The average price paid for comprehensive motor insurance rose 1% in the first quarter of the year, according to industry data indicating an easing in the steep rises seen last year. The latest tracker issued by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) showed a 1% increase on the previous three months to £635. That was
An aid group is to resume its work in Gaza four weeks after suspending operations following the killing of seven workers. World Central Kitchen (WCK) says it will resume operations in the besieged strip on Monday, delivering food to “address widespread hunger”, including in the north. It comes following the killing of the WCK workers
The UK will not to take back asylum seekers who cross the border into Ireland “until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France”, according to a government source. The comment comes amid an escalating row between Dublin and Westminster over the Irish government’s plans for new legislation to enable asylum seekers
Block Inc logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions from designing chips to developing a full bitcoin mining system. In a post on Tuesday, the global tech firm announced that it
Despite blockbuster earnings from giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft, layoffs continue to ripple through the tech industry. Layoffs.fyi, a platform monitoring job cuts in the tech sector, recorded more than 263,000 job losses in 2023 alone. As of April, there have been more than 75,000 job losses in the industry so far in 2024.
One of the UK’s leading road and rail logistics companies, Maritime Transport, is making some big moves in a bid to electrify its trucking fleet – with fully 18 all-electric, three axle tractor units from Scania leading the charge. As part of the UK’s Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) program, Maritime Transport has put
Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterApr 27, 2024, 07:15 PM ET Close Previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma University for the Oklahoman. Open Extended Reactions The 2024 NFL draft had everything: a historic run on offensive players, an even more historic run on quarterbacks, moms blocking their sons’ girlfriends
More human remains have been found in two locations as part of an investigation that started when a man’s torso was discovered in Salford. Police believe the torso belongs to a man in his 60s and have informed his family about his death, but have not yet identified him publicly. In a news conference today,
A Russian man has been arrested after two Ukrainian men were stabbed to death in southern Germany. The two Ukrainians were killed at a shopping centre in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. They were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Shortly after the killings on
The number of migrants that have crossed the Channel in small boats is at its highest ever level for the first four months of the year. Some 7,167 people have arrived on UK shores after travelling by small boat from the continent between 1 January to 27 April. This compares to 5,745 for the same
Blackstone, the American private equity behemoth, is this weekend finalising a revised offer to buy the company which owns the music catalogues of Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sky News has learnt that Blackstone is preparing to lodge an improved bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) as early as Monday. Its offer will
In this article CVX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gas pumps are seen at a Chevron gas station in Orlando. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Chevron beat earnings expectations Friday, but its profit fell from the year-ago period as its refineries and international gas business faced headwinds. The oil
Ireland is pledging emergency legislation enabling it to send asylum seekers back to the UK. More than 80% of recent arrivals in the republic came via the land border with Northern Ireland, Irish justice minister Helen McEntee told a parliamentary committee last week. Rishi Sunak told Sky News it showed the UK’s Rwanda scheme was
Image by FirstElement Fuels. FirstElement Fuels has opened the world’s first large-scale hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty commercial trucks just outside the Port of Oakland. FirstElement is calling their new filling station, which opened to the public this week for tours and demonstrations, the first of its kind. Located near the Port of Oakland, the
US President Joe Biden has delivered an election-year roasting of his rival Donald Trump, criticising his immaturity. Speaking at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night, the 81-year-old responded to concerns that he is too old for a second presidential term. “Yes, age is an issue – I’m a grown man running
Rishi Sunak has failed to rule out holding a general election in July, as speculation remains rife over the timing of the national vote. The prime minister has repeatedly said his “working assumption” is the election would take place in the second half of this year – with the law stating January 2025 is the
ARK Invest’s chief futurist lists five groups that should give tech investors an edge. According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-omics sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they’re all entering the marketplace at the same time. “We believe that this is a unique time in technological economic history,” he told
A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic will be auctioned on Saturday. John Jacob Astor, 47, went down with the ship in 1912 after helping his wife on to a lifeboat. Rather than try his luck with another lifeboat, the impeccably dressed businessman, a prominent
Hamas has released a new video that appears to show two hostages who have been held in Gaza since the 7 October assault on southern Israel. The two men, Keith Siegel, 64, and Omri Miran, 47, speak in the video against an empty background, sending their love to relatives and asking to be released. The
The lawyer for Harvey Weinstein says the former film producer has been taken to hospital following his return to a New York jail. It comes days after the movie mogul’s 2020 conviction for rape was overturned, with a New York court ordering a new trial in the landmark “MeToo” case. Arthur Aidala, Weinstein’s lawyer, said