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    Takeaway.com raised its bid for Just Eat just minutes after Naspers spin-off Prosus upped its offer, intensifying a battle for ownership of the UK food delivery firm.

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    Bernard Ebbers, the former WorldCom CEO, was ordered freed from prison, almost eight years before he was due to be released.

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    Government is reviving a so-called energy “war room” to tackle the nation’s electricity crisis, as it brought forward the date when the incoming CEO of the state power utility will start work.

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