Having announced minimum wage boost, chancellor to say she can spare working people from tax rises The UK’s national minimum wage is to rise by a higher than expected 6.7% next year, Rachel Reeves has announced before a multi-billion pound tax-raising budget designed to act as the springboard for a […]
Year: 2024
Almost half of global land area saw extreme drought for at least one month, according to Lancet Countdown Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the climate crisis have reached record levels, according to a landmark report. The Lancet Countdown’s ninth report on health and […]
Vice-president strikes hopeful tone in remarks delivered from site of Trump’s speech before deadly January 6 attack With the White House illuminated behind her, Kamala Harris asked the vanishing slice of undecided Americans to elect a “new generation of leadership”, likening Donald Trump to a “petty tyrant” who had stood […]
Punches were allegedly exchanged in ‘extraordinary’ incident that delayed plane at Heathrow for two hours Two women were removed from a British Airways flight at Heathrow after an altercation reportedly provoked by a Make America Great Again (Maga) cap. The incident occurred on Saturday as the women, aged 40 and […]
Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is already charged with three counts of murder, faces new charges of possessing terrorist material and making poison The suspect accused of murdering three girls in Southport is facing new charges of possessing terrorist material and producing the highly toxic poison ricin, police have announced. Axel […]
Funding for more surgical hubs and radiotherapy machines planned in what PM says will be budget to ‘fix foundations’ The budget will revive a “broken but not beaten” NHS, Labour ministers have said, with billions of pounds of funding to be announced in an effort to cut record waiting lists. […]
Lawmakers also voted to declare UN relief agency a terror group, banning any direct interaction with Israeli state Middle East crisis – latest updates Israel’s parliament has voted to ban the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) from the country within 90 days, in defiance of US and other international […]
Former president goes to bat for Harris as Trump claims country ‘dumping ground’ for other nations’ jails Outcry over Trump’s hint at ‘little secret’ with House Republicans Share your reactions to the racist remarks about Puerto Rico Here’s our story of the resignation of Washington Post columnist Michele Norris, the […]
British Retail Consortium says prices falling at fastest rate in three years and are 0.8% lower than a year ago The chances of a fresh cut in interest rates from the Bank of England next week have been boosted by a report that shows shop prices falling at their fastest […]
Seven Met officers accused of accessing X-rays and witness information after Wayne Couzens was arrested Police viewed confidential information about the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard such as her X-rays out of “curiosity”, a disciplinary hearing heard. Seven Metropolitan police officers were accused of looking at sensitive information relating […]