James Grant BBC News, Northamptonshire Getty Images Families won a landmark legal battle in 2009 after being exposed to toxic chemicals in Corby Netflix’s new drama Toxic Town revisits one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals: the Corby toxic waste case. The series tells the story of families fighting for justice after children in the […]
More than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults around the world are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050. The findings come in a new study of global data published in The Lancet journal, covering more than 200 countries. Researchers warn that obesity levels are predicted to […]
When Jennifer Trebb first pulled into her driveway two years ago with her sleek Tesla Model Y, it was — as she put it — “kind of like a ‘Back to the Future’ moment.” She was helping the environment, she said, but driving a Tesla also had cachet. “It was definitely a little bit of […]
On Sunday evening, as well-heeled guests trickled out of a screening of “Becoming Katharine Graham,” a documentary on the fabled former Washington Post publisher, they couldn’t help but remark on how much has changed at the paper, and in Washington. Under Ms. Graham, from 1963 to 1991, the publication transformed itself from a regional newspaper […]
Nobody knows how exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip. […]
For the third week in a row, Pope Francis has been unable to deliver his traditional Angelus prayer in person, with the Vatican publishing his written comments instead. Vatican officials said the text, sent from his hospital room in Rome, had been written “in the past few days”. In it, the Pope thanked people for […]
Tom Geoghegan & Laura Bicker BBC News, London and Beijing Watch: ‘I’d be pissed if I was Canadian’ – Trump supporters on 51st state jibe US tariffs against Canada and Mexico will go ahead on Tuesday but their level will be decided by Donald Trump, the US commerce secretary has said. The US president has […]
The grocery chain Kroger said on Monday that its chief executive, Rodney McMullen, resigned after a board investigation of his personal conduct. Mr. McMullen’s conduct was not related to the company’s financial performance or its operations, Kroger said in a news release, but it was “inconsistent” with the company’s business ethics policy. His actions did […]
There have been 983 convictions – 700 of which were privately initiated by the Post Office – linked to the faulty Horizon IT programme. People whose convictions are quashed can apply to the Overturned Convictions Scheme, whether or not they are in the GLO group. It is this scheme that the government has taken over […]
President Trump during his last State of the Union address on Feb. 4, 2020. Trump will return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Trump will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on […]