UK economy expected to grow by just 0.75% this year, in fresh blow to Rachel Reeves’s attempts to raise confidence Rachel Reeves’s plans for growth suffered a double blow after the Bank of England halved its forecast for the year and warned households would face mounting pressure from rising prices. […]
Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humans Thailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict. Asian elephants have been classified as endangered since 1986. But […]
Ange Postecoglou mused recently about hope and the inherent futility of it in terms of the way things have gone for Tottenham this season. Every time the manager had seen “light at the end of the tunnel”, he said, it had “usually been an oncoming train”. He was talking about […]
President’s plan for US to take over Gaza Strip and move Palestinians out also rejected by allies Saudi Arabia and Jordan US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, delight from Israel’s far […]
Angela Rayner meets bereaved to tell them west London block will ‘be carefully deconstructed’ Grenfell Tower is to be demolished, bereaved families are understood to have been told by Angela Rayner. Rayner, the deputy prime minister and housing secretary, met relatives and survivors on Wednesday evening and “announced the decision […]
Prime minister vows to ‘push past nimbyism’ and calls on tech firms to help build small modular reactors to power AI datacentres Keir Starmer will unveil plans for a historic expansion in nuclear power across England and Wales, pledging to use Labour’s large majority to make new sites across the […]
Japanese practice Sanaa’s slender, stripped-back buildings boast walls that are just 16mm thick and concrete canopies that look as if they could float away It is not often as an architecture critic that you find yourself referring to the dimensions of a building in millimetres. But then few buildings are […]
Rothschild & Co investigated complaint against the late financier in 2003 and he left shortly afterwards The financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild left the bank that bears his family name in 2004 after an investigation into a sexual misconduct complaint, it has emerged. Staff at Rothschild & Co were told […]
Netanyahu calls Trump the ‘greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House’ at a new conference alongside the US president Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza The second Israeli soldier killed in the attack at a military checkpoint in the West Bank earlier today […]
President’s plan, which is low on detail, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries Trump announce plan to take over Gaza – live updates Donald Trump has vowed that the US would “take over” war ravaged Gaza and “own it”, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing […]