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SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - An Australian court fined Uber Technologies Inc A$21 million ($14 million) on Wednesday for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides.

Judge Michael Hugh O'Bryan said in a written ruling that by supplying inaccurate information on its smartphone app, Uber "would be expected to lead a proportion of consumers to alter their decision and not proceed with the cancellation and perhaps deter future cancellations", while distorting demand for its service.

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The UK's Business Secretary Grant Shapps today denounced the officers' actions as 'unacceptable' and 'concerning'. He told LBC radio: 'Whatever else happens, freedom of the press should be sacrosanct.' 

With the first Test at Trent Bridge less than three weeks away, and English cricket suffering several Covid scares in the past fortnight, the news will be greeted with apprehension at the ECB, who are in charge of testing the Indian team and were on Wednesday night unaware that any of the tourists had returned a positive result.

It is understood close contacts of the player, including team-mates and backroom staff, have already completed an isolation period ahead of the squad's entry into a biobubble in Durham on Thursday - though the infected player will not be joining them for taxi in greece the time being.

Hamilton's younger brother Nicolas, who who was diagnosed with spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy, shortly after birth, contested 12 BTCC races in 2015 at the wheel of an Audi S3, but will tackle the full 30-race schedule this time around.

ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said in a statement that the fine "clearly signals to businesses that misleading consumers about the cost of a product or service is a serious matter which can attract substantial penalties".

ride-sharing app broke consumer law by misleading customers with warnings they would be charged for cancelling some rides from 2017 to 2021 and by using an inaccurate software algorithm to estimate fares for a taxi service it offered until August 2020, taxi greece the Federal Court ruled.



Virat Kohli's team did not leave England after the end of the World Test Championship final against New Zealand in Southampton last month, and have been allowed out of their biobubble ahead of their arrival in the North-East.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which brought the case against Uber, and taxi service in greece the tech firm had already agreed on a fine of A$26 million, but O'Bryan told the court the evidence provided by both sides was "grossly inadequate", leaving him to speculate on the harm to consumers.



The passengers were taken off the Dubai-bound plane, EK 210, after it taxied along the runway - only for the captain to inform them there was a technical problem, and explain they were returning to the gate, said.

The judge had made clear that the lower penalty "should not be understood as any reduction in the court's resolve to impose penalties appropriate to ... deterring contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law", Cass-Gottlieb added.

'Based on what we learned from relevant Shanghai authorities, Volos airport to city taxi cost he did not identify himself as a journalist and didn't voluntarily present his press credentials,' foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, telling international media to 'follow Chinese laws and regulations while in China'.

Shocking footage from the anti-government protests in Shanghai shows Edward Lawrence, a camera operator for the BBC's China Bureau, being dragged away by Xi's officers as he screams 'call the consulate now' to a friend.

The plane circled Sardinia several times - some reports suggested that Italian and French authorities refused to let the plane land Getting around in Greece - and then returned to Athens, flying a circuitous route and taxi Volos airport to piraeus price avoiding passing over Sicily or in greece western Volos greece taxi fare to airport.



'Flight EK209 from Athens to Newark on 10 November also made an unscheduled return to Athens, Greece Transports due to security checks requested by the authorities,' they added, saying passengers had been rebooked to travel on Friday and taxi from Volos port to acropolis been provided with overnight accommodation.

Mr Lawrence was beaten and kicked by the police officers and held in custody for 'several hours' before being released, as Chinese officials sought to crack down on the media and protesters in the city.

A BBC journalist covering historic protests against President Xi Jinping's lockdown rules in China was arrested and beaten by police officers, with Chinese officials later making the bizarre claim that he was detained for his 'own good' in case he caught Covid from the crowd.