The government is investigating 37 UK-linked businesses for potentially breaking Russian oil sanctions – but no fines have been handed out so far, the BBC can reveal. Financial sanctions on Russia were introduced by the UK and other Western countries following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Conservative shadow foreign office minister Dame Harriett Baldwin […]
Ethel Kennedy poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22, 2012, in Park City, Utah. The Kennedy matriarch died Thursday at age 96. Victoria Will/AP hide caption toggle caption Victoria Will/AP BOSTON, Mass. — Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who raised their 11 children after he […]
PRAGUE — The NHL opened its regular season in Prague last week with two Global Series games between the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils. Czech hockey legends were prominently featured. Jaromir Jagr dropped the ceremonial first puck ahead of the game on Friday. Patrik Eliáš, the Devils’ all-time leading scorer, was around the team […]
Getty Images Millions of people will be able to get statutory sick pay from the first day they are ill and claim unpaid parental leave from day one, under a planned overhaul of workers’ rights. However, certain measures in the Employment Rights Bill have been criticised for being watered down or delayed. Most of the […]
UK pharmaceutical giant GSK says it will pay as much as $2.2bn (£1.68bn) to settle thousands of cases in US courts over claims that a discontinued version of its heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer. The firm announced that it had reached agreements with 10 law firms who represent around 80,000 claimants. The settlements account for […]
New Delhi, India – When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inaugurating a controversial Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya on January 22 this year, J*, a student living hundreds of miles away in the southern state of Kerala was about to post his take on the event on Instagram. “Remains of Indian […]
“We’re particularly excited about, not just the opportunity here in Abu Dhabi, but the Gulf region generally,” Silver told reporters in the capital ahead of Friday’s tip-off. “We have a long history in this market, games have been televised for roughly 35 years. “The game is probably 100-years old here in the Middle East… Today, […]
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 […]