The collapse of the value of the pound in the wake of Friday’s mini-budget appears to have stalled, for now, but only thanks to market expectations that the Bank of England will be forced to intervene. The rout for sterling, which began after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng revealed a £45bn tax cut plan on top of
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A combined Chinese and Russian naval convoy, including a guided missile cruiser and a destroyer have been spotted close to an Alaskan island by the US Coastguard. Two other Chinese naval ships and three Russian naval vessels were sighted in the Bering Sea in a single formation 86 miles (138 km) from Kiska Island by
The Queen’s funeral has seen the biggest ever gathering of senior dignitaries, with more than 500 Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers and presidents travelling to London for the occasion.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, French President Emmanuel Macron addresses reports that he’s linked to some of the classified material found at Mar-a-Lago. #CNN #News
In China, new energy vehicles typically receive green license plates – which is often easier for residents to apply for versus the blue license plate of a traditional fuel-powered car. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — While Chinese companies churn out new electric cars, local insurance firms think they’re more expensive
11:02 AM ET Georgia Tech fired athletic director Todd Stansbury and head football coach Geoff Collins on Monday. Collins was in his fourth season as coach. The Yellow Jackets have lost nine straight games to FBS opponents dating to last season and are coming off a 27-10 loss to UCF. “I am grateful to Coach
The ONYX CTY2 is the brand’s latest electric motorbike, and also much more affordable than the RCR e-bike. Delivering the ability to ride for 60 miles on a single charge at up to 20 MPH, the ONYX CTY2 is on sale for only the second time that we’ve tracked at $200 off. This is a
In this article XPEV NIO LI 9868-HK 2015-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Li Auto warned that “supply chain constraint” would mean the company will deliver fewer cars than expected in the third quarter. Meanwhile, China has extended a tax exemption for new energy vehicles until the end of 2023 as it looks to
The husband of OIympic gold medallist Tom Daley has revealed he recently suffered a “serious head injury” and was advised to “shut off my brain” in order to recover. Dustin Lance Black, a US screenwriter, said it had been a “challenging, frightening time” but he was on the “long road back” to being well. Black
The market turmoil caused by Friday’s seismic mini-budget has hit mortgage offerings as providers withdrew partial and entire lending ranges. Virgin Money and Skipton Building Society have temporarily withdrawn their entire mortgage product range, while Halifax, the country’s largest mortgage lender, said it is to remove fee-paying mortgages. Fee-paying mortgages allow borrowers to pay a
New satellite images showing large numbers of Russians fleeing to Georgia and Mongolia have been released after Vladimir Putin’s order to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists for the conflict in Ukraine. The images show queues of vehicles – cargo trucks and cars – waiting in long traffic jams attempting to get over the borders.
In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a silhouetted woman holds a smartphone with the Meta Platforms, Inc. logo displayed on the screen. Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Meta said Monday it’s testing new features intended to help people easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts
The actor behind the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader has signalled that he will be stepping away from the role – but has licensed the use of his voice for future productions. James Earl Jones first voiced Darth Vader in the original 1977 Star Wars movie and went on to perform in The
The Queen’s coffin will be taken in a procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where she will lie in state for four days. Sky’s Jane Secker takes a look at her procession journey.
Sir Keir Starmer will claim a “changed” Labour can turn the UK into a “growth superpower” in his keynote conference speech – as a new poll gave the party its largest lead over the Conservatives in more than two decades. The Labour leader will tell party delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday that Labour’s Green Prosperity
India’s Mars orbiter craft has completed eight years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. Plans on a follow-on ‘Mangalyaan’ mission to the Red Planet, however, are yet to be firmed up. The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) – a technology demonstration venture – is the maiden interplanetary mission of the
Ten months after launch, NASA’s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world’s first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth. The cube-shaped “impactor” vehicle, roughly the size of a vending machine with two rectangular solar arrays, was on course to
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the UK government is putting the economy in danger and attacked Prime Minister Liz Truss’s plan of “trickle-down economics” after the pound sank to a record low against the dollar. Sterling slipped to a low of $1.0327 on Monday, before stabilising at around $1.07, following lows seen after
Tropical storm Ian has strengthened into a hurricane set to unleash significant winds, flash floods and mudslides in Florida, Cuba and Jamaica, weather experts have warned. The weather system is about 90 miles (150km) southwest of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean Sea, according to the latest advisory issued by the National Hurricane Centre (NHC)
An investigation into a death threat made to JK Rowling over her support of author Salman Rushdie has been dropped by police. Police Scotland said as the threat was not made within the UK, there will be “no further police action at this time”. After hearing about the attack on Sir Salman on 12 August,