BBC News Three weeks into his premiership, Andy Burnham has “hit bumps in the road” in the estimation of one long-serving Labour MP with the row over the early release of some prisoners from jail. His political opponents are already sharpening their attacks, believing they have found an issue with which to discomfit a new […]
BBC News A train operator is running services lasting more than five-and-a-half hours despite having no toilets available on board. The Lumo trains run on the West Coast Main Line, covering the new 417-mile (671km) route between Stirling and London Euston. Lumo, which is owned by FirstGroup, first warned about a “fault” with the toilets […]
BBC News England defender Lucy Bronze says a Uefa boycott of Fifa competitions would be the “right thing” for the future of the game, despite the impact it could have on women’s football. “I think the players who play in those competitions, the European players, we stand by our beliefs and what the right thing […]
Tech For years, the crypto industry’s biggest challenge has been finding users beyond traders. Now, some of its largest companies think they’ve found them in AI agents. Although speculation still underpins much of crypto’s business, companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into users of crypto wallets, stablecoins and payment […]
BBC News Available for over a year Today, after a week of deadly strikes targeting factories and infrastructure is the War in Ukraine entering a new phase of aggression? President Zelensky has appealed for more ballistic missile interceptors after twenty one people were killed in a night in Kyiv. Moscow fired 115 drones and 24 […]
Tech Timon Schneider | Lightrocket | Getty Images Building on the growing popularity of livestreamed shopping, startup market Whatnot said on Friday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its valuation from less than a year ago. Whatnot, which said that it has more than 650,000 […]
Digital Trends For many industries, making a large sequence of decisions in succession can be one of the most complicated yet vital components of ensuring daily operations function as intended. The e-commerce industry is no exception, as retailers have to make dozens, if not hundreds, of choices between the point at which a sale was […]
BBC News AFC is the largest military training establishment for under-19s in the UK and it receives all the Army’s 16-year-old recruits. North Yorkshire Police told the BBC in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request it had received 16 reports of sexual offences linked to the college in the year to June, […]
BBC News Authorities earlier warned people to stay away from the area and for those trapped in the building to hide and wait for rescuers. The Debsirin School, founded in Bangkok in 1885, is one of Thailand’s top secondary schools with branches across the country. It counts many prominent Thai figures as its alumni, from […]
