The UK is “closing in on” striking an agreement in principle with New Zealand, the international trade secretary has said. Liz Truss said “great progress” had been made in the sixth round of discussions between the two sides, which took place from 19 to 30 July. “We’re closing in on an agreement in principle, with
Donald Trump’s tax returns must be given to congressional investigators by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US Justice Department has said. In a memo on Friday, the department’s Office of Legal Counsel said the Treasury should provide the House Ways and Means Committee with the former Republican president’s tax details. The move could bring
Matt Damon’s new film, Stillwater, sees him playing the father of an American student who is in prison in Europe for murdering her flatmate. It sounds familiar because it is loosely based on the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in 2007 and the subsequent imprisonment of Amanda Knox. Ms Knox and
Ben Stokes has announced he is to take an “indefinite” break from cricket to ”prioritise his mental well-being”. The England all-rounder will initially miss the upcoming Test series against India. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said it fully supported his decision. Managing director of England Men’s Cricket, Ashley Giles, said: “Ben has shown tremendous
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Audio recordings from 9/11 include chilling words from the lead hijacker as the attacks were in progress.
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Infrastructure stocks took off late this week as a bill backed by President Joe Biden cleared another key hurdle. Late Wednesday, the Senate voted to advance the infrastructure bill, which includes $550 billion in new spending for such projects as moving the country to clean energy reliance, building roads and rails and expanding internet access.
In this article AMZN The Amazon logo displayed on a smartphone and a PC screen. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Amazon has been issued with a fine of 746 million euros ($887 million) by the European Union for breaching the bloc’s data protection laws. The fine, disclosed by Amazon on Friday
A crew member from the UK was among two workers killed in an attack on an oil tanker off Oman, the firm managing the vessel has said. Zodiac Maritime said the incident, which it said was “suspected piracy”, had also resulted in the death of a crew member from Romania. “We are not aware of
Peter Kay fans have clamoured for tickets to see his return to the stage – selling the shows out in 30 minutes. The Bolton funnyman, who has been all but absent from the public eye over the last few years, will make his stage comeback next month when he hosts two live Q&As in Manchester.
The Liberal Democrats are campaigning for parliament to be recalled from summer recess to debate proposals to introduce the use of vaccine passports. The party’s leader Sir Ed Davey has written a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson accusing his government of “committing to vaccine passports by stealth” which he warned was “a recipe for
Up to a quarter of supermarket milk deliveries by the UK’s biggest dairy supplier have been unable to get through because of a shortage of lorry drivers. Speaking to Sky News, managing director of Arla Foods UK Ash Amirahmadi warned of a “summer of disruption” unless bold action is taken by the government to tackle
Human remains found in the search for a missing British hiker have been confirmed as being hers, a charity says. Esther Dingley, 37, was last seen walking alone in the Pyrenees mountains near the French-Spanish border on 22 November last year. A bone found in the mountain range last week was DNA tested and confirmed
Infection rates have continued to rise across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – but dropped in Scotland, according to the latest estimates. Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that in the week ending 24 July, approximately 1 in 65 people were estimated to have had COVID-19 in England. The rate was around 1
It’s a book that the author felt was “unfilmable” due to its different time strands. But both Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones were so taken with the adaptation of The Last Letter From Your Lover that they chose not just to star in the film, but to work on it as executive producers as well.
The amount of ice that melted from Greenland on Tuesday alone would be enough to cover the whole US state of Florida in two inches of water, scientists have warned. The autonomous Danish territory is suffering significant melting as Arctic temperatures soar. While the number of gigatons lost is not as extreme as in 2019,
The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said. The seven crew members aboard – two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut, and
1:24 PM BST South Africa’s director of rugby, Rassie Erasmus, posted an hour-long video on Twitter on Thursday airing his grievances over the refereeing in the first test of the British & Irish Lions tour, before saying he would “step away” for the last two tests. The Boks and Lions have each repeatedly voiced their
When CEO Elon Musk reflects on the last decade, he grounds himself in Tesla company goals that were designed to spur the world’s transition to clean energy. Today, he is practical yet optimistic — he sees a future in which energy production moves from reliance on fossil fuels to pragmatic sustainable energy generation. A pervasive