The UK economy is now predicted to grow at a much slower pace this year than previously expected, according to the government’s official forecaster. Presenting her Spring Statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) thinks the economy will now grow by 1% in 2025, down from its October prediction of 2%. […]
Angus Cochrane BBC Scotland News PA Media Kenny MacAskill served as acting leader following the death of Alba founder Alex Salmond Kenny MacAskill has been announced as the new leader of the pro-independence Alba Party. The contest was held following the sudden death of party founder and former First Minister Alex Salmond. MacAskill, an ex-Alba […]
Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician, received this year’s Abel Prize, which aspires to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in math. Dr. Kashiwara’s highly abstract work combined algebra, geometry and differential equations in surprising ways. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which manages the Abel Prize, announced the honor on Wednesday morning. “First […]
In the first week of the baseball season, there’s a war going on in the hearts and minds of baseball fans — a battle between what you so desperately want to believe can happen and what you think will really happen. It’s the gap between the naivete of youth and the realism of experience, played […]
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Many fertility patients in the UK are being offered unnecessary add-on treatments that have little or no proof of improving the likelihood of pregnancy, a report suggests. Add-ons are optional, non-essential treatments some private clinics offer in addition to proven treatments, such in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). According […]
UK inflation fell by more than expected in February, driven by a drop in the price of clothes and shoes. Inflation dropped to 2.8%, down from a rate of 3% in January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures come ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement, where she will set […]
The memories, joyful and painful, will endure. In Game 1 of last year’s World Series, Freddie Freeman hit the first walk-off grand slam in the 120-year history of the Fall Classic. The shot at Dodger Stadium immediately joined the list of indelible Series walk-offs — Joe Carter in 1993, Kirk Gibson in 1988, Bill Mazeroski […]
“Making It Work” is a series about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. Bird flu outbreaks that wiped out about 15 percent of the nation’s egg-laying chickens and drove wholesale egg prices to a peak of more than $8.50 a dozen in February have vexed grocery shoppers and prompted big breakfast chains to add […]
We’re only two weeks into the league new year and every NFL team has been deemed offseason champion, offseason chump or somewhere in between. But no one’s offseason to-do list is completely checked off in such little time. So, what is your team still missing? Is it a need that can be filled in the […]
The Trump administration on Tuesday added 80 companies and organizations to a list of companies that are barred from buying American technology and other exports because of national security concerns. The move, which targeted primarily Chinese firms, cracks down on companies that have been big buyers of American chips from Nvidia, Intel and AMD. It […]