Former first lady derides former president’s much criticized Black jobs comments in DNC speech Trump calls his supporters ‘basement dwellers’, says ex-aide Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, has turned up at the Democratic national convention, for reasons unknown. Cohen fell out with Trump years ago, and was a witness […]
Month: August 2024
Chancellor insists she still has large black hole to fill despite stronger-than-expected growth in first half of 2024 Rachel Reeves is planning to raise taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits in October’s budget amid Treasury alarm that the pickup in the economy has failed to improve the poor […]
Exclusive: Charities say ending household support fund in England will increase hardship for struggling families Analysis: How England came to rely on ‘sticking plaster’ fund More than half a million children will go hungry during school holiday periods from the October half-term if the government fails to renew a £1bn […]
Three-year campaign by parents of aid worker killed in Afghanistan brings 19 trainee doctors to Scotland A group of trainee female doctors from Afghanistan have travelled to Edinburgh to complete their medical degrees after the Taliban forced them to quit studying. The 19 women arrived in the UK on Tuesday […]
The US secretary of state’s ninth visit to the region since the start of the conflict has ended without truce agreement See all our Middle East coverage US secretary of state Antony Blinken said that “time is of the essence” to secure a Gaza ceasefire, as he wrapped up a […]
UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and daughter also among six unaccounted for after superyacht was hit by tornado and sank Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among those missing after a yacht carrying UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, an […]
Exclusive: RCN renews call for investigation into sector as unscrupulous employers target vulnerable workers The number of foreign social care workers reporting that they are trapped in exploitative contracts has risen sixfold in the last three years, in the latest evidence of widespread abuse of migrants in the British care […]
Former presidential nominee gives speech as crowd chants ‘lock him up’ about Trump; New York congresswoman also hails Harris as champion of middle class Harris thanks Biden in surprise speech at Democratic convention When is Biden’s speech and how to watch it Democrats aren’t shying away from discussing the Covid-19 […]
Rocket Factory Augsburg says ‘anomaly’ led to ‘the loss of the stage’, adding that there were no injuries A rocket company has vowed to return to regular operations “as soon as possible” after an explosion during a test at the UK’s new spaceport in Shetland. The test was carried out […]
Last major crossing on this part of front in Kursk region hit overnight as Ukraine aims to expand ‘buffer zone’ Ukraine has destroyed a third bridge over the Seym River in the Kursk region, as part of an apparent attempt to expand what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has described as a […]