Chaos surrounded us. Informal porters rolling luggage carts zigzagged between cars. Commuters spilled from the bus terminal onto the sidewalk, where they sat on suitcases and duffel bags. Minibus taxis zoomed through the congestion, pedestrians be damned. Our car crawled past a barbed-wire fence and reached a sliding gate, where all that separated my wife […]
Greig Watson BBC News, Nottingham PA Media Maternity services at the trust are at the centre of the largest inquiry of its kind in the NHS The healthcare watchdog has apologised over delays to the publication of its report into maternity services in Nottingham, which is subject of the largest inquiry of its kind in […]
Mar 25, 2025, 08:08 PM ET Bayern Munich are hoping for Mathys Tel’s departure as they look at Viktor Gyökeres and Nico Williams, while West Ham United are ahead of Tottenham Hotspur in their efforts to sign Chris Rigg. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage […]
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, installing a contrarian who has pledged to reform scientific funding practices as the leader of the world’s premier medical research agency. Dr. Bhattacharya’s confirmation — by a party-line vote of 53 to 47 — comes as the N.I.H., with […]
Joshua Nevett & Michael Race Political reporter & Business reporter Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to confirm a £2.2bn increase in defence spending in her Spring Statement, with details of previously announced welfare cuts also to be revealed. She will argue the UK has to “move quickly in a changing world” amid uncertainty surrounding […]
Frank Bisignano, the Wall Street veteran being considered to lead the Social Security Administration, will go before the Senate on Tuesday morning, where lawmakers will demand answers about his plans for an agency recently thrown into tumult. The plans being laid by the Trump administration for the typically staid agency — long viewed as a […]
Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary. Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of […]
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 […]