More than £2m has been made available for families struggling in the cost-of-living crisis. People struggling to pay for energy and other essentials are being encouraged to check if they are eligible before applying to Herefordshire Council for a share of the fund. The authority said the government had provided £2.3m. Residents could use the […]
Manchester United striker Rasmus Højlund said he does not like the narrative that a Europa League triumph would “rescue” the club’s torrid campaign. United face Lyon in a crucial Europa League quarterfinal first leg on Thursday — a must-win tie where failure would mean missing out on Champions League football next season and triggering a […]
The human brain is so complex that scientific brains have a hard time making sense of it. A piece of neural tissue the size of a grain of sand might be packed with hundreds of thousands of cells linked together by miles of wiring. In 1979, Francis Crick, the Nobel-prize-winning scientist, concluded that the anatomy […]
It’s started. At 12.01am EST (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” trade tariffs kicked in. And no country has been hit worse than China, which now effectively faces a 104 percent levy on the goods it sells to the US. Even as Washington moved to start negotiations with other trading partners […]
Beijing on Wednesday aimed the latest blow in the escalating trade war between the United States and Washington, with plans to raise new tariffs on all American imports by 84 percent within hours. China’s Ministry of Finance announced that it would match a 50 percent tariff on all imports from China that President Trump announced […]
India’s central bank has cut interest rates by 0.25% amid a spate of downgrades to growth following Donald Trump’s tariff announcements. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced repo rates from 6.25% to 6%, a second cut since February when rates were brought down after nearly five years. The repo rate is the level at […]
Millions of small investors have piled into India’s stock market in recent years, eager to build wealth by betting on the country’s economic growth. Catchy advertising and easy-to-open online trading accounts have wooed young people and retirees alike, demystifying investing and fueling the exuberance. This week, many of those investors got a rude shock — […]
Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Getty Images Trump’s tariffs are a blow for countries like Vietnam that rely heavily on exports US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs targeting most of the world are now in effect – and outside China, no other region has been hit as hard as South East Asia. Near the […]
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Finance on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 6, in Washington. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP President Trump’s escalating tariffs on trading partners has not only rattled U.S. and international markets – it’s also set off alarm bells in Congress. In […]
Concerns are growing that British Steel could run out of raw materials within days for its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe. The government is considering nationalising the company, which has said its two main furnaces are “no longer financially sustainable”, prompting fears the some 2,700 jobs could be lost. Simon Boyd, managing director of REIDsteel, a […]