27 minutes ago Trump’s trade tariffs would threaten economic growth, Bank of England’s Lombardelli warns – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsTrump’s tariff threat sets stage for bitter global trade warUS tariffs would also have an impact on American consumers.Economists at Deutsche Bank have calculated that if Trump’s threatened tariffs were fully implemented, US core PCE inflation for 2025 could increase from 2.6% to 3.7%.“With the potential threat of tariff hikes in 2025, it’s likely China’s policymakers would come up with further stimulus packages to counter downward economic growth pressure from domestic cyclical weakness and increased external uncertainty.There remains plenty of scope for China to surprise the markets.” Continue reading...

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37 minutes ago Khéphren Thuram on father Lilian: ‘It’s a beautiful thing – listening to him makes me grow’

The Juventus midfielder discusses his father’s activism, what Thierry Henry always told him and how Douglas Luiz views the challenge of facing Aston Villa“I don’t know if it was destiny,” says a beaming Khéphren Thuram over a video call from Turin, but all the same he can glimpse a certain poetry in his journey. Born in Italy, the son of the great Juventus defender Lilian Thuram, now running the midfield in those same black and white stripes. “It’s a beautiful story,” he says. “People outside see the romance in it. But I’m just doing my job.”On Wednesday his job takes him to Villa Park in the Champions League, the first time the 23‑year‑old will play competitively on English soil. Not that he will be underprepared. His teammate Douglas Luiz has already briefed him on thei...

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38 minutes ago AD FEATURE: Scottish estate planning firm reveals how to prevent your home from being lost for care fees

ILAWS Scotland shares what you can do to help protect your financial assets in the future

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48 minutes ago Leading children’s charity issues plea for Lanarkshire locals to consider adoption

Barnardo’s Scotland has pointed to Scottish Adoption Register (SAR) figures that show the number of registered adopters has fallen from 209 at the end of March 2023 to 169 on the corresponding date this year. That is a decrease of 19 per cent.

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48 minutes ago Women on social media are horrified to hear 'almost all men' are guilty of revolting toilet habit

Tales of such disgusting discoveries abound on social media with wives, girlfriends sisters and mothers unearthing collections in bedrooms kept like an aristocrat's wine cellar.

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67 minutes ago The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of love

Murakami revisits a hypnotic city of dreams, in material he’s been working on for four decadesThe elegiac quality of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, his first in six years, was perhaps inevitable considering its origins. The City and Its Uncertain Walls began as an attempt to rework a 1980 story of the same title, originally published in the Japanese magazine Bungakukai, which Murakami, unsatisfied, never allowed to be republished or translated.“I felt that this work contained something vital for me,” Murakami writes in the novel’s afterword, “at the time, though, unfortunately I lacked the skills to convey what that something was.” Five years later, his first attempt at a revision developed into the novel Hard‑Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a narrative that ran “par...

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90 minutes ago Pakistan ends lockdown of its capital after Imran Khan supporters are dispersed by police

Authorities have reopened roads linking Pakistan’s capital with the rest of the country, ending a four-day lockdown, after using tear gas and firing into the air to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who demanded his release from prison

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2 hours ago Police officer Kristian White's employment is 'under review' after jury found him guilty of Taser manslaughter of Clare Nowland

Senior Constable Kristian White's employment is 'under review' after he was found guilty of unlawfully killing a 95-year-old woman with dementia in a nursing home.

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2 hours ago Eight people including 6 children missing as heavy rains trigger flooding in Sri Lanka

Police in Sri Lanka say eight people, including six children who were returning from school, have gone missing when the farm tractor they were traveling on was swept away by floods triggered by heavy rains

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2 hours ago Arsenal injury update: Gabriel, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Ben White latest news and return dates

Gunners still have multiple defenders sidelined with the fixtures piling up across all competitions

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