According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, external, there were 16 deaths as a result of dog attacks in the first nine months of 2023, compared to six in the whole of 2022. However, official figures do not break down the number of attacks or deaths by type of dog. When […]
Wales manager Rob Page has told captain Aaron Ramsey to concentrate on getting ready for the rigours of another Championship season with Cardiff City. Ramsey, 33, had an injury hit campaign for club and country following his return to the Bluebirds last summer. And after Wales’ Euro 2024 exit in the play-off final penalty shoot […]
Evan Vucci/Associated Press Evan Vucci/Associated Press Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden’s latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that former President Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Folks, he’s coming for your health care, and […]
Yesterday Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, forgot one of Labour’s new six pledges in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. Sarah Jones, a shadow business minister, did not make the same mistake this morning, but in an interview with Talk TV she got the detail of one of them wrong, claiming Labour was […]
Sixty years ago, baseball commissioner Ford Frick received a telegram from a Wisconsin congressman. Rep. Henry Reuss was worried the Milwaukee Braves would defect to Atlanta for the promise of a richer television contract, and proposed a fix: if all the Major League Baseball teams would share their television money, then the Braves might stay. […]
The water company that supplies clean water and removes waste for a quarter of the UK is, quite simply, drowning in debt. When the company was privatised in 1989, it had no debt. But over the years it borrowed heavily and is currently £15.4bn in debt. A large proportion of that was added when Macquarie, […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng Motors (NYSE: XPEV) is looking to deliver flying cars in 2026. The company’s core EV business meanwhile has sagged in 2024 and it delivered fewer than 10,000 […]
Certain Democrats trying to cope with President Biden’s continually underwhelming 2024 poll numbers share an article of faith: the ceiling theory. All Biden needs to do is rally allies who are unenthusiastic about him — particularly young, Black and Hispanic voters — against Donald Trump. The former president’s ceiling, after all, has proved to be […]
Fujitsu, the company that built the flawed Horizon IT system, sacked a top boss at the height of the scandal. Rod Vawdrey, 67, was dismissed as Fujitsu’s global president in 2014 for personal conduct issues, former colleagues say. He returned to his native Australia, where he is now being sued for his involvement in a […]
There has been a surge in demand for hepatitis C tests since the BBC revealed that hundreds of people in the UK were unknowingly infected with the virus, the Hepatitis C Trust says. Up to 27,000 people caught it when they were given transfusions with infected blood from the 1970s until 1991. According to BBC […]