5 h. ago Man quits job as he's accidentally paid 330 times his wage, and wins fight to keep it

An office assistant who was accidentally paid £126,860 instead of £385 and then quit the company has won a legal fight to keep the money - but the company has vowed to appeal

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56 h. ago Top Welsh council official holds prominent role at company behind major energy park plans

Marcus Goldsworthy is Vale of Glamorgan Council's director of place, which is the team responsible for the local authority's planning functions

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64 h. ago The Threesome review – sexy romcom deals with unexpected complications of a throupling

Plausible twists, engaging characters and a charismatic cast make three the magic number in this impeccably calibrated comedyWhen a drunken threesome leads to a pregnancy or two – really, who’s counting? – navigating the emotional and practical fallout proves understandably challenging for Connor (Jonah Hauer-King), Olivia (Zoey Deutch) and Jenny (Ruby Cruz) in this supremely agreeable romcom. While the premise may sound on paper like the setup for a loud, crude 00s comedy, this is a much more finely tuned piece of work than that, with engaging characters and an impeccably calibrated plot full of plausible twists and turns that are wild yet still realistic, and feel earned because the characters respond like actual humans to their situation.It’s true that the spiky rat-a-tat dialogue, reminiscent of both 90s sitcoms and 30s and 40s screwball comedy, isn’t quite how people talk in the real world, but it’s highly enjoyable when delivered by a good-looking and charismatic cast, among w...

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3 d. ago A racer’s F1 dream, a crash and a perspective shift: ‘Everything else in life is so minor’

In 2023, Adam Fitzgerald was involved in a horror collision at Spa which took the life of 18-year-old Dilano van ‘t Hoff. The Irishman now speaks to Kieran Jackson, having quit racing and entered the world of business, about moving on from the crash

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3 d. ago New negotiating body comprised of trade unions and employers will help end 'poverty pay and zero hours exploitation' for care workers

The health and social care secretary today pledged £500million of funding to boost pay and conditions in the sector and described it as 'just the start'.

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3 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: one dead, 65 buried under rubble as rescuers race to find survivors

Death toll expected to rise as instability of building in East Java town hampers rescue efforts At least one student has been killed, dozens injured and 65 presumed buried under rubble after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday, with rescuers running oxygen and water to those who remained trapped more than 12 hours later.Rescue workers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors hours after the building at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in the East Java town of Sidoarjo collapsed while students were praying. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Travel nanny for the rich and famous reveals how she was forced to sit in economy 'entertaining the kids' while the parents sat in First Class

Three British travel nannies have opened up about the highs and lows of working for wealthy families around the world - revealing it's not quite the dream role that it may seem. 

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8 d. ago Broke preschool demands parents cough up $2,000 for their children's art

A preschool has been slammed as 'un-Australian' after it demanded parents fork out $2,200 for their children's artwork to cover teachers' unpaid wages.

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9 d. ago 23 miners rescued after 43 hours trapped in Colombian gold mine

Twenty-three workers have been rescued after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia

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1 week ago ‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes

Plans to improve the world heritage site for tourists put its living culture at risk, say locals and campaignersBy noon, the sun is high over Petra, bleaching the coloured sandstone cliffs and temporarily emptying its celebrated ruins of tourists. Vines and a canopy keep the terrace of Mohammed Feras s cave home cool despite the searing summer heat rising from the rocky valley.“I have lived here all my life. I’ve never been anywhere else and I cannot imagine not living here. This area is part of who I am and I cannot leave it,” the 44-year-old farmer and sometime tourist guide said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US Ryder Cup icon launches searing jibe at Team Europe saying some can't handle heat

Former player and skipper Lanny Wadkins says Americans get the same grief and they don't moan about crowds

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2 w. ago ABC news anchor quits, saying she faced retaliation after teary Charlie Kirk tribute: ‘First targeted for honoring him’

Beni Rae Harmony worked for Kirk as a producer and administrator several years ago

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3 w. ago ‘Unpaid wages, searing heat, long hours’: why workers are quitting the world’s largest renewable energy park

A vast migrant labour force is helping India meet its ambitious renewable energy goals, drawn by promises of good wages and perks. But many say they are forced to ‘escape’ without payA month into his new job at the world’s largest renewable energy park in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch, Anawar Alam was planning his escape. Hired along with 17 others who had travelled with him to work on the construction of a solar project, Alam had hoped that the promised pay and perks would support his family back home on the farm in Bihar. But within two weeks he was having second thoughts.“Nothing really prepared us for where we would be working or the fact that it was so far from the nearest village. The work was strenuous, the shifts were 12 hours, and we were living in makeshift tents,” says Alam. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fearless Rogers leads England to double act of silencing locals and their doubters | Barney Ronay

Thomas Tuchel had his big moment in a World Cup qualifier but home fans were more concerned with off-pitch issuesSport: it just keeps on trying to tell you things. On a gripping, clammy, oddly distracted night in Belgrade, England and Serbia produced what felt at times like a twin-track spectacle, a perfect embodiment of the idea of elite sport as a kind of theatre that takes while the world burns around it.There seemed to be two quite different things happening in the same timeline. In the first of these, the official spectacle, England produced an expertly controlled away performance, in the process all but sealing qualification for the World Cup. This was a Morgan Rogers story, a Thomas Tuchel finds his moment story, the transition from joyless wiry German death-football technocrat to fun wiry German tactical rainmaker. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago New home secretary Shabana Mahmood says she will not run for deputy leader after Labour accused of ‘stitch

Candidates will need backing of 80 MPs by 5pm on Thursday if they wish to standPaul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, used his speech to conference this morning to say that the TUC expected the government to deliver its workers’ rights bill “in full”. He said employment rights were “overwhelmingly popular with voters across the political spectrum”.And he condemned Reform UK for its stance on employment rights. After saying that Nigel Farage claimed to represent working class people, he went on:Here’s the truth – there is a world of difference between what Nigel says and what Nigel does.Every single Reform MP, including Mr Farage, voted against outlawing fire and rehire, against banning zero hours contracts and against day one rights for millions of workers.Ask yourself this fundamental question. Do you believe in your gut that that Nigel Farage really cares about the people of Clacton when he’s off collecting his speaker’s fees in the United States?Do you believe that Richard Tice r...

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3 w. ago Dr Michael Mosley's widow Clare says she and their children returned to Greek island where he died on the anniversary of his death

The popular broadcaster and Daily Mail columnist was tragically found dead near the resort of Agia Marina on Symi last June, four days after he went missing while on a walk in searing 40C heat.

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4 w. ago Lionel Messi drops retirement stunner as he tears up BEFORE his likely last game on Argentine soil: Wife sends heartfelt message as superstar suggests he could even quit pre

The superstar bowed out with an impressive two-goal performance in a 3-0 victory against Venezuela in front of a raucous sellout crowd in Buenos Aires.

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