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UK economy strengthens as service sector returns to growth and car sales jump – business live

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Published 5 Aug 2026, 10:312 min read

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Technology stocks booming again while Brent crude rises back above $80 a barrel after Houthis say they attacked Saudi tanker

In other (bad) news for SpaceX, a four-tonne piece of a discarded SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year is believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon at high speed, in a collision that poses no danger to Earth but was expected to blast out a new lunar crater.

The object, the size of a building, is part of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from the US company Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025.