Is Elon Musk planning to use artificial intelligence to run the US government? That seems to be his plan, but experts say it is a “very bad idea”. Musk has fired tens of thousands of federal government employees through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and he reportedly requires the remaining workers to send the […]
Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have accused the Covid inquiry of an “establishment cover-up” after their second attempt to be given an official role in the inquiry was rejected. The couple claimed they were the targets of a “politically motivated witch hunt” after the inquiry’s chairwoman, Baroness Hallett, refused their application to be […]
Wall Street’s slide resumed on Thursday, another anxiety-induced drop that left the S&P 500 on the verge of closing in a “correction” — a symbolic marker of the speed at which investors have fled the stock market in recent weeks. Traders, economists and business leaders have been grappling with a rapidly shifting economic landscape as […]
Reuters The rise is attributed to increasing scepticism about immunisation The number of measles cases in the European region doubled last year to reach the highest level in 25 years, health officials say. A joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN children’s fund, Unicef, said children under the age of five […]
Nick Triggle Health correspondent Helen Catt Political correspondent PA Media The government has announced NHS England will be abolished to “cut bureaucracy” and reform how the National Health Service is run. The changes will not impact anyone’s access to the NHS – but Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it would bring management of the […]
Faarea Masud and Natalie Sherman Business reporters, BBC News Getty Images US President Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on any alcohol coming to the US from the EU in the latest twist in an escalating trade war. Trump made the threat in response to the EU’s plans for a levy on US-produced whiskey […]
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov attends a meeting of the presidents of Russia and Belarus at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday. Maxim Shemetov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Maxim Shemetov/AFP via Getty Images As U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff enters talks with Russian officials in Moscow on a Trump administration proposal Ukraine has […]
Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite communications company, fought behind the scenes for months to break into India’s internet business. The market is dominated by two local giants, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, which seemed united in trying to keep Starlink out. Then, suddenly, this week each of them announced a partnership to bring Starlink into India, […]
Jalen Brunson first experienced the fervor of the N.B.A.’s biggest international market in 2018 when, as a rookie, he traveled with the Dallas Mavericks to China for a pair of preseason games. The trip itself was brief, but the reception that Mr. Brunson and his teammates received left a lasting impression. “The fandom that basketball […]
UN experts say Israel ‘intentionally attacked and destroyed’ the Palestinian territory’s main fertility centre. Israel has carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts have said. On Thursday, the Geneva-based Independent International Commission of Inquiry […]