British police said on Wednesday they had opened an investigation into corporate manslaughter at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby, who murdered seven babies, had worked. Letby, 33, Britain’s most prolific serial child killer of modern times, was convicted in August of killing five baby boys and two baby girls at the Countess of Chester hospital in…
Britain’s GB News channel sacked actor-turned-political activist Laurence Fox on Wednesday after it said comments he made about a female journalist on air were “completely unacceptable”. The 45-year-old member of Britain’s Fox acting dynasty was a guest on presenter Dan Wootton’s evening show last month when he made demeaning sexual remarks about journalist Ava Evans….
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Wednesday that he would cut taxes once inflation was under control, following mounting concerns from Conservative Party members about a rise in tax levels since the COVID-19 pandemic. “I know you want tax cuts. I want them too and we will deliver them. But the best tax cut…
Italian authorities were investigating on Wednesday the cause of the horrific crash of a bus carrying foreign tourists on the outskirts of Venice which killed 21 people including several children and injured 15 others. The electric bus crashed through the guardrail and off an overpass late on Tuesday in the Mestre district, slamming into the…
Russia tested its emergency public warning systems across the country on Wednesday, blaring out sirens and interrupting some television and radio broadcasts to warn the population to stay calm. The test, first conducted in 2020, is part of a new initiative that requires authorities to conduct tests twice a year, starting from Sept. 1. It…
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt attacked what he called the “utterly unacceptable” cost of Britain’s HS2 high-speed railway on Tuesday after his boss, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, said he was considering whether or not to go ahead with the project. At the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester, one of the destinations for the second…
British online fashion retailer Boohoo (BOOH.L) slid to a loss after revenue fell 17% in its first-half and said a slower than expected recovery in sales volumes could result in little or no top-line improvement for the full year, hitting its shares. The stock plunged 10% in early deals on the downgrade, sinking to their lowest level…
Prices in British store chains rose at the slowest pace in a year in September, according to industry data that adds to signs that the UK’s high inflation rate is set to extend its recent fall. The British Retail Consortium said annual shop price inflation cooled to 6.2% last month from 6.9% in August, its…
Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman warned on Tuesday that the United Kingdom had become tied up in an international set of migration rules that were designed for another era. “Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era,” Braverman said in a speech at the Conservative…
Britain’s government is optimistic it will soon find a formula to persuade Northern Ireland’s largest pro-British party to return to the power-sharing regional government it quit over Brexit rules, the Northern Ireland minister said on Tuesday. Asked if he could see the Democratic Unionist Party returning to the Stormont regional assembly in Belfast, Chris Heaton-Harris…
