Mortgage payers and business owners will be hopeful that a cut in interest rates to 5% by the Bank of England this week signals a return to the pre-pandemic era of low borrowing costs. Unless much lower interest bills arrive soon, thousands of homeowners and businesses could be forced to sell up. Claire, a maternity … Read more
After the singing and dancing, there was screaming. And then silence. Paramedics and firefighters crouched to the ground, ashen-faced, struggling to process the horror they had witnessed. The blue lights of their vehicles continued to flash two hours after the atrocity but their sirens were turned off, like an emergency on mute. The only sound … Read more
The reintroduction of M Night Shyamalan offered the kind of specifically alluring comeback narrative that a certain generation was compelled to blindly support. Those of us who came of age with the flashy writer-director’s pack-em-in event movies could easily remember the flurry of excitement that came with each one – a rare example of a … Read more
Hyderabad: In a pivotal move towards empowering women entrepreneurs and spurring economic growth, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is excited to unveil the Women Entrepreneurship Program. This initiative, aims to tackle the challenges faced by women in entrepreneurship by offering crucial skills, knowledge, and networking opportunities. The program has been launched with the introduction … Read more
Al Jazeera has strongly rejected the Israeli military’s claim that its correspondent killed in an air strike in Gaza this week was a Hamas operative who participated in the 7 October attacks. Harrowing video shared on social media showed Ismail al-Ghoul’s decapitated body after he was targeted in his car in Gaza City on Wednesday. … Read more
Villepinte, France: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has landed in the middle of a divide about gender in sports after her Italian competitor, Angela Carini, pulled out seconds into their bout at the Paris Olympics. Outcry has come from conservatives like former U.S. President Donald Trump and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni. Khelif was disqualified from the … Read more
Four-rider teams, mammoth distances, a lack of race radios and the prize at stake — a gold medal at the foot of the Eiffel Tower — may make this weekend’s Olympic road race the most intense one-day event these riders ever face. The smaller teams and lack of communications may also make the men’s and … Read more
The Kremlin has admitted that Vadim Krasikov, the assassin freed by Germany in a historic prisoner swap on Thursday, is a serving officer of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), essentially an acknowledgment that his 2019 murder of a Chechen exile in Berlin was a state-ordered hit. It also hinted that he … Read more
It was called “toxic”, “revolting”, “totally addictive” and the “final nail in the coffin of civilisation” when it first premiered on Netflix four years ago. Now, Love Is Blind, the wildly successful reality dating show that claims to stand in opposition to dating-app culture, is coming to the UK, with 30 British singletons hoping to … Read more
Crowds gathered in Doha to bury the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated in Tehran this week, as the US president, Joe Biden, said the killing had “not helped” efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza and warned he was concerned about escalating regional conflict. Iran has vowed revenge for the humiliating attack in the heart … Read more