Lucy Hooker Business reporter, BBC News PA Media Thames Water has launched an appeal to allow it to increase bills by more than the regulator wants to permit. The UK’s largest utility company is calling on the competition regulator to overturn a decision from the water industry regulator, Ofwat, which caps bill rises at 35% […]
Boys born in the UK in 2023 can expect to live on average to the age of 86.7, and girls to 90, latest data suggest. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says figures show a continued trend of longer life expectancy for men and women. The survival gap between the sexes is narrowing, partly down […]
Mahmoud Muna inside a branch of the Educational Bookshop chain in East Jerusalem in July 2024. Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images For Mahmoud and Murad Muna, East Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop is the backdrop of many of their earliest memories. “I crawled, walked and learned […]
McLaughlin family Danielle McLaughlin’s body was found in Goa in 2017 A man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of an Irish woman backpacking in India. Danielle McLaughlin, 28, from County Donegal, was found dead in a field in the western state of Goa in March 2017. Vikat Bhagat was found guilty […]
Qatar’s investment vehicles are cooling their interests in France, sources have told ESPN, including the majority owners of Paris Saint-Germain. The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) — the country’s sovereign wealth fund, which has an estimated €500 billion of assets — and PSG’s majority ownership group, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), have already slowed down their investments […]
Tom Espiner BBC business reporter Getty Images Parents could save up to £540 a year by switching from premium baby milk formula to a basic brand, a regulator has said following a probe into the market. Parents can feel guilty about using lower-priced brands, because they think they are somehow inferior, the Competition & Markets […]
Jude Sheerin BBC News Reporting fromWashington DC Watch: Trump and Modi say meeting will revolve around trade Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed a “mega partnership” between the US and India, as he and US leader Donald Trump wrapped up a meeting in which they announced a deal for Delhi to import more US […]
Louisiana’s top health official said in an internal memo to the state’s Health Department on Thursday that it would no longer use media campaigns or health fairs to promote vaccination against preventable illnesses. The official, Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, Louisiana’s surgeon general, wrote in the memo that the state would “encourage each patient to discuss […]
TikTok is again available on the US app stores of Apple and Google, after President Donald Trump postponed enforcement of a ban of the Chinese-owned social media platform until 5 April. The popular app, which is used by more than 170 million American users, went dark briefly last month in the US as the ban […]
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