The national living wage will rise to £11.44 per hour from April. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced he is accepting the recommendation from the Low Pay Commission – an increase of £1.02 from the current rate of £10.42. The national living wage is the minimum people aged 21 and over must be paid for their
A Eurovision winner who has been added to Russia’s wanted list says the Kremlin is lying about her and trying to “scare” her – as she voiced fears for her family’s safety. Ukrainian singer Susana Jamaladinova – who performs under the name Jamala and won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 – is accused by
Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group David A. Grogan | CNBC After months on the market, crypto news site CoinDesk has finally been acquired by a business that’s run by the former president of the New York Stock Exchange. Bullish, a digital asset exchange led by ex-NYSE chief Tom Farley, has purchased CoinDesk
Governments plan to double renewable capacity by 2030, and tripling is within sight, according to a newly released report. Many countries are already on track to exceed their national targets, and more ambition is achievable to bring a tripling of global renewables within reach, according to an analysis of national targets by energy think tank Ember. The
Four bodies recovered in the search for missing teenagers in North Wales were found in a car that was on its roof and partially submerged in water, police have said. Officers had been looking for Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris, who were missing since Sunday morning. North Wales Police said their
Police who investigated the disappearance of Nicola Bulley from beside a riverbank have been heavily criticised in a damning report. Lancashire Police’s decision to reveal the mother-of-two’s mental health issues was condemned as “avoidable and unnecessary”. Senior officers were also criticised for their initial failure to help her family, first by not appointing family liaison
Israel’s government has agreed to back a deal with Hamas for the release of some hostages in Gaza and a temporary pause in the fighting. The agreement involves swapping the hostages for Palestinian prisoners being detained in Israel. The prime minister’s office said the deal involves the release of 50 women and children being held
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Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has sued the watchdog group Media Matters alleging it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist content. Major US companies including Disney, Warner Bros and Sky News’ parent company Comcast pulled advertising from X over concerns about their ads showing up next to hate speech
Rapper A$AP Rocky must stand trial on allegations he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021, a Los Angeles judge has ruled. Superior Court Judge ML Villar found there is enough evidence for the hip-hop star to stand trial after hearing roughly a day and a half
Gas prices at a Chevron gas station in Newhall, CA. Monday, September 18, 2023. The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Los Angeles County rose 4.8 cents today to $5.915, a day after increasing 13.6 cents. The average price has risen 52 times in the last 57 days, increasing 94.3 cents, according
In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Shares of Nvidia closed up 2.3%
Last week, I got the invite from Audi to venture to (normally) sunny Los Angeles and take a spin behind the wheel of its latest EV model – the SQ8 e-tron. Available as a standard quattro and Sportback version, the tri-motor SQ8 takes the previously launched Q8 e-tron and refines it in a number of
Joe Biden got Britney Spears muddled up with Taylor Swift in his latest gaffe in front of reporters. The US president, who turned 81 today, was in the middle of pardoning two turkeys – Liberty and Bell – in the White House’s annual ceremony before the Thanksgiving holiday when he used the name Britney in
The annual shopping event that many retailers, and us bargain-hunters, look forward to is almost upon us but a consumer group has warned that deals should be “taken with a pinch of salt”. According to research by the consumer group Which?, just 2% of discounted Black Friday offers were at their cheapest price on the
We’re only in Week 2, but it’s never too early to start thinking about which teams have the best chance to make the playoff. And this week gifts fans with one of the best matchups of the entire season — one that should have playoff implications for months — as Texas travels to Alabama. Who
Yemen’s Houthis rebels have released a video showing armed men seizing a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea. The video from Yemeni Military Media shows at least seven masked men, carrying what appears to be AK-47s, drop from a helicopter and land on the top deck of the ship. Israel-Gaza live updates The video
Professor Sir Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, will be the latest high-profile figure to reveal his first-hand experience of the COVID pandemic when he gives evidence to the inquiry later today. Sir Chris became a household name alongside the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, when the pair appeared alongside politicians at the daily
There’s a makeshift shrine like none other outside the Ayoub family home in southern Lebanon. Underneath a large picture of three little girls and their grandmother is a bright pink and white wreath of flowers. But there are also black charred children’s shoes, a singed pencil case and blackened schoolbooks, with the edges of each
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 17, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Hundreds of OpenAI employees, including co-founder and board member Ilya Sutskever, have signed a