Kate Whannel Political reporter EPA The UK is “not choosing between the US and the EU”, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said after President Donald Trump threatened the European Union with trade tariffs. Over the weekend, Trump announced 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and said he would take similar action against the EU […]
Meleri Williams BBC News Reporting fromSwansea Crown Court Watch the moment 14-year-old girl stabs teachers A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil has been found guilty of attempted murder. Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and the pupil were hospitalised after the attack at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, Carmarthenshire, in April last year. The girl […]
Mr. Trump’s orders purged more than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites. In some cases, the executive orders also targeted the work of private citizens. A memo to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which publishes papers from both government and academic researchers, gave employees until 5 p.m. […]
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Feb 3, 2025, 06:40 AM ET Sergio Ramos is due to undergo a medical in Madrid on Monday before completing a move to Mexico’s Monterrey, sources have told ESPN. The former Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and Sevilla defender, 38, signed a pre-contract agreement on Sunday, sources said, after Monterrey executives travelled […]
Sex Matters Sandie Peggie was suspended after a row over changing rooms A Fife nurse who was suspended after complaining about sharing a changing room with a transgender colleague has begun giving evidence at an employment tribunal. Sandie Peggie claims being made to get changed beside Dr Beth Upton – who is a trans woman […]
In early February 2020, China locked down more than 50 million people, hoping to hinder the spread of a new coronavirus. No one knew at the time exactly how it was spreading, but Lidia Morawska, an expert on air quality at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, did not like the clues she managed to […]
When the president of the Spanish Football Federation kissed one of his national team’s players after they had won the 2023 Women’s World Cup, it was a moment that stunned the wider world. For the Spain forward Jenni Hermoso and her team-mates, that win should have been the highlight of their sporting lives. Spain had […]
Evan Williams did not want to start another start-up. He had already enjoyed the kind of rare, unfathomable success most entrepreneurs only dream of, starting tech companies that made products used by millions — the early blogging site Blogger, the social media giant Twitter, the publishing platform Medium. Along the way, Mr. Williams had grappled […]
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA trade deadline. You know a trade is a historic blockbuster — and completely out of nowhere — when everybody assumes the initial report was because of internet hacking and tomfoolery at its most devious. But all of the headlines and text messages you received about this […]
Tom Bateman State Department correspondent in Panama Reuters US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, was greeted by Panamanian foreign minister Javier Martinez-Acha on his arrival in Panama City US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has demanded that Panama make “immediate changes” to what he calls the “influence and control” of China over the Panama […]