Jacqueline Howard BBC News Reuters Thousands of Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee drivers are logging off during peak hours on Valentine’s Day in a campaign for better pay and working conditions, a union says. The strike action is taking place across the UK from 16:00 to 22:00 GMT. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain […]
Watch out for interest rates. Not the short-term rates controlled by the Federal Reserve. Barring an unforeseen financial crisis, they’re not going anywhere, especially not after the jump in inflation reported by the government on Wednesday. Instead, pay attention to the 10-year Treasury yield, which has been bouncing around since the election from about 4.8 […]
A specialist surgeon has been suspended from a world-renowned NHS hospital after children under their care were left with lasting injuries. A review was commissioned at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, after concerns were raised by the surgeon’s colleagues in October. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said an independent expert found operations involving nine children fell […]
Liverpool boss Arne Slot has admitted he regrets his behaviour that saw him sent off after the final whistle of Wednesday’s Merseyside derby, saying he would “do it differently” next time. Slot was dismissed by referee Michael Oliver at Goodison Park during a chaotic scene that saw four red cards handed out following a physical […]
United Voices of the World Julia Quecano Casimiro campaigns for better protections for migrant workers on UK farms The number of foreign workers seeking help over claims of exploitation, bullying, underpayment and poor living conditions on UK farms significantly increased last year, the BBC has learned. Nearly 700 foreign seasonal agricultural labourers complained to the […]
President Trump is pursuing a far more aggressive trade policy than he embraced in his first term, allowing his unfettered instincts about how to put America at the forefront to guide him with little pretense of investigations or extended deliberations. Since taking office, Mr. Trump has threatened tariffs on goods from potentially every global trading […]
Elon Musk’s growing power in government appears to be making some of his businesses more of a magnet for investors. Case in point: Banks have managed to sell off most of the $12.5 billion worth of debt owed by X, his social network, to eager buyers. Investors are essentially betting that the company’s future is […]
Eleanor Lawrie and Michael Buchanan Social affairs, BBC news Rachel Halliwell When 12-year-old Semina Halliwell was lying in hospital, she asked the consultant if she was going to die. Semina told him she had wanted “go to sleep for a couple of days”. She was placed in an induced coma but died soon after, on […]
When President Trump announced he would impose new tariffs on imports from countries around the world, he launched a frontal attack on the global free trade system created in the aftermath of World War II. Mr. Trump’s move, announced Thursday and set to begin as soon as April, represents a bet that the United States […]
Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet picks, has been sworn in as the next US Health and Human Services Secretary. The former presidential candidate will now oversee key health agencies with about 80,000 employees and a trillion-dollar budget. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had questioned his baseless […]