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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Monday 8th November 2021

5. Sydney Airport has agreed to accept a A$23.6bn (£13bn; $17.5bn) takeover bid from a group of investors.

If completed, the deal will one of Australia's biggest ever buyouts.

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4. The UK could cut its total electricity usage by 1% if the top five British supermarkets put doors on fridges, campaigners have said.

Aldi has pledged to put fridge doors in all of its new UK stores, saving 2,000 tonnes of carbon a year.

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3. Reactor designer Rolls Royce will announce that a consortium of investors will back plans for a new smaller nuclear reactor project.

As part of its 10 point green energy plan, the government has already announced it would provide £210m in funding if that could be matched by private capital.

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2. Voters in a Twitter poll have urged Elon Musk to sell 10% of his stake in Tesla in order to pay tax.

More than 3.5 million Twitter users voted in the poll, launched by Musk on Saturday, with nearly 58% voting in favour of the share sale that could see him dispose of nearly $21bn (£16bn) of stock in the electric carmaker.

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1. UK visitors are now able to travel to the US for the first time in nearly two years.

The border reopened at 05:01 GMT and the first flights take off from Heathrow at 08:30 - but all UK visitors over 18 will have to provide proof of vaccination to enter the US.

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