Stock markets in Asia slumped on Monday morning, following big falls by major indexes around the world last week. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 was trading around 6.4% lower, while the Topix was down more than 7%. It comes after weak jobs data in the US on Friday sparked fears of a recession in the […]
Pharmacies across England are unable to provide critical NHS and public health services owing to the overwhelming financial and operational pressures they are facing, according to research. A poll of pharmacy owners representing more than 2,100 pharmacies found that more than 96% of respondents said they had stopped providing locally commissioned services over the past […]
Google Missiles were thrown and fires lit at the Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth, police said Police have urged people to avoid an area around a hotel in Tamworth, Staffordshire, as they said officers were dealing with “violent acts of thuggery”. According to videos posted on social media, a large crowd had gathered on Sunday […]
Arne Slot’s Liverpool beat Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United on Saturday. Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images New Liverpool manager Arne Slot said his side still have plenty of room for improvement despite wrapping up their preseason tour of the United States with a 3-0 win over Manchester United in South Carolina on Saturday. Slot, who […]
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Stacey Agnew Arla Agnew had a serious reaction after drinking a Slush Puppie A two-year-old girl fell unconscious and had to be hospitalised after drinking a Slush Puppie. Arla Agnew “turned grey” when her blood sugars plummeted after only half a cup of the icy drink at a friend’s house on Saturday. Her mother Carys, […]
The International Olympic Committee stands with the two Olympic boxers in gender test debate, cites flawed IBA testing. The gender tests conducted by the International Boxing Association (IBA) on two female fighters at last year’s world championships that led to their disqualification were illegitimate and lacked credibility, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said. Algerian boxer […]
Derren Fox/BAS A23a is vast. Its flat, table-like top stretches to the horizon Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world’s biggest iceberg. For months now it has been spinning on the spot just north of Antarctica when really it should be racing along with Earth’s most powerful ocean current. Scientists say the frozen block, […]
“I am absolutely devastated for those GB men,” Kate Richardson-Walsh, gold medallist in Rio in 2016, said on BBC TV. “This team is absolutely capable of being Olympic medallists, I have no doubt about that, but we are going to have to wait. “Four years seems a long way away now.” Great Britain have not […]
Getty Images “Desperation” is behind a sharp rise in the number of reports of energy theft or meter tampering, according to a fuel poverty charity. There has been a nearly 50% increase in reports to Crimestoppers but the charity estimates up to 250,000 cases of energy theft go unreported every year. “It’s not a surprise. […]