Ben Chu & Lucy Gilder BBC Verify Reuters The fate of the Scunthorpe steel works has shone a fresh spotlight on Chinese investment in the UK economy with critics raising questions over potential security risks. The British Steel plant had been owned by China’s Jingye Steel. But the UK government has now taken control of […]
At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty. At the Mine Safety and Health Administration, powerful lobbying groups have asked the administration to eliminate a rule to protect miners from inhaling the dust of crystalline […]
Maddy Savage BBC News, Helsinki Maria 01 Maria 01 plans to become the biggest start-up campus in Europe Yellow diggers are shoring up mounds of earth, as construction workers prepare to lay the foundations for what’s set to become the largest start-up campus in Europe. The project is an expansion of Maria 01, a co-working […]
Alfie Tobutt BBC World Service Getty Images The sandstorm blanketed parts of southern Iraq in an orange haze More than a thousand people have been left with respiratory problems after a sandstorm swept across Iraq’s central and southern parts of the country, health officials said. One official in Muthanna province reported to the AFP news […]
Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s last functional hospitals turns treatable conditions into death sentences. Patients in Gaza are dying of treatable wounds and illnesses due to Israeli attacks and its aid blockade. Israel bombed one of the last working hospitals in Gaza on Sunday, meaning more Palestinians with routine health conditions might now face death. Targeting […]
British Steel’s blast furnaces are set to continue running with a delivery of enough raw materials to keep them alight for the “coming weeks” due on Tuesday, the government has said. Coking coal and iron ore from the US will be unloaded at Immingham docks and transported to the Scunthorpe site after a scramble for […]
The White House is planning to ask Congress to claw back more than $1 billion slated for public broadcasting in the United States, according to two people briefed on the plan, a move that could ultimately eliminate almost all federal support for Newsportu and PBS. The plan is to request that Congress rescind $1.1 billion […]
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Apr 14, 2025, 01:20 PM ET Barcelona goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny said on Monday he will accept being dropped for Marc-André ter Stegen if that is what coach Hansi Flick decides when the Germany international returns to full fitness. Szczesny, 34, came out of retirement to sign for Barça last October when […]
The world number 35, who turned professional in 2019, had never previously made a single maximum break in his career. Monday’s win has earned him a place in the final round of qualifiers. Page reached the tournament proper for the first time in 2022 and caused an upset by beating former finallist Barry Hawkins 10-7 […]
Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News Reporting fromWindsor, Ontario Ali Abbas Ahmadi/BBC Ford workers Kathryn Lawton (L) and Christina Grossi are afraid the tariffs could upend their lives For more than a century, a member of the Lawton family has worked in Canada’s car industry. Kathryn Lawton and husband Chad both work for the carmaker in […]