BBC News Bosses should not rely so heavily on virtual job interviews when hiring as they don’t capture candidates’ personality and passion, Andy Burnham has said. “One thing I really don’t like is this culture now of interviewing via Zoom or Teams,” the prime minister told a careers podcast, adding: “How does a young person […]
BBC News Shell’s profits for the second quarter of the year have more than doubled after the Iran war pushed up oil prices. The oil giant’s profits for the April-to-June period reached $9.84bn (£7.37bn) – up from $4.26bn at the same point last year. The price of oil has soared since the outbreak of the […]
BBC News How do you replace the irreplaceable? Manchester City are often title favourites having won six of the past nine Premier League trophies, but they start this new season without their greatest ever manager, Pep Guardiola. The 55-year-old led City to 17 major trophies in 10 years, but left at the end of last […]
BBC News Coleman’s younger brother Tony Nye remembers him as “loving, caring, kind, friendly, funny… an amazing singer, an amazing cook”. Despite the trauma and alcohol-related health problems that marked much of Coleman’s life, he remained close to his family, particularly his grandmother, who raised him. Nye said: “He would call her every day. Without […]
BBC News Polling stations across Greater Manchester have opened in a mayoral election that was triggered when Andy Burnham resigned as the city region’s mayor. MPs are not permitted to be mayor, meaning Burnham had to stand down after his success in last month’s Makerfield parliamentary by-election. His election as an MP paved the way […]
BBC News From day one Chinchar thought “we got something”. Traore learned his first playbook in a matter of days, which is like learning a new language. And playing as a wide receiver, he was immediately dominant against kids who had played the game their whole life. He thinks his goalkeeping skills helped. “Hand-eye coordination, […]
BBC News After the widespread condemnation of both the proposals and the manner in which they have been created, Fifa released an eight-page document highlighting the reasons behind them on Wednesday evening. Fifa said its view was that “too little of football’s growing commercial value has reached the parts of the game that need it […]
BBC News “We’ve been displaced from place to place, and now we have nowhere left to go,” says Umm Mohammed al-Shawish. She is desperately searching for somewhere to live after Israel moved yellow concrete blocks that mark out where it controls in the Gaza Strip. Families living in al-Tuffah in northern Gaza woke on Monday […]
