For 14 seconds, Jordan Chiles paused and looked down to collect her thoughts and emotions. The question — about what Chiles felt she lost when the International Olympic Committee stripped her of her bronze medal in the Olympic women’s gymnastics floor exercise — forced her to stop mid-answer. The audience at the Forbes Power Women’s […]
Getty Images The first “citizens’ jury” on assisted dying in England has backed a change in the law to allow people who are terminally ill to end their life. A jury of 28 people concluded it should be an option for those judged to have capacity to make their own decisions. While it has no […]
Republican candidate says workers who put in more than 40 hours should not pay taxes on overtime. Former United States President Donald Trump has pledged to scrap all taxes on overtime work if re-elected to the White House. Addressing supporters in Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday, Trump said the plan to eliminate taxes on work beyond […]
Cheers as Isaacman steps out of the hatch A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space – a spacewalk. Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart, starting at 11:52BST, wearing specially-designed suits. “Back at home […]
UK national debt is on course to treble over the next half a century due to several pressures, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). Those pressures include an ageing population, hotter temperatures due to climate change, and rising geopolitical tensions, the OBR’s new Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report revealed. “The OBR has laid […]
Getty Images “Ballooning” NHS waiting times and delays getting vital treatment in A&E and cancer care is harming health and costing lives, according to a critical government-commissioned report on the service in England. People have “every right to be angry,” Sir Keir Starmer will warn on Thursday, adding the health service must “reform or die”. […]
Investors are scrambling to shift their positioning following the closely-watched debate between US Republican Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, as betting markets swung in Harris’s favour after the event. Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the company that owns Truth Social, fell 13 percent on Wednesday afternoon, while other so-called Trump […]
Hurricane Francine has made landfall in southern Louisiana after growing in strength into a Category 2 storm over the Gulf of Mexico. The storm hit Terrebonne Parish at 17:00 local time (23:00GMT) on Wednesday, carrying winds of 100 mph (155 km/h), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Louisiana and neighbouring Mississippi have declared states of […]
Getty Images Fewer than 150,000 western lowland gorillas survive in the wild in Central and West Africa Self-medicating gorillas may hold clues to future drug discovery, according to scientists. Researchers in Gabon studied tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas – and used also by local human healers – identifying four with medicinal effects. Laboratory studies […]
Inflation in the US continued to cool last month, official figures showed, raising confidence that the US central bank will cut interest rates next week. Consumer prices rose 2.5% over the 12 months to August, as prices for petrol, used cars and trucks, and some other items fell. That marked the slowest pace since February […]