20 m. ago Inflation, currency woes worsen Venezuela's complex crisis as Maduro declares 'economic emergency'

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Economics

30 m. ago Athletic Bilbao vs Rangers injury news: 7 out as Barry Ferguson sweats on 4 for Europa League tie at San Mames

Here is the latest team news ahead of Athletic Bilbao v Rangers in the Europa League quarter final at Sam Mames on Thursday.

Events

37 m. ago ‘Charisma in abundance’: why Just Act Normal is the best showcase for new talent since Adolescence

Incredible newcomers! Chickens! Jamelia! The casting director of Stephen Graham’s Netflix smash hit has done it again with this hilariously bleak, utterly unique series. The cast open upOver the last few years, we have found ourselves inundated with sadcoms. Again and again, we’ve been deluged by ostensible comedies that are so concerned with grief and trauma that the laughs end up feeling like a distant afterthought. Striking the right balance between comedy and drama takes absurd levels of effort and craft at the best of times. Doing it with a premise as bleak as BBC Three’s new series Just Act Normal is almost impossible.My hands are tied with embargos, so I have to be vague about certain plot details, but Just Act Normal is a show about three young siblings who decide to struggle on as normal after their mother – a perennially unreliable woman with substance abuse issues – disappears. Their lives are suddenly spent trying to navigate the complex systems of the adult world while ...

Culture

37 m. ago The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industryThe seafood chef and restaurateur Mitch Tonks recalls the moment things for him changed dramatically. It was March 2020, the start of Covid, when a local fishing boat skipper called him in a panic. “Nick was having a tough time; nobody was buying his catch, so I emailed our customer network,” he says.Tonks asked people to bring cash and containers. The next morning, Nick landed his boat at Brixham, the south Devon port that is England’s largest fish market by value of catch sold. “About 150 people turned up to buy his fish. Many asked ‘why can’t we just buy fish straight off boats like this normally?’” Continue reading...

Economics

37 m. ago Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politiciansOn 13 November 1968, a 35-year-old Labour politician got to his feet in the House of Commons and had a go at the ranks of Conservative members who faced him. Six or so months after Enoch Powell had delivered his infamously racist “rivers of blood” speech in Birmingham, David Winnick – who was then the MP for Croydon South – had decided to attack the Tory fashion for bemoaning immigration to the UK from such countries as India and Pakistan and expressing faux sympathy with deprived communities in British cities. “Many of those who act as the champions of the white person against immigrants,” he said, “have not in the past gone out of their way to defend the interests of the white working class.”As the Economist journalist Joel Budd points out in this nuanced, enlightening book about the people and places Winnick was referring to, this ...

Events

38 m. ago Managing Liverpool as Bournemouth pair and forward sign after Virgil van Dijk transfer plea

Arne Slot is on the verge of delivering the Premier League title in his first Liverpool season but the Reds could be required to strengthen some more in the summer

Society

48 m. ago Hamilton town centre plans: council welcomes positive public response

South Lanarkshire officials say 80 per cent of views expressed in a public consultation were in favour of radical transformation plans

Politics

73 m. ago Australian PM voices concern after report Russia requested access to Indonesia air force base

Anthony Albanese says ‘obviously do not want to see Russian influence in our region’, and analysts say it is unlikely the unusual request would be grantedAustralian prime minister Anthony Albanese has said officials are seeking further information after a report emerged that Russia is seeking to base military aircraft in Indonesia’s remote Papua region, on Australia’s northern doorstep.Albanese said on Tuesday: “We obviously do not want to see Russian influence in our region, very clearly. Continue reading...

Politics

97 m. ago Thousands of pounds of stock stolen in 'devastating' break in at city foodbank charity

The premises of Glasgow South West Foodbank’s Cardonald Foodbank Centre was broken into, burgled and vandalised on Thursday night

Politics

2 h. ago Want a winning economic policy for America? Learn from Andy Grove

The late Intel CEO proposed establishing a bank to back companies that scaled their factories in the US

Economics

2 h. ago South London mum 'died from stroke after ambulance cancelled by mistake'

South London mum 'died from stroke after ambulance cancelled by mistake'  Yahoo News UK

Events

2 h. ago An international conference rallies aid for Sudan after 2 years of war, but peace is elusive

Diplomats and aid officials from around the world are meeting in London to try to ease the suffering from the 2-year-old war in Sudan

Events

2 h. ago Net closes in on Valerie with new footage of dachshund after more than 500 days at large on Kangaroo Island

Team leading South Australian search says risk of disrupting other wildlife has made it hard to capture missing pet dogElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcasNew footage of Valerie the miniature dachshund, missing since 2023, shows her sniffing around a trap and capering with a food box.But more than 500 days since she escaped from a pen on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, Valerie is still at large.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago 'Beautiful secret escape' is medieval French town 'similar to a fairytale'

Le Malzieu-Ville in the south of France is a medieval town that looks like it's straight out of a storybook, and it's been named the country's 'most beautiful secret escape'

Society

3 h. ago Hudson River helicopter crash: Tour company ordered to STOP operations immediately

Agustin Escobar, the CEO of Siemens Spain, and his family were killed after the New York Helicopter chopper plunged from the sky into the Hudson River in New York City

Events

4 h. ago Seven people arrested and crossbow recovered after disturbance in Salford

Police issued a 24-hour dispersal order in Salford spanning Cheetham Street West, Littleton Road, Poppy Lane, Langley Road South and Lissadel Street.

Events

5 h. ago China’s Xi Jinping is in Vietnam to figure out how to ‘screw’ the US, says Trump

US president issues scathing view of Chinese counterpart’s motivations amid escalating trade war with Beijing Xi Jinping’s tour of South-east Asia this week is likely intended to “screw” the United States, President Donald Trump has suggested, as the Chinese leader embarks on five-day tour of some nations hardest hit by Trump’s tariffs.China’s president arrived in Hanoi on Monday, where he met Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam, called for stronger trade ties, and signed dozens of cooperation agreements, including on enhancing supply chains. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago FAA emergency order grounds NYC helicopter tour company involved in deadly crash

Federal aviation regulators issued an emergency order Monday grounding the helicopter tour company involved in a deadly New York crash after learning it had fired its operations director minutes after he had agreed to suspend flights during the investigation

Events

5 h. ago PHOTO COLLECTION: Chinese President Xi Jinping in Southeast Asia

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Politics

6 h. ago Liverpool's unnoticed absence says it all as Arne Slot's transfer priority even clearer

Liverpool are set for a big summer in the transfer market and one area they need to strengthen is up front, with misfiring forward Darwin Nunez likely to leave the club

Politics