Wall Street’s slide resumed on Thursday, another anxiety-induced drop that left the S&P 500 on the verge of closing in a “correction” — a symbolic marker of the speed at which investors have fled the stock market in recent weeks. Traders, economists and business leaders have been grappling with a rapidly shifting economic landscape as […]
Tom Singleton Technology reporter Getty Images US politicians, civil rights campaigners and the BBC are all calling for a High Court hearing about a data privacy row between Apple and the UK government to be held in public. The tech giant is taking legal action after the Home Office demanded the right to access customer […]
Nick Triggle Health correspondent Helen Catt Political correspondent PA Media The government has announced NHS England will be abolished to “cut bureaucracy” and reform how the National Health Service is run. The changes will not impact anyone’s access to the NHS – but Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it would bring management of the […]
Tomos Morgan BBC Wales Investigates Paul Lynch BBC Shared Data Unit Getty Images Sites with possible contaminated land could be where old factories, power stations, railway lines or landfill sites once were Thousands of sites potentially contaminated with toxic chemicals in Britain have never been checked by councils, a BBC investigation has found. Nine out […]
Nervous investors seeking news about the plunging markets on Monday afternoon would have been out of luck if they turned to the websites of The New York Post, The Daily Caller, One America News or The Blaze. Not one of those right-leaning outlets featured articles about the sell-off as the closing bell rang, cementing Wall […]
Tesco is to begin a trial giving expiring food to customers for free at the end of the day as it tries to cut food waste. The supermarket will give away some already discounted “yellow sticker” items after 21:30 in some of its smaller Express stores in coming months. Tesco already donates expiring food to […]
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Mar 13, 2025, 06:27 AM ET Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois hit out at Atlético Madrid’s complaints over their penalty shootout defeat in the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday, accusing the club of “victimhood” and “always crying about things like this.” Conor Gallagher’s early goal at the Metropolitano saw […]
Getty Images Despite the government’s hopes, the UK has not, in the end, been exempted from President Trump’s 25% steel and aluminium tariffs. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the UK will “keep all options on the table”, but has not announced immediate retaliation. BBC Verify looks at how big the impact on the UK […]
From Thursday night into Friday morning, Earth’s shadow will swallow the moon, transforming the usually pearly orb into a striking red sphere. It’s the first total lunar eclipse in more than two years. Also known as a blood moon, the event will be most visible across the Americas, western parts of Africa and Europe, New […]
Jalen Brunson first experienced the fervor of the N.B.A.’s biggest international market in 2018 when, as a rookie, he traveled with the Dallas Mavericks to China for a pair of preseason games. The trip itself was brief, but the reception that Mr. Brunson and his teammates received left a lasting impression. “The fandom that basketball […]