Adam Eley & Anna Collinson BBC News Investigations BBC Sam says she has walked to her gym 150 times in four years just to shower On a cold and wet evening, Sam Lewis walks to her local gym for a shower. It is a painful and slow journey, using a walking stick. The 34-year-old’s rheumatoid […]
President Trump promised voters that, if elected, he would enact policies that would bring prices down on “Day 1” in office. But three weeks into his term, Mr. Trump and White House officials have become more measured in how they discuss their efforts to tame inflation. They have begun downplaying the likelihood that consumer costs […]
Getty Images As many as 140,000 bereaved parents, children and siblings of infected blood scandal victims may claim compensation under new laws laid before Parliament. It is thought 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis from contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s. The new laws will allow the relatives of those infected to claim […]
Reuters There have been 33 confirmed outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza on UK farms so far Almost 1.8 million farmed and captive birds have been culled in the past three months because of the spread of avian flu across the UK, the BBC has learned. There have been 33 outbreaks of the virus on […]
It hurt then. It hurts a little more now. Then, he was 21 years old, at the top of his game and the top of the world. The words “acetabular labrum” weren’t in his vocabulary, and COVID-19 didn’t even exist. There was nothing but 40-goal seasons ahead, and he’d be pulling that Team Canada sweater […]
Stocks on Wall Street slumped at the start of trading on Wednesday, dragged lower by data that showed consumer prices rose more than expected in January, leaving the Federal Reserve little cause to lower interest rates again soon. The S&P 500 fell roughly 1 percent as trading got underway. The Nasdaq Composite index, which is […]
Asha Patel BBC News, Nottingham Reporting fromNottingham Magistrates’ Court Ryan Parker/Emmie Studencki Quinn Parker was delivered by emergency Caesarean section at Nottingham City Hospital in July 2021 An NHS trust has been fined £1.6m for “avoidable failings” connected to the deaths of three babies in 2021. Adele O’Sullivan, Kahlani Rawson and Quinn Parker died shortly […]
U.S. inflation rose to 3 percent in January, strengthening the case for the Federal Reserve to extend a pause on interest rate cuts. The Consumer Price Index unexpectedly ticked higher from a year earlier, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on Wednesday, up from 2.9 percent in December. Compared to December, consumer prices […]
US President Donald Trump’s latest statements that called for cancelling the ceasefire in Gaza have caused outrage across the Middle East and beyond. Although some analysts claim that he will not follow through on his threat, it has given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the support he needed to upend the deal and restart the war. […]
Feb 12, 2025, 05:25 AM ET Manchester United defender Lisandro Martínez has hit back at club great Paul Scholes over his claim that the Argentina international “isn’t good enough to win the Premier League.” Scholes has been critical of a number of United players as the club struggle for form in the Premier League. Ruben […]