar duties of its own targeting American products. Shares of oil giant Petrobras fell more than 1%, while commercial and executive jet maker Embraer sank 6.5%.…

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. First to $4 trillionAll three major averages closed higher on Wednesday after bullish AI sentiment fueled a rally in Big Tech stocks. Leading the way was Nvidia, which became the first company to hit $4 trillion in market cap. The chipmaker briefly touched the record level shortly after the market opened but ended the session up 1.8% with a market cap of $3.97 trillion. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed at a record high, climbing 0.94% to end the session at 20,611.34. The S&P 500 added 0.61%…

The smelting area, where the copper is smelted and then placed in molds and cooled, at the Codelco El Teniente processing facility in Machali, Chile, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLondon-listed mining firms bounced on Thursday, shaking off recent losses to drive the U.K.’s FTSE 100 index to a record high as investors assessed the impact of 50% U.S. copper tariffs and stronger Chinese economic data.Anglo American shares were 5% higher at midday in London, with Rio Tinto and Glencore both up 4.5% and Antofagasta up 3%.The gains come amid turbulence in the copper market,…

Arsenal are yet to complete the striker signing fans crave but progress is being made on other areas of the squad as Christian Norgaard becomes their third recruit of the summer.The former Brentford captain arrives for an initial £10m, signing a two-year deal with an option for a further year, and joins fellow new arrivals Martin Zubimendi and Kepa Arrizabalaga at the club. The 31-year-old’s signing has split opinion but what makes Norgaard appealing? Does it make sense to target a Premier League-ready player in his position? And what’s next on the to-do list?Who is Norgaard replacing?News of Arsenal’s move…

Arsenal have completed the signing of midfielder Christian Norgaard from Brentford in a deal worth up to £15m.Norgaard has signed a two-year deal with the option of the third and is the club’s third signing of the summer. Sky Sports News reported last month that they agreed a £15m deal with Brentford to sign the defensive midfielder. That deal is broken up into a guaranteed £10m plus £5m in add-ons.The prospect of playing in the Champions League was a big factor in Norgaard making the switch across London to Arsenal.He said: “You can get almost emotional because maybe it was…

Key PointsA third of investment firms of the ultra-rich have invested in sports, according to a new family office survey by BNY Mellon.While billionaire sports-team buyouts get the headlines, family offices are increasingly investing in adjacent assets like live-viewing venues and betting apps.Here’s how the family offices of ultra-rich sports team owners like David Blitzer and Dan Gilbert are spreading their bets.A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. 2025 has been a banner…