NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has stepped down as chief executive effective immediately after she admitted to being the source of an inaccurate story about Nigel Farage’s bank account. Her four-year tenure as chief executive has ended in ignominy over her admission that she had discussed Mr Farage’s bank details with a BBC journalist. Howard
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet will report second-quarter earnings after the close of regular trading on Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting:
Last year’s multi record-breaking hot and dry weather will become “typical” in the UK in under 40 years, the Met Office has warned. The remarkable weather of last year – when almost every month was hotter than average, wildfires torched homes and more people died in the summer – was considered extreme. But by 2060
Rishi Sunak is planning to delay energy efficiency targets for rented homes following pressure from landlords about the cost of the improvements. The overhaul is part of a wider review of the government’s environmental policies, which some Tory MPs fear are too expensive and will hurt the party’s chances at the next general election. Politics
A 16-year-old boy from Swindon made quite the entrance at his school’s prom, after his mother surprised him by arranging a ride to the dance’s venue in a tank. Local media reported that Zack, who is diagnosed with Asperger’s, had a special interest in the military. #School #Prom #Swindon #Tank #Teenager #Son #Asbergers #Shorts SUBSCRIBE
A giant oarfish was spotted in shallow waters off the northeast coast of Taiwan. In Japanese legend the fish are said to beach themselves ahead of earthquakes or tsunamis, however, scientists dispute this. #seacreatures #raresighting #cnn
Tesla has officially settled a class-action lawsuit over a steep price hike on its solar roof that even affected signed contracts. Back in March 2021, Tesla added a new “roof complexity” factor to its solar roof prices that resulted in drastically increasing the price of its solar roof. The price of solar roof projects increased between
A view of decaying FSO Safer oil tanker anchored 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the port of Hudaydah, Yemen on July 15, 2023. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The UN has begun a 19-day operation to extract oil from a 47-year-old decaying supertanker as it seeks to end a race against
Mike Coppinger, ESPNJul 25, 2023, 10:54 AM ET Naoya Inoue isn’t simply the best boxer in the world — he’s an all-time great still adding chapters to his legendary career. “The Monster” continued his climb up the mythical all-time list with yet another see-it-to-believe-it performance, a pulverizing eighth-round TKO of Stephen Fulton on Tuesday in
NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has admitted she made a “serious error of judgement” when she discussed Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank accounts with the BBC business editor Simon Jack. Last week Dame Alison apologised to the former UKIP leader for the closure of his accounts and ordered an immediate review of the processes followed by
Twitter unveils X logo to replace Larry the bird. Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Elon Musk’s decision to change Twitter’s name to X represents his ambitions to create what he calls an “everything app.” “Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the
The UK government’s sanctions targeting Wagner have been “underwhelming in the extreme” and it should act faster to exploit the mercenary group’s current weakness, a new report has found. MPs on the foreign affairs committee say ministers have taken their eye off the ball over the last decade as Wagner expanded its reach across Syria,
ISRO on Tuesday successfully performed the fifth orbit-raising manoeuvre (Earth-bound perigee firing) of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft from the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) here. “The spacecraft is expected to attain an orbit of 127609 km X 236 km. The achieved orbit will be confirmed after the observations,” the national space agency headquartered here
US presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has been involved in a car crash. The Florida governor, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was involved in an accident in Tennessee on Tuesday but is uninjured, his spokesperson said. “This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga,
A five-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man have been found dead in a house in Leicester. The bodies were found at a property in Hopyard Close after police were called at 9pm on Monday 24 July. East Midlands Ambulance Service and the air ambulance also attended but both people were declared dead at the scene.
The BBC has admitted asking an “inappropriate” question about sexuality to the Moroccan captain at the Women’s World Cup. A journalist – reported to be from the BBC’s World Service – has faced criticism after quizzing Ghizlane Chebbak on whether there were any gay players in her squad, with same-sex relationships illegal in the north
As a record breaking heatwave ravages southern Europe, back in a drizzly United Kingdom another debate has fired up – the future of the government’s green agenda. Sparked by its narrow win in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election last week – a battle fought and won by the Conservatives’ opposition to London’s Ultra Low
Six men have been found guilty of murder over the 2016 Brussels terror attacks that left 32 people dead. The trial lasted seven months and was held in the former headquarters of NATO. Bombs exploded at Brussels Airport in March 2016 and then on a metro train passing through the city’s European quarter, in attacks
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First responders treated at least one person for “heat-related discomfort” in a Delta Airlines flight that experienced high temperatures while sitting on the tarmac at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport, the airline said. Flight 555, which was scheduled to fly from Las Vegas to Atlanta, was ultimately canceled. #cnn