UK’s travel sector facing new wave of job cuts, industry body warns
Britain’s travel sector is bracing for a new wave of job cuts, with an industry trade body saying that more than two thirds of its members were planning to ...
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Putin meets Assad, takes swipe at US and Turkish forces in Syria
President Vladimir Putin received Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Moscow for the first time since 2015 on Monday and criticised foreign forces that are in Syria without a U.N. mandate, ...
Banks expect London to remain a top financial centre, says survey
London will remain a leading global financial centre despite uncertainty over regulation due to Brexit, Lloyds Bank’s annual sentiment survey of financial firms showed on Monday.
Britain fully left ...
UK employers, stung by new levies, call for overhaul of tax system
British businesses demanded that finance minister Rishi Sunak stop raising their taxes and instead offer more help to meet the challenges of Brexit, COVID-19 and climate change when he makes ...
Nicholas strengthens into hurricane, pounds coastal Texas, Louisiana with rain
Heavy rains fell across the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as tropical storm Nicholas strengthened into a hurricane and spun toward land, bringing the threat of widespread ...
Delta spreads in China, new cases ease in New Zealand, Australia
New local COVID-19 infections more than doubled in China’s southeastern province of Fujian, health authorities said on Tuesday, prompting officials to quickly roll out measures including travel restrictions to ...
Everton hit back in style to beat Burnley
Everton struck three times in seven minutes in the second half as they came from a goal down to beat Burnley 3-1 and move level on points with Premier League ...
Coronavirus: More than 50% of adults vaccinated in north
Close to 56 per cent of the adult population in the north have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, with 53.1 per cent having both shots, it was announced ...
Prince Andrew to challenge jurisdiction over accuser’s lawsuit in New York
By Jonathan Stempel
Britain’s Prince Andrew plans to challenge a U.S. court’s jurisdiction over a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her ...
Disgruntled China Evergrande investors crowd headquarters in protest
Chaotic scenes erupted at the headquarters of cash-strapped developer China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) on Monday, as roughly 100 disgruntled investors crowded its lobby to demand repayment of loans and financial products.
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UN seeks $600 million for Afghanistan’s ‘most perilous hour’
The United Nations urged the world on Monday to raise $606 million for Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger are spiralling since the Taliban took power, and foreign aid has dried up ...
Wealthy dads become first to go on trial in US college admissions scandal
Two businessmen sought to use their wealth to fraudulently secure spots for their children at elite U.S. universities, a federal prosecutor said on Monday at the start of the ...
Busquets urges Barca to move on from Messi exit as Bayern await
Barcelona are still digesting the shock of losing Lionel Messi but are not yet counting out the chance of an unlikely tilt for the Champions League, captain Sergio Busquets said ...
Britain’s top medics recommend 12 to 15-year-olds get Covid vaccine
Britain‘s top medical advisers on Monday recommended that all 12 to 15-year-olds receive a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, citing the benefit on avoiding disruption to education after a ...
Passengers down 71 per cent at Heathrow, asks for changes to travel rules
Britain’s biggest airport Heathrow said on Monday passenger numbers were still 71 per cent lower in August compared to the same month before the COVID-19 pandemic, as it demanded that ...
Pope laments Europe’s fractures between individual rights and common good
Pope Francis warned against too much focus on individual rights and culture wars at the expense of the common good on Monday during a visit to Slovakia amid increased nationalism ...
Turkish factory output and current account disappoint
Turkish industrial output rose 8.7 per cent annually in July, much less than forecast after a recent strong rebound, while the current account deficit was wider than expected, data showed on ...
Smart cars, not e-cars, are ‘gamechanger’
Volkswagen head Herbert Diess on Sunday said autonomous cars, not electric vehicles, were the “real gamechanger” for the auto industry, which is facing the end of combustion engines in Europe ...
Hamilton says halo saved his life in horror crash
Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton credited the halo device for saving his life in a crash during Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix.
Hamilton was jockeying for position with rival Max ...
Early cancer detection test could be a game-changer
The National Health Service will on Monday begin the world’s biggest trial of Grail Inc’s flagship Galleri blood test that can be used to detect more than 50 types ...
New Zealand keeps Auckland in strict lockdown
New Zealand extended a strict lockdown in its largest city on Monday, requiring 1.7 million people living in Auckland to remain indoors for at least another week to snuff out small ...
US Treasury, financial industry discuss cryptocurrency ‘stablecoins’
The US Treasury Department met with a number of industry participants this week to quiz them about the risks and benefits posed by stablecoins — a rapidly growing type of cryptocurrencies, ...
N.Korea tests first ‘strategic’ cruise missile with possible nuclear capability
North Korea carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state media said on Monday, seen by analysts as possibly the country’s first such ...
EU okays Alitalia successor and says it’s not liable for illegal aid
EU competition regulators on Friday gave the green light to a slimmed down successor to Alitalia and said the new state-owned airline was not liable for repaying 900 million euros ($1.1 billion) ...