Former Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been jailed after his dog bit a runner. The 32-year-old’s black cane corso attacked Robert Sudell in September 2022 in Swanley in Kent. He was charged over a second incident where the same dog, named Elvis, was out of control in Grays, Essex, in June. Fincham, of Swanley, […]
The Pentagon has revoked the security detail and clearance for Gen Mark Milley, a former US general who has been critical of US President Donald Trump. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the move as one of his first acts in office, asking officials to investigate Gen Milley’s “conduct” and review his military grade. Gen Milley […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House next week. Netanyahu’s office said the visit would take place on 4 February and that he was the first foreign leader to be invited to the White House during Trump’s second term. A White House official confirmed there would be […]
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News x/@petrogustavo Colombian President Gustavo Petro published a photo of himself on board the plane on social media Two Colombian air force planes sent to the US to fetch deported migrants have landed in the capital, Bogotá. The migrants had been on US military flights headed for Colombia on Sunday, when Colombian […]
PA Media Rachel Reeves has set out a series of major announcements on infrastructure projects, including backing plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport. She promised to go “further and faster” than previous governments after years of sluggish growth in the UK. So what did she announce? Heathrow expansion Reeves confirmed the government is […]
Rachel Reeves’s first few months as Britain’s top finance official has been marked by a steady drumbeat of bad news: a “black hole” in the public finances, higher taxes and low growth. On Wednesday, Ms. Reeves sought to change Britain’s prospects by laying out plans to boost the economy, including supporting another runway at Heathrow […]
Much of the world is accustomed to thinking of Africa as an impoverished sideshow, accounting for only a small share of the world’s population and G.D.P. — but what if that is poised to change? Experts at the International Monetary Fund have argued that we are entering the “African century.” I wouldn’t go that far, […]
Lloyds Banking Group is to shut another 136 branches by March next year, arguing that customers are increasingly using digital channels for their day-to-day banking. It is the latest in a string of branch closures, with the bank – and its rivals – already working through previously announced closure plans. The latest announcement will see […]
The “Fork in the Road” subject line sent from an email on Tuesday to millions of federal employees may have been puzzling at first. The message from the Office of Personnel Management was essentially a pink-slip notice: It offered a choice of returning to the office full-time, accepting a buyout offer or risk being furloughed […]
The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing H.I.V. medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. The directive is part of a broader freeze on foreign aid initiated last week. It includes the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, […]