Mar 25, 2025, 06:10 AM ET Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and France great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Tuesday, 2½ years after they were first acquitted of the offences. The pair, once among the most powerful figures in global football, were cleared of fraud at the […]
Americans are increasingly anxious about their jobs and finances as the Trump administration’s trade policies and government cutbacks stoke concern about the economy. Consumer confidence tumbled this month to its lowest level since January 2021, the Conference Board reported on Tuesday, extending a decline that has been underway since shortly after President Trump was elected […]
On July 1, 1970, one of the first independent abortion clinics in the country opened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. New York State had just reformed its laws, allowing a woman to terminate her pregnancy in the first trimester — or at any point, if her life was at risk. All of a […]
Huw Thomas Business Correspondent, BBC Wales News BBC AI chatbots can be useful to candidates but should never replace “human judgement”, a careers adviser says A growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in job applications risks employers hiring candidates who cannot do the work, a business owner has said. Advertising boss James Robinson said he […]
Tim Dodd Climate and science reporter Artist’s impression by Masato Hattori Duonychus tsogtbaatari would have been adept at grasping vegetation A rare new species of two-clawed dinosaur has been discovered by scientists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, was unique within a group of dinosaurs called Therizinosaurs, which stood on their hind […]
Jeffrey Goldberg may be one of the last journalists the Trump administration would want to inadvertently include on a private text thread discussing war plans. But according to Mr. Goldberg’s stunning revelation on Monday, that is exactly what happened. Mr. Goldberg, 59, was a well-known national security reporter before he took over as editor in […]
Chelsea will have to pay Manchester United a fee of £5 million ($6.5m) if they back out of the deal to sign Jadon Sancho permanently this summer, a source has told ESPN. Sancho is on loan at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have an obligation to make the move permanent for a fee of £25m if they […]
Ticketmaster “may have misled Oasis fans” with unclear pricing when it put their reunion tour on sale last year, the UK’s competition watchdog has said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the company may have breached consumer protection law by selling “platinum” tickets for almost 2.5 times the standard price, without explaining they came […]
A Signal leak By far the biggest story of the day is The Atlantic’s stunning revelation that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, discussed sensitive Yemen bombing plans with other senior Trump administration officials on a messaging app — in a group text that mistakenly included that publication’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. The incident has […]
Katy Prickett BBC News, Cambridgeshire Jozef Hall/BBC Staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital raised concerns about care provided by their colleague The care received by 800 patients at a world-renowned NHS hospital is to be reviewed by expert clinicians after a specialist surgeon was suspended. Last month, it was reported the orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, […]