2 hours ago This year’s Thanksgiving travel will be the busiest ever. The TSA claims it’s ready

Airport security officials are pleading with passengers to arrive early

Transport

4 hours ago ITV The Chase's Anne Hegerty forced to reveal truth on 'secret husband' Jake Hester

The Chase star Anne Hegerty was once linked to a mystery man named Jake Hester on her Wikipedia page, which stated the pair are married.

Culture

4 hours ago ITV's Lorraine Kelly forced to apologise after major blunder live on air

Lorraine Kelly was forced to apologise after she swore live on air while speaking to Emmerdale star Nicola Wheeler during an episode of her ITV chat show.

Society

6 hours ago Lorraine Kelly forced to apologise as she blurts out swear word live on air

Lorraine Kelly returned to our screens on Monday morning and, during one segment, the ITV host made a major blunder.

Society

6 hours ago Now Ethiopia's PM says Band Aid 40 could 'do more harm than good' after Ed Sheeran and others criticised it for fuelling 'pity rather than partnership'

Abiy Ahmed has intervened in the controversy over the 40th anniversary rerelease of the track which its co-writer Bob Geldof has been forced to defend.

Culture

8 hours ago Charlotte airport workers plan to strike during busy Thanksgiving travel week

Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport plan to go on strike during a busy week of Thanksgiving travel to protest what they say are unlivable wages

Transport

10 hours ago Foreign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water

Coca-Cola extracts largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, FoI request finds‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking waterForeign multinational companies are extracting billions of litres of water from British aquifers to sell as bottled water, the Guardian can reveal.Coca-Cola extracts the largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, the data obtained through freedom of information legislation shows. It has a licence to extract 1.59bn litres of water a year from boreholes in Sidcup, Kent for its soft drinks. On top of that, it has the right to take 377m litres for its bottled water brands Glaceau Smartwater and Abbey Well from Morpeth in Northumberland. Continue reading...

Economics

11 hours ago Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom

Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruptionFelicity Nelson remembers her 17-day detention last September vividly. The 34-year-old Ghanaian activist was one of 53 people arrested at a road junction in Accra after demonstrating alongside hundreds of other youths against illegal mining.In detention, the group found a 54th person in their midst who had not been at the protest but was apprehended after visiting Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the protest’s organiser in hospital. Continue reading...

Economics

12 hours ago More than 1.8MILLION people sign petition demanding a new general election amid mounting fury at Labour's Budget tax raid

The petition on the Parliament website, complaining that Keir Starmer has 'gone back on promises', has been gaining 100,000 backers an hour.

Economics

14 hours ago HBO forced to defend JK Rowling after woke online trolls DEMAND she is removed from her own Harry Potter TV series over her views on transgender issues

HBO has defended JK Rowling after Gen Z launched a pile on the Harry Potter author over her views on transgender issues.

Culture