Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla?
Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the firms in what would be the biggest merger in history.
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
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Musk says there's "a lot to be gained" by combining the firms in what would be the biggest merger in history.
Elon Musk has spent years building Tesla and SpaceX into a pair of trillion-dollar technology empires. Now, he is considering bringing them together.
Randy Gail Sperino was last seen alive on the evening of 9 November 1993, as she was getting into a pickup truck in Granite City, Illinois.
US President Donald Trump is facing another legal challenge on tariffs after the group that successfully sued over his so-called "liberation day" import taxes filed a new lawsuit over the latest Canadian levies.
Elon Musk has said he likes the idea of a merger of Tesla and SpaceX, two of his most notable companies, and it is under active consideration.
Google Cloud says it has resolved disruption at its UK cloud site which caused an outage affecting UK banks, businesses and the courts.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has won a dismissal of a lawsuit brought against him by his sister that claimed he had sexually abused her more than two decades ago.
The Unite union has hit out at a plan by NatWest to reduce the rights of 30,000 of its employees to work from home.
The UK government is expected to announce a long-awaited decision on whether to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.
Chancellor John Healey has dismissed calls from some Labour MPs to increase Capital Gains Tax (CGT), according to Treasury sources.
Britain’s ‘pothole plague’ took even more of a toll on drivers in 2025 as RAC patrols attended thousands of pothole-related breakdowns over the course of the year.
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The combination would add four crude carriers, while approximately 96% of the acquisition consideration is expected to be paid in shares.
Checking in at a dating event in a bar in Guildford, Olivia Miller-Davis is understandably apprehensive.
China is poised to keep its benchmark lending rates unchanged for a 17th consecutive month in October, according to a Reuters survey, after stronger-than-expected third-quarter GDP data reduced the likelihood of near-te…
A Saudi national charged with secretly planting a recording device in one of OpenAI's meeting rooms has been accused of having "considerable support" from the Saudi government, according to a court filing, external in C…
Drivers will be given the right to challenge "rip off" private parking charges and more grace when using private providers under new rules set out by Andy Burnham.
Vinted says it has removed listings of items believed to have been looted from shops during the ongoing riots in France.
E-bike rental company Lime has said its bikes are "not for jousting" after footage of two riders dressed as knights charging at each other in an east London park circulated over the weekend.
The UK's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell to its lowest level in more than two weeks on Thursday, weighed down by sharp declines in Asia-focused lenders and miners after reports of tighter offshore banking restrictions in …
The chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee says families should not be taxed through no fault of their own.
The boss of one of Ukraine's biggest steel companies has called on the European Union to drop import restrictions on products made from the country, arguing it has been "bundled together" in measures aimed a curbing che…
Be careful where you buy from, shoppers are being warned as criminals use AI to supercharge scams.
Passengers who play loud music on buses in England could be fined up to £100 under an attempt by the government to crack down on antisocial behaviour.