Households in Medway struggling to meet the cost of living can claim a share of £4m. The cash is from the Household Support Fund, introduced in October 2021, which the government has decided to extend for another year. The money is shared out to local authorities to allocate, with Medway having £3,987,524 for the coming […]
HOUSTON — An Astros fan was relocated to different seats after ripping a baseball out of Mike Trout’s glove on a foul ball that went into the first row of the right-field seats. The play was eerily reminiscent of the infamous foul ball incident during Game 4 of the 2024 World Series, when a New […]
Officials are working to deliver essential raw materials to British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, the government has said, as it races to keep its blast furnaces burning. An emergency law rushed through Parliament on Saturday gave the government control of the Lincolnshire site to prevent its Chinese owner shutting it down. The government said work was […]
That might sound a little mushy — that the point of A.D.H.D. treatment is to help you build relationships and improve your self-esteem, rather than the more scientific-sounding goal of repairing your malfunctioning brain. But think back to that controversial statement in Martine Hoogman’s 2017 paper. She wrote that it was important to interpret the […]
With each passing decade, elite athletes seem to become faster, stronger and, dare we say it, better. Performance improves and, consequently, records tumble. But some records seem otherworldly. No matter what future technological or scientific advancements may be made, they feel out of reach and unbreakable. Although that is what many thought of Wayne Gretzky’s […]
BBC From the end of April, the 500-year-old Royal Mail will be controlled by a Czech billionaire who co-owns a football club and is a major investor in a British supermarket – so, why would he want this ailing institution? Listen to the audio version of this on BBC Sounds “A pair of scissors, one […]
A man chats on his phone at the booth for Huawei at the 21st China International Semiconductor Expo in Beijing, in November 2024. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption toggle caption Ng Han Guan/AP The Trump administration is considering new semiconductor tariffs, after the White House exempted certain electronics from reciprocal tariffs. “We are taking a […]
Cabot Creamery is voluntarily recalling more than 1,700 pounds of butter in seven states after testing found that the products had elevated levels of fecal bacteria, federal safety regulators said. Cabot, based in Waitsfield, Vt., is recalling 189 cases, or 1,701 pounds, of its eight-ounce, sea-salted Extra Creamy Premium Butter after it detected elevated levels […]
A day after President Trump capitulated on his global reciprocal tariffs, he and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insisted that one country after another was coming to them to make deals to avoid further economic pain. But the devil is in the details, and Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick offered very few. Instead, they said that […]
The head of the Catholic Church has appeared publicly for the second time since being discharged from hospital after a pneumonia diagnosis. Pope Francis has held an in-person greeting with the faithful in St Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday in yet another positive public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia. […]