Two-thirds of hospitality businesses are planning to cut jobs as a result of “suffocating” costs imposed by government, as new business rates and higher wage bills come into force. Many pubs, restaurants and hotel companies will see their costs increase significantly from 1 April after Rachel Reeves’s changes to business rates and an increase in…
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0 claims checkedScientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on…
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 – particularly the 2.3.4.4b lineage – has transformed the global disease landscape over recent years. What was once largely a poultry disease causing…
US exempts Gulf of Mexico oil drillers from endangered species protections The Trump administration says protections would diminish US energy competitiveness amid the ongoing war on Iran. A committee…
EU warns oil and gas prices will not quickly return to normal after Iran war ends EU warns oil and gas prices won’t quickly return to normal after Iran war The EU’s energy commissioner has warned oil…
Judge orders suspension of Trump's White House ballroom construction A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of a $400 million White House ballroom after…
Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said the crews of two US army AH-64 Apache helicopters that hovered next to the singer Kid Rock’s swimming pool while he clapped and saluted on Saturday are no longer…
Woods to 'step away and seek treatment' after crash - Published Tiger Woods says he is "stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health" following an arrest after a car…
'You're no longer my sister' - rows erupt as war divides Iranian families "He said to her: 'You're no longer my sister', and she told him to go to hell." This argument between a man and his sister in…