42 m. ago Trade deal with US could spell end of UK’s bioethanol industry, say bosses

Hundreds of jobs may be at risk as Starmer agrees to remove tariffs on US ethanol, say heads of ABF Sugar and EnsusBusiness live – latest updatesThe British bioethanol industry could collapse as a result of Keir Starmer’s trade deal with Donald Trump, industry bosses have said.The bosses of ABF Sugar and Ensus, the companies behind almost all of the UK’s production capacity of bioethanol – a petrol substitute produced from agricultural products – have said hundreds of jobs in north-east England and Yorkshire could be at risk as a result of the deal. Continue reading...

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56 m. ago UK politics live: Starmer vows to cut immigration ‘significantly’ by end of his first parliament

Starmer announces every area of UK’s immigration system will be tightened

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62 m. ago Trump – live updates: US strikes trade deal with China as tariffs slashed for 90 days

Tariffs will drop 115 percent after weeks of escalation, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said

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64 m. ago ‘Now I steal people’s attention’: how a Brazilian newspaper has turned a city’s rough sleepers into journalists

Porto Alegre’s Boca de Rua is sold and written by some of the city’s most vulnerable people, giving them a voice and a sense of purposeEvery Tuesday afternoon, Michel Vasconcelos goes to an open-air market in Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil, his backpack full of newspapers to sell, to which he contributes words and illustrations. “I used to steal and deal drugs,” says Vasconcelos, 43, who ended up living on the streets due to a family fall out.It was there that he got involved, nearly 10 years ago, with the project Boca de Rua (Word on the Street) and became, in his own words, a paperboy and journalist. “Now, I steal people’s attention and deal in information,” he says, flashing a smile. Continue reading...

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64 m. ago The one change that worked: I started sketching – and stopped doomscrolling

Drawing pictures of my family, pets and strangers has made me a calmer, happier person – and given me a tender record of my lifeI’ve always battled with phone use. I resent how much my sense of being alive in the world – feeling it, doing things, making stuff happen – is affected by my screen time. So a few years ago, I decided to do a sketch every day.I had always wanted to draw, but I was embarrassed about starting out because I was so bad at it. Then I bought a few black notebooks: a small one for my jacket pocket, and larger ones for my bedside and for the kitchen table. As no one would ever see my drawings, I decided I didn’t need to care about what anyone thought. Continue reading...

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76 m. ago US and China agree deal to slash tariffs for 90 days in bid to end massive trade war

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says reciprocal tariffs will come down over 100 percentage points to 10%

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81 m. ago France blasts 'fake news' after Emmanuel Macron is accused of 'hiding bag of cocaine' while posing for photos alongside Keir Starmer

France has responded to a 'fake' claim that President Emmanuel Macron hid a bag of cocaine while posing for a photo with Keir Starmer and Germany's Friedrich Merz over the weekend. 

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98 m. ago Panicking Starmer admits mass immigration risks making Britain an 'island of strangers' as he tries to head off Reform surge

Keir Starmer deployed the Brexit slogan at a press conference in Downing Street as he pledged to end the 'betrayal' of Britain's reliance on cheap foreign labour.

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1 hour ago 'This plan means migration will fall. That's a promise': Keir Starmer unveils immigration crackdown

The Prime Minister said tougher restrictions were needed, warning that Britain risked becoming 'an island of strangers'

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1 hour ago Keir Starmer promises net migration will fall ‘significantly’ by end of this parliament – UK politics live

PM says policies will ‘take back control’ of migration as promised, but not delivered, by Tory BrexitersWhat change in rules means for migrants and employersQ: If you want to grow the economy, won’t these plans make it harder because it will be more difficult for people to get UK citizenship?Starmer says he does not accept the argument that high immigration is always good for growth. The last government had high immigration but stagnant growth.I promise that [net migration] will fall significantly, and I do want to get it down by the end of this parliament, significantly. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago UK politics live: Starmer vows to ‘take back control of borders’ as he unveils tighter immigration rules

Starmer announces every area of UK’s immigration system will be tightened

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1 hour ago Brooklyn no longer sees his old friends and 'does whatever Nicola Peltz asks', insiders tell KATIE HIND, as they reveal how David and Victoria are horrified at their daughter

It was just a few months after their wedding that Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz attended a launch event staged by American fast food giant Wendy's.

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1 hour ago Keir Starmer pledges crackdown on immigration to UK but faces fierce opposition from SNP

Immigration is a reserved matter meaning MSPs at Holyrood have no formal say in deciding UK policy.

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1 hour ago Trump live: US strikes trade deal with China as tariffs slashed for 90 days

Tariffs will drop 115 percent after weeks of escalation, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said

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1 hour ago UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’, says PM as he unveils immigration plans

The Prime Minister said the Labour Government would ‘take back control of our borders’.

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1 hour ago 'Absolute astonishment' The strict immigration plans announced by Keir Starmer

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says all areas of immigration will be tightened up.

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1 hour ago Susanna Reid says 'this is big' as Good Morning Britain halted for breaking news

Good Morning Britain was interrupted on Monday morning as hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley went live to Downing Street for a speech from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

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1 hour ago US Trade Representative Greer says US and China to roll back most tariffs

U.S. and Chinese officials say they have reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs for 90 days and keep talking to resolve their trade disputes

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2 h. ago Truth behind Emanuel Macron's 'white bag' video on train as 'cocaine' claims go viral

The truth is always less interesting than wild claims on social media, as a viral video of a meeting between Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz has left the internet divided

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2 h. ago ‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB

The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigningWhen game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris at the 1988 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, he immediately knew it was special. “It was just the perfect game,” he recalls. “It looked so simple, so rudimentary, but I wanted to play it again and again and again There was no other game demo that ever did that to me.”Rogers is now co-owner of the Tetris Company, which manages and licenses the Tetris brand. Over the past 30 years, he has become almost as famous as the game itself. The escapades surrounding his deal to buy its distribution rights from Russian agency Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) were dramatised in an Apple TV+ film starring Taron Egerton. “I suggested that Johnny Depp or Keanu Reeves should play me, but apparently they were way too old,” Rogers says. Continue r...

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