‘Freedom Day’ sets London clubbers free to dance the night away
London clubbers on Monday flocked to one of the first rule-free live music events since the pandemic began last year, dancing through the night and rejoicing in human interaction as ...
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Binance ditches ‘stock tokens’ as global crackdown widens
Binance said on Friday it had stopped selling digital tokens linked to shares, as Hong Kong’s financial watchdog became the latest in a string of regulators to crack down ...
Sterling is weak on Freedom Day as Covid-19 cases surge
It’s Freedom Day in the UK, meaning that pandemic-related restrictions are gone, but Covid-19 cases in England are now the third-highest number in the world behind only Indonesia and ...
Sustainable investments account for about one third of global assets
Sustainable investments total $35.3 trillion, or more than a third of all assets in five of the world’s biggest markets, a report from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance on Monday ...
Ice cool Morikawa wins Open Championship
American debutant Collin Morikawa produced an ice-cool final round to win the British Open by two strokes on a blazing hot afternoon at Royal St George’s on Sunday.
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Hamilton takes controversial eighth home British GP win
Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for a record-extending eighth time on Sunday despite a 10-second penalty for a controversial first lap collision that sent Red Bull rival ...
U.S. surgeon general defends CDC mask change, blames tech companies for Covid deaths
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stood by federal guidance that those fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer needed to wear masks, while blaming social media companies for fueling vaccine ...
‘It’s terrifying’: Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe (Updated)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the flooding that has devastated parts of Europe as “terrifying” on Sunday after the death toll across the region rose to 188 and a district of ...
Bezos and crewmates prepare for inaugural Blue Origin space flight
Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos and his three crewmates are engaging in a crash course of training on Sunday in preparation for his company Blue Origin’s inaugural flight to ...
Turkey condemns EU court ruling on headscarf ban as violation of freedoms
Turkey on Sunday slammed a ruling by a top European Union court allowing the banning of headscarves under certain conditions as a “clear violation of religious freedoms”, adding the move ...
Mykonos, Greece’s famed party island, falls silent under music ban
There was no music and no dancing on Greece’s famed party island Mykonos on Sunday as new rules to contain the spread of COVID-19 pushed tourists to cancel holidays ...
Johnson reverses plan to skip quarantine after Covid exposure (Updated)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and finance minister Rishi Sunak will both self-isolate in line with national guidance, abandoning heavily criticised plans to take part in a pilot scheme that ...
Spike Lee jumps gun at Cannes with ‘Titane’ Palme d’Or reveal
“Titane”, a wildly imaginative film about a serial killer by French director Julia Ducournau, won the top Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday – as revealed ...
Syria’s Assad says $60bn frozen in Lebanon’s banks; 80% of Syrians below poverty line
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the main impediment to investment in the country was money stuck in ailing Lebanese banks.
In a speech after being sworn in as ...
Cryptocurrencies boom in Pakistan sees regulation
Once a week Ghulam Ahmed, 38, takes time out from his cryptocurrency consulting business to log into a WhatsApp group with hundreds of members eager to learn how to mine and ...
All adults in Britain offered jab ahead of Monday reopening
Every adult in the United Kingdom has been offered a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Sunday, ahead of the end of legal restrictions in England ...
Death toll rises to 168 in Germany and Belgium floods (Updated)
By Petra Wischgoll and David Sahl
The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 168 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this ...
Verstappen takes British Grand Prix pole with F1 sprint win
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won Formula One‘s first Saturday sprint race to secure pole position for the British Grand Prix and extend his championship lead over Lewis Hamilton ...
Biden promises to appeal immigration ruling, urges Congress to act
President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the Justice Department will appeal a “deeply disappointing” ruling by a federal judge in Texas on a program that protects from deportation certain ...
UK health minister Javid tests positive for Covid-19
British health minister Sajid Javid on Saturday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, but that his symptoms were mild and he had had two doses of vaccine against the ...
Engine failure forced Russian plane to make hard landing, investigators say
Russian investigators said on Saturday engine failure had caused a small passenger plane to make a forced landing in Siberia a day earlier, flipping the aircraft upside down but causing ...
British drivers feel the force of the fans at Silverstone
Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris and George Russell felt the force of the fans and were fired up by the energy bursting from the grandstands at their home British Formula One ...
Younger shoppers drive Burberry sales rebound
Burberry (BRBY.L), the British brand seeking to replace departing boss Marco Gobbetti, said its like-for-like sales had risen above pre-pandemic levels, driven by new, younger customers and demand for ...
UK to keep quarantine rules for travellers from France
Britain said on Friday that it was scrapping a planned easing of coronavirus rules for travellers from France, which had been due to take effect on Monday, because of the ...