4 h. ago MARK WRIGLEY: Labour's ruinous war on pubs will cost my bar £70,000. They don't see us as job creators, just assets to be sweated

Like so many small British businesses, my bar in Manchester is a family affair.

Economics

3 d. ago New York City expects biggest nurses strike as nearly 15,000 set to walk off job

Strike, amid an intense flu season, is expected to disrupt activity at institutions such as Mount Sinai and MontefioreThousands of nurses are set to walk off the job at several of New York City’s largest hospitals on Monday, staging a strike amid an intense flu season.The action comes three years after a previous strike that compelled some of the same hospitals to move patients elsewhere and reroute ambulances. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago Woman 'nearly died' after botched £15,000 boob job started leaking green fluid

Lisa Hart, 45, has revealed how she nearly died following a £15,500 boob job after her breast implant started leaking following the reduction

Economics

7 d. ago Furious pub landlords threaten to go on strike and go to 'war' with Labour as Rachel Reeves is accused of treating them 'like cash cows to milk'

Plans being discussed include coordinated strike action, delayed opening hours and even symbolic protests such as ringing pub bells for several minutes straight.

Events

1 week ago Auschwitz survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, Eva Schloss, dies aged 96

Anne Frank would posthumously become famous for her diary, published after the war.

Events

2 w. ago Champagne sparklers blamed for inferno that cost 47 lives: Survivors tell of panic to escape Swiss ski bar engulfed by flames in seconds

Families face an agonising wait to find out whether loved ones died in the early hours at Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, south-west Switzerland.

Events

2 w. ago ‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI

New head of preparedness at OpenAI will face unnerving in-tray amid fears from some experts that AI could ‘turn on us’The maker of ChatGPT has advertised a $555,000-a-year vacancy with a daunting job description that would cause Superman to take a sharp intake of breath.In what may be close to the impossible job, the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons. Continue reading...

Economics

2 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: Another year of war, unpunished wrongdoing, public lying and monstrous taxation... but here's why I'm lucky

Can anyone tell me what is so good about optimism? I was lucky enough to be born a pessimist, a view of the world which millions take decades to learn.

Events

3 w. ago Farage criticised for £400,000 job promoting physical gold as pension investment

Exclusive: Reform leader promotes Direct Bullion – but experts say commodity is not for everyday investorsNigel Farage has been criticised over his £400,000-a-year second job promoting the idea that people should buy physical gold and put it into their pension pots.Farage is paid more than four times his MPs’ salary for the four-hour-a-month job at Direct Bullion, where he has featured in Facebook and YouTube videos. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago ‘Factual inaccuracies’ in Andrew’s Epstein accounts, lawyers said in emails

The internal communications came during a public war of words between the former duke and US prosecutors.

Politics