It’s one Lego kit, a collection of small plastic bricks and related accessories. What could it cost? The answer, it turns out, could be thousands of dollars. Lego kits and minifigures, figurines that are a little over 1.5 inches tall, are commanding high prices on the secondary market, with some, like the LEGO San Diego […]
British Steel’s blast furnaces are set to continue running with a delivery of enough raw materials to keep them alight for the “coming weeks” due on Tuesday, the government has said. Coking coal and iron ore from the US will be unloaded at Immingham docks and transported to the Scunthorpe site after a scramble for […]
The White House is planning to ask Congress to claw back more than $1 billion slated for public broadcasting in the United States, according to two people briefed on the plan, a move that could ultimately eliminate almost all federal support for Newsportu and PBS. The plan is to request that Congress rescind $1.1 billion […]
Bethan Lewis Education & Family Correspondent, BBC Wales News BBC Katie Bromley, a mum of three, says the cost of childcare means she is not able to return to work Families in Wales are being “punished” by childcare bills for under-twos that are more than double the average of those in England, Oxfam Cymru has […]
The U.S. dollar extended its slide against other major currencies on Monday, the latest sign that investors may be starting to shun what has long been the safest haven in global financial markets. An index that tracks the dollar against a basket of major trading partners fell for a fifth straight day, even as U.S. […]
The world number 35, who turned professional in 2019, had never previously made a single maximum break in his career. Monday’s win has earned him a place in the final round of qualifiers. Page reached the tournament proper for the first time in 2022 and caused an upset by beating former finallist Barry Hawkins 10-7 […]
President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Monday that he was not inclined to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran […]
The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry made a brief trip into space on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It was the first time an all-female crew had been to space since 1963. Their flight, on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, lasted 10 minutes and […]
In 2012, when Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he had lost his marbles. “A billion dollars of money?” joked Jon Stewart, then the host of “The Daily Show.” “For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures?” Mr. Stewart called the […]
Goldman Sachs on Monday revealed its latest financial results and outlook for the future, and in a deft feat of linguistics, its executives managed not to utter the word “tariff” once. Instead, in an hourlong call with analysts, David M. Solomon, the bank’s chief executive, unfurled a bouquet of euphemisms, saying that there had been […]