4 d. ago New DHS rule aims to shorten visa wait times abroad for religious workers serving US congregations

The Department of Homeland Security is making it easier for visa-holding religious workers to serve U.S. congregations with less disruption

Economics

4 d. ago Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role

Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services in director Hikari’s silly and saccharine filmBrendan Fraser is a bland and ingratiating presence in this glib, silly and pointless film from Japanese actor turned director Hikari. It is bafflingly complacent in its sentimentality and its sheer, fatuous implausibility, which makes it valueless and meaningless as drama and comedy.Fraser plays Phillip, a hapless unemployed actor from the US who a few years previously came to Tokyo to do a goofy TV ad for toothpaste and, having no friends or family back home, simply stayed on. He lucks into a weird new source of income: working for a “rental family”, based on firms in Japan which really do offer bespoke therapeutic role-play services, such as errant spouses, deceased loved ones or unsatisfactory co-workers – people who can be chatted with, or mourned, or yelled at for cathartic purposes. Continue reading...

Society

8 d. ago Three police officers and two paramedics hit by van at scene of crash

The injured emergency service workers were all taken to hospital

Events

1 week ago LNER worker fired after first class passengers served sausage rolls 'from bin'

Peter Duffy has lost his claim for unfair dismissal against LNER after he was found to have committed gross misconduct after serving the snacks he found in a bin

Events

2 w. ago Train worker sacked after passengers served sausage rolls taken from bin said he’d ‘gone too far for the customer’

Peter Duffy was accused of preparing sausage rolls "retrieved from a bin" for first-class passengers, which a colleague then served

Economics

2 w. ago LNER train crew served first class passengers sausage rolls that had been taken out of a bin

A train worker who served first class passengers sausage rolls taken from a bin claimed he was going 'above and beyond for the customer'.

Politics

2 w. ago Why Indian gig workers are on strike on New Year’s Eve over ‘10

Quick commerce and food delivery services offer higher commissions as thousands of gig workers strike during holiday

Events