2 hours ago About sharing People protest against Rubiales in Madrid on Monday By Fiona Nimoni BBC News It has been a tumultuous week for women’s football, as it deals with the aftermath of Luis Rubiales kissing Spanish national star Jenni Hermoso on the lips at the Women’s World Cup final. The row over the…
The retail trade body, British Retail Consortium, says price rises are slowing but remain high.
Sara Sharif was found dead at her home in Woking the day after her family flew to Pakistan.
19 minutes ago About sharing Watch: The day UK air traffic control went down… in 71 seconds By Oliver Slow and Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Passengers have been warned that flights in and out of the UK remain “significantly disrupted” following an air traffic fault on Monday. Despite the issue being resolved within hours, Heathrow…
25 minutes ago About sharing Air passengers are facing significant delays to their flights after a “technical issue” hit the UK air traffic control system. The National Air Traffic Services said on Monday afternoon that the glitch had been fixed, however hundreds of flights were cancelled. The problem emerged on one of the busiest days…
4 hours ago About sharing Phoenix: A humanoid robot developed by Sanctuary AI By Ben Morris Technology of Business Editor Imagine the biggest market for a physical product you can. Are you thinking of mobile phones? Cars? Property? They are all chunky markets but in the coming decades a new product will be rolled out…
1 hour ago About sharing Caroline Aldridge: “We cannot have people watering it [the report] down when it’s about deaths.” By Nikki Fox & Matt Precey BBC Newsnight A critical report into how a mental health trust mismanaged its mortality figures was edited to remove criticism of its leadership, the BBC has found. In June,…
29 minutes ago About sharing Keira switched unis in clearing to get a room for her first year By Branwen Jeffreys & NJ Convery Education editor and producer Student housing shortages are going to get worse in some cities, according to the charity Unipol. It says the number of new purpose-built rooms being created is…
Activism / Q&A / August 28, 2023 Drew Faust on Growing Up in the Sixties A conversation with Harvard’s first woman president about how she became a civil rights and anti-war activist. Jon Wiener Ad Policy (MacMillan) Drew Faust was the first woman president of Harvard, from 2007 to 2018. Before that, she was the…
48 minutes ago About sharing Watch: The first peek into a mysterious time capsule at a US military academy By Holly Honderich BBC News Staff and students at West Point, the famed US military academy, gathered on Monday for what was supposed to be a historic moment: the opening of a mysterious 1820s time capsule,…