BBC News Prime Minister Andy Burnham will have to raise taxes or cut spending to meet his pledges on defence and the cost of living, a major think tank has said. Burnham has announced a series of new measures since assuming office last week, including cuts to electricity bills and bringing the bus fare cap […]
BBC News Last week Badenoch wrote to the prime minister saying he should rule out tax rises or increased borrowing to fund social care reform. A Conservative spokesman said Andrew would attend in Badenoch’s place and was ready to work with Labour on measures that improved social care – provided they were not reliant on […]
BBC News Zack Polanski has refused three times to apologise to Nigel Farage for re-posting a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slogan “we’re only making plans for Nigel”. Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, said the image showed a “photo of man calling for […]
BBC News Wimbledon’s push to win India is strategic and not accidental, Darshana Bhalla, a sports branding expert told the BBC. India is already Wimbledon’s largest international audience by reach, and 2026 is a particularly important year with Arnav Paparkar becoming the first Indian in 36 years to reach the under-18 boys singles quarter finals. […]
BBC News Couples are also getting married later, points out Julia Rodgers, cofounder of US prenup platform HelloPrenup. “You may have some [university] debt, maybe started a business or purchased a home. So you have a lot to protect and to lose by the age of 34,” she says. What’s become known as “the Great […]
BBC News The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a ban on new foreign-made humanoid robot imports to the US over “unacceptable risks” to the country’s national security. The move applies to advanced robots – including humanoid and four-legged machines. Many of them are made in China, which is locked in a race with the US […]
BBC News The six basic travel adaptors also presented fire safety concerns in tests. These included missing safety shutters – which protect people from coming into contact with a plug’s live internal parts – missing fuses and oversized pin holes. The Office for Product Safety and Standards has noted such concerns when issuing alerts for […]
BBC News These laboratories, where Mexicans have been working, have since been uncovered in Kenya, Mozambique and in South Africa. Since 2023 “we’ve seen…14 Mexican-operated labs in total [being raided]. We saw the one in 2023 [in Mozambique], we saw six more in 2024, we saw two in 2025 and we’ve seen five this year,” […]
BBC News Iran has launched “multiple” ballistic missiles in an “attempted surprise attack” on American forces in the Middle East, the US military says, shattering a lull in the fighting. The attack occurred at 17:45 EDT (21:45 GMT) on Tuesday, and all missiles were “successfully intercepted”, said US Central Command, without specifying the locations of […]
