16 h. ago Indian students receive $200,000 payout after university staff member complains about ‘pungent’ food

What started as a dispute over kitchen etiquette spiralled into disciplinary action against an Indian student couple, loss of funding, and a legal battle that ended in a sizeable settlement. Shahana Yasmin reports

Society

5 d. ago Trump says he’s been assured Tehran has stopped killing protesters as Iran closes its airspace – live

US president says ‘important sources’ also told him executions not going ahead as Iran extends order closing its airspace to commercial flightsFull report: US and UK military to withdraw some personnel from Middle East amid Iranian threatsIran crisis explained: what we know so far Analysis: why western diplomats are wary of predicting regime’s end days Podcast: Massacres and executions: what are we hearing from inside Iran?India has become the latest country to urge its citizens to leave Iran.The Indian embassy in Tehran said in a post on X:Indian nationals who are currently in Iran (students, pilgrims, business persons and tourists) are advised to leave Iran by available means of transport, including commercial flights.Trump said Iranian opposition figure Reza Pahlavi “seems very nice” but expressed uncertainty about whether Pahlavi would be able to muster support within Iran to eventually take over. “I don’t know how he’d play within his own country,” Trump told Reuters in the Ova...

Events

6 d. ago UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rightsSeveral faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago A $400,000 payout after Maduro's capture is putting prediction markets in the spotlight

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

Economics

1 week ago Martin Lewis urges people to check for Council Tax payout of up to £12,000

The consumer champion warned around 400,000 households are entitled to Council Tax refunds but not claiming.

Economics

1 week ago Coyote Ugly waitress wins £35,000 payout after colleague 'humiliated' her over Brazilian accent

Ana Beatriz Machado, 30, was awarded the compensation after a fellow female worker told her she 'didn't like her voice' and customers 'don't understand her'.

Economics

2 w. ago Staff at four universities vote on possible strike action in disputes over cuts

The University and College Union has called on senior staff at Aberdeen, Stirling, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde to rule out compulsory redundancies.

Politics

2 w. ago Double killer gets £7,500 payout for human rights breaches as taxpayers foot £234,000 legal bill

Fuad Awale was convicted in January 2013 of the execution-style shooting of two teenagers

Economics

2 w. ago Islamist double killer wins £240k payout after suffering ‘severe depression’ due to being isolated from other inmates

AN Islamist double murderer has been awarded a £7,500 payout after a taxpayer funded £234,000 legal battle. Fuad Awale was convicted in January 2013 of the execution-style shooting of two teenagers and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 38 years. He was then given a further six years for taking a prison officer...

Economics

2 w. ago End of park and ride to hospital that's 'impossible to park at' will cause 'chaos'

NHS staff say plans to end the park and ride at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff will cause chaos

Events