4 minutes ago Rachel Reeves set to raise capital gains tax rate on sales of shares in Budget

Budget reforms will not increase the rate on sales of properties, it has been reported

Economics

6 minutes ago Trump – who is running for president at 78 – says ‘only stupid people’ put old people in top federal roles

Trump is currently the oldest nominee for president in US history and, if elected in November, will be 82 years old when he completes his term

Politics

12 minutes ago Type 2 diabetes and weight loss jabs ‘could help people with alcohol addiction’

The research found that these commonly used drugs resulted in a 50% reduction in alcohol intoxication rates among those taking them, compared to those who weren't

Politics

41 minutes ago Welcome funding boost for Friends of Cambuslang Park charity from housebuilder

The organisation has organised activities for thousands of local people to enjoy

Politics

48 minutes ago GP issues warning over Covid levels in UK but says doctors 'can't tell a lot of the time'

Dr Helen Wall said we 'probably have a lot of Covid circulating' but GPs 'don't know a lot of the time' if people are suffering from it or other infections

Events

91 minutes ago ‘Scramble for the oceans’: how countries are racing to name and claim remote parts of the seabed

Newly ‘discovered’ underwater topographical features are paving the way for nation states to exploit previously untouched marine resources“The sea does not belong to despots,” Jules Verne wrote in 1869 in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. “Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at 30 feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.”Now, more than 150 years later, geopolitics experts are warning that Verne’s final sentiment, expressed as it was through the character of Captain Nemo, was wrong. From seabeds and sea caves to sea canyons, underwater ridges, seamounts, sea knolls and reefs, academics say countries around the world are using...

Politics

1 hour ago LIVE: Firefighters tackle huge blaze with people urged to 'avoid area'

Crews have been battling the fire through the early hours this morning

Events

2 hours ago Middle East crisis live: US stealth bombers strike Houthi targets in Yemen

Pentagon says US air force used long-range B-2 stealth bombers to target ‘five hardened underground weapons storage locations’ of Iran-backed Houthis See all our Middle East coverageA brief update on the Israeli strikes on Syrian coastal city Latakia (see earlier post here).Two people were injured and there was some damage to private properties, Syrian state media reported citing a military statement. Continue reading...

Events

2 hours ago Georgia measure would cap increases in homes' taxable value to curb higher property taxes

Georgia voters unhappy about rising property tax bills could limit how much of a home’s increasing value can be taxed

Society

2 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

Politics