A palm tree next to the beach before Hurricane Milton’s arrival on Wednesday, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Viral rumors and conspiracy theories have made it more challenging for federal and state officials to share information about the storm and evacuation plans. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images With a second […]
PA Media The outgoing chief executive of the Post Office has said he was told “not to dig into” details of the Horizon scandal when he joined the business in 2019. Nick Read, who is beginning three days of evidence at an inquiry, was brought into the business to try to turn it around following […]
PA Media Lily Ebert, who was sent to Auschwitz during World War Two, died on Wednesday A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose story became famous as she searched for the family of a soldier who saved her, has died. Hungarian-born Lily Ebert, who lived in north-west London, was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 with her family […]
Cardiff endometriosis patient wants condition treated more urgently Lara Stevens says endometriosis is like the cancer she had as a child, with the potential to spread and damage multiple organs – but feels it is not treated with the required urgency. “The endometriosis could be growing and I wouldn’t know where it is and what […]
Vice President Harris talks to hosts of ABC’s The View during a commercial break on Oct. 8. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Harris on Tuesday laid out a proposal to expand Medicare coverage to help cover the costs of home health care aides for […]
Getty Images People waiting for an Uber should be patient enough to wait a few minutes longer for an electric car, the boss of the ride-hailing firm has said. “A couple of minutes isn’t going to kill anyone,” Dara Khosrowshahi told the BBC in an interview. Uber is rolling out new options to encourage customers […]
The average UK house price came close to reaching a record high last month as falling mortgage rates helped to boost confidence among buyers, according to Halifax. The UK’s largest mortgage lender said the average price hit £293,399 in September, just short of the record £293,507 reached in June 2022. Prices have now risen for […]
Scotland’s health boards have paid up to £837 an hour for locum psychiatrists to help cope with a deepening staff shortage crisis in mental health services. They have been charged more than £130m by dozens of private health care companies to provide temporary psychiatrists over the past five years, including one firm now owned by […]
Reports of antisemitic incidents in the US have reached a record high since last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, according to a preliminary report from the Anti-Defamation League Center for Extremism (ADL). The group found more than 10,000 incidents from 7 October 2023 to 24 September of this year, more than a 200% increase compared […]
A policewoman has been killed and 10 others injured in a shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, local authorities said. The gunman was shot dead at the scene after what police described as a “suspected terror attack” at the city’s central bus station. The victim has been named as Shira Chaya Suslik, 19, […]