Getty Images Tens of thousands of dockworkers have gone on strike indefinitely at ports across much of the US, threatening significant trade and economic disruption ahead of the presidential election and the busy holiday shopping season. Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) walked out on Tuesday at 14 major ports along the east and […]
BBC Annabel Ashmore was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at the age of four The family of a young girl with cancer say they face a race against time to get her potentially life-saving care abroad. Annabel Ashmore, from Gateshead, needs to start a two-year drug treatment by November to reduce the risk of her […]
At least 15 people have died in Mexico as a result of Hurricane John, the country’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has confirmed. The storm first made landfall a week ago as a category three hurricane on Mexico’s Pacific coast, south-east of the resort of Acapulco. It then weakened and dissipated over the mountains of […]
Hilsa is Bangladesh’s national fish. Locally known as ilish, it is cherished as the queen among fish and forms part of the culinary identity of both Bangladesh and the bordering Indian state of West Bengal. Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina used the fish – which is found in the Bay of Bengal and in […]
There needs to be an independent review of physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) in England, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says. The group, which brings together leading doctors and surgeons, has been broadly supportive of the rollout of these roles which assist health care teams. But it said given the “increasingly acrimonious […]
Hunt claims economy, and government’s fiscal position, much better than Labour says Jeremy Hunt, the shadow chancellor, is speaking at the conference hall now. He is being interviewed by Daniel Finkelstein, the Times columnist and Tory peer. Hunt says Rachel Reeves’ claim that the Tories left the worst economic inheritance since the war is one […]
A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, docked at 17:30 eastern time (22:30 BST). The pair arrived at the station on Boeing’s new Starliner capsule for an eight-day mission in […]
The region braces for further attacks after Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. Hezbollah is still reeling from the killing of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. As the group mourns his death and weighs its options, Israel has carried out more strikes, killing another of Hezbollah’s top leaders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
A zookeeper has been mauled to death by a lion in south-western Nigeria after he failed to secure the locks on its enclosure when he went to feed it, police say. The victim, a 35-year-old man, worked at the Presidential Library Wildlife Park, owned by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun […]
Sport360 spoke with Joe Dumars, the NBA’s Executive Vice President and Head of Basketball Operations, to talk about the significance of these games, the NBA’s growing presence in the UAE, and the future of basketball in the region. Q. What excites you about the NBA’s growing presence in the UAE? Any time you go into […]