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June 5 (Reuters) – U.S.-based Apollo Global Management does not intend to make a firm offer for British thermal processing services company Bodycote, the groups said on Friday, ending talks over a £1.52 billion ($2.04 billion) proposal. The alternative asset manager had submitted a conditional all-cash bid to Bodycote last month following several previous approaches, sending its shares surging as the 885 pence per share offer stood at a nearly […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A failed coach’s challenge by John Tortorella was a momentum-changing moment in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night. His Vegas Golden Knights appeared to score with five minutes left in regulation, but referee Jean Hebert waved it off immediately, citing goaltender interference. Hebert announced that he and the other on-ice officials thought Ivan Barbashev pushed Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen to knock […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb took a puck to the face that knocked him out of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night. A slap shot from Carolina’s Nikolaj Ehlers hit McNabb square in the face just past the midway point of the first period. McNabb dropped his stick, went down to the ice and grabbed his nose as he skated immediately […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — More than 100,000 live cockroaches illegal to keep in Australia were confiscated from a single breeder in the country’s largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates, officials said Friday. The haul of Madagascar hissing cockroaches and dubia cockroaches, worth 200,000 Australian dollars ($142,000), was seized in May from a commercial breeder in the city of Bathurst in New South Wales state, according to Australia’s Department of Climate […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia, with South Korea’s benchmark dropping more than 5%, after sharp declines for some big artificial intelligence-related stocks in the U.S. U.S. futures also retreated. On Wall Street on Thursday, computer chipmaker Broadcom’s shares sank 12.6% when it gave a forecast that fell short of investors’ expectations, raising concerns over the wider AI and technology sector. U.S. memory chip maker Micron Technology […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The time was coming, the Carolina Hurricanes kept insisting, when their top-line guys and the power play would make big plays. Turns out, they were right. Just in time, too, to keep the Hurricanes in their Stanley Cup Final series against the Vegas Golden Knights. Seth Jarvis blasted a one-timer past Carter Hart on the power play at the 3:56 mark of overtime — a breakthrough […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The time was coming, the Carolina Hurricanes kept insisting, when their top-line guys and the power play would make big plays. Turns out, they were right. Just in time, too, to keep the Hurricanes in their Stanley Cup Final series against the Vegas Golden Knights. Seth Jarvis blasted a one-timer past Carter Hart on the power play at the 3:56 mark of overtime — a breakthrough […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is delving into the hotly contested issue of migration by visiting two flashpoints — Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic next week, and Italy’s Lampedusa island in the Mediterranean in early July. These rocky, remote outposts of Europe have struggled with the arrival of tens of thousands of mostly African migrants through some of the world’s deadliest migration routes. Even as numbers decreased […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is delving into the hotly contested issue of migration by visiting two flashpoints — Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic next week, and Italy’s Lampedusa island in the Mediterranean in early July. These rocky, remote outposts of Europe have struggled with the arrival of tens of thousands of mostly African migrants through some of the world’s deadliest migration routes. Even as numbers decreased […]