Pilot and a family with three children who are believed to have been Spanish tourists were killed onboard aircraft A helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York on Thursday, killing all six people onboard, including the pilot and a family of Spanish tourists with three children. The sightseeing […]
Year: 2025
In a scarcely credible tale of hubris André Onana was Manchester United’s culprit, committing two howlers that cast the goalkeeper as a mug and Nemanja Matic as a seer. In the buildup to this match, Matic branded Onana one of United’s poorest-ever keepers when responding to the 29-year-old’s claim that […]
Daughter of Peter and Barbie Reynolds, 79 and 75, says they have ‘no idea’ why they have been in jail for two months An elderly British couple taken captive by the Taliban have been interrogated 29 times since they were imprisoned more than two months ago, and still have “absolutely […]
China’s 84% retaliatory tariffs on US goods, announced on Wednesday, are due to come into effect on Thursday Read the latest full report China and the European Union have exchanged views on strengthening their economic and trade cooperation in response to US tariffs, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Thursday, […]
Exclusive: Question of visas for Indian workers said to be nearly resolved and deal may be finalised this year The UK and India have agreed 90% of their free trade agreement, businesses were told on a call with negotiators this week. There are hopes the UK government will succeed in […]
More schools also reducing spending on trips, IT, extracurricular activities and GCSE subject choices Half of secondary schools in England have been forced to cut staff this year due to financial pressures that are pushing many “towards breaking point”, according to polling. As well as cuts to teaching and support […]
Five new boxes in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire enable company to cash in on boom in secondhand selling Royal Mail has unveiled a solar-powered “postbox of the future” with a built-in barcode reader and a hatch to accept parcels larger than letterbox size. In the “biggest change to postbox design since […]
With white paper imminent, Institute for Government urges ministers to abandon ‘reactive, kneejerk’ decisions Ministers should introduce an annual migration plan to put an end to decades of “incoherent, disconnected and unpredictable” policies around work visas, according to a Whitehall thinktank. The Institute for Government (IfG) said that successive governments […]
Stock markets down from Australia to Japan and Taiwan as Trump presses ahead with plans to hit China with huge retaliatory tariffs Today’s tariffs follow Trump’s 10% tariff on all imports from many countries, including Australia, which came into effect at the weekend. US customs agents began collecting the unilateral […]
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’ The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become […]