A Tory minister named in a Privileges Committee report for interfering in Boris Johnson’s partygate probe has resigned from government. Lord Zac Goldsmith, a former MP, has quit his environmental role, claiming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was “simply uninterested” in the issue. ‘Hugely important day for NHS’, minister says – politics latest On Thursday, the
Month: June 2023
Another week, another seven days closer to the kick-off of Rugby World Cup 2023. Excitement is starting to ramp up around the globe as the competing nations start to drop their respective kits, and supporters learn what jerseys they’ll be wearing as they cheer on from the stands across France. The feedback to the All
The government will be in court today as it fights an order from the COVID inquiry to handover unredacted messages from Boris Johnson. The probe was set up by the former prime minister to look into the handling of the pandemic, and hearings have already begun. But its chair, Baroness Hallet, became frustrated with the
Rising mortgage rates have yet to hit the housing market but threaten to be a “significant drag” in the short-term, Nationwide has said. However, the high street lender said “a relatively soft landing is still possible” against a backdrop of income growth and modest falls in property prices. The building society also said while typical
In October last year, Tetiana Bodak was away from her home in southern Ukraine attending her mother’s funeral. While she was out, armed Russian men in balaclavas arrived and ordered her 17-year-old son Vlad Rudenko to go with them. He at first refused but realised he had little choice. “They had weapons with them. And
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Oil rigs on platforms in Gaoyu Lake in east China’s Jiangsu province Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Barcroft Media | Getty Images Oil and gas will continue to be leading sources of energy for decades to come on the back of a lagging energy transition, major industry players said at the Energy Asia conference held in
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google tried to distance itself from a pre-planned drag show featuring longtime performer “Peaches Christ” in San Francisco but employees still attended. Some of them booed their employer for what they viewed as a caving to pressure of an internal religion-led protest. Jennifer Elias A
The rapper Travis Scott will not face criminal charges over a deadly crowd crush during his concert, a Texas grand jury has decided. Scott, 32, was performing at the Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, in 2021, when 10 people were killed in a crowd crush. His lawyer, Kent Schaffer, confirmed that a grand jury
A former sheriff’s deputy accused of failing to protect students during a 2018 mass shooting at a US school has been acquitted by a Florida jury. Gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 and wounded another 17 when he opened fire at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on 14 February, 2018. Scot Peterson, the school resource
Shorter medical degrees, apprenticeships, and £2.4bn in funding are among the radical plans being put forward to solve NHS England’s severe staffing crisis. The long-awaited NHS workforce plan is due to be published in full on Friday, outlining how the service will address existing vacancies and meet the challenges of a growing and ageing population.
Elon Musk says that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) is going to get out of “Beta” with the upcoming version 12 update. Should we care? While Musk claimed that Tesla’s FSD is in beta to emphasize the need for drivers to pay attention and be ready to take control at all times, many believe that it
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia has ambitious goals to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — but the Southeast Asian nation cannot do it alone, said the country’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. “They expect developing countries like Malaysia to do it on our own which is not realistic,” Anwar told CNBC’s JP Ong at
Karl-Josef Hildenbrand | AFP | Getty Images Car-sharing service Turo filed its IPO prospectus in January 2022. A month earlier, Reddit said it submitted a draft registration for a public offering. Instacart’s confidential paperwork was filed in May of last year. None of them have hit the market yet. Despite a bloated pipeline of companies
Jun 29, 2023, 07:52 AM ET Editor’s note: This is the first installment in our “How to Fix Boxing” series. Mike Coppinger, Ben Baby and Michael Rothstein will address the biggest challenges in the sport and discuss solutions with fighters, promoters and others with hopes of providing realistic solutions. ARLINGTON, Texas — The annoyance was
France is set to deploy 40,000 officers on Thursday evening amid fears of a third night of rioting in the capital triggered by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old boy. Bus and tram services are also set to shut down early so they are not “targets for thugs and vandals”, a Paris region official
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