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Labour promises to end use of hotels for asylum seekers and clear case backlog

Labour has promised to end the use of hotels for asylum seekers if it gets into power at the next election. Outlining its latest...

Gatwick Airport flights cancelled, delayed or diverted due to staff shortages in air traffic control

More than 20 flights have been cancelled, with others delayed or diverted because of a lack of staff in air traffic control at Gatwick...

The Streets’ Mike Skinner on his film debut The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light: ‘It’s been a nightmare – an obsession’

You’re listening to The Streets, Mike Skinner told us back in 2001. Back then he was launching Original Pirate Material, the era-defining debut album...

Business

Shares in UK-based Arm Holdings soar on Nasdaq debut

Shares in UK-based chip designer Arm Holdings have soared after the firm made its Nasdaq debut on Thursday. The firm’s stock opened at $56.1...

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, indicted on federal gun charges

Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, has been indicted on three federal firearms-related charges, according to a court filing. It came...

World

Libya floods: People in Derna use bare hands to dig for survivors – but find only remains

Libya is a country in anguish. Her people are suffering a fresh kind of horror after years of civil war, fighting, corruption, greed and...

Technology

Arm climbs 25% in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO at $51 a share

Arm CEO Rene Haas and executives cheer as Softbank’s Arm, a chip design firm, holds an initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in...

Arm climbs 25% in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO at a share

World

Spain’s women footballers call off strike after deal reached in pay row

The players in Spain’s women’s football league have called off a strike after reaching a deal to increase their minimum wage. Last weekend’s first...

World

Australian multimillionaire Tim Gurner ‘deeply regrets’ comments on unemployment after backlash

An Australian multimillionaire says he “deeply regrets” his comments at a property summit where he said unemployment should jump by up to 50% to...

World

Stranded cruise ship the Ocean Explorer freed three days after running aground in Greenland

A luxury cruise ship has been freed after it ran aground in northwestern Greenland. The Ocean Explorer – which has 206 passengers on board...

World

Nigeria suffers from nationwide power outage after ‘total system collapse’

Nigeria has experienced a nationwide power outage after the country’s electrical grid collapsed. One of the West African nation’s electricity distribution companies – Enugu...

NASA appoints first UFO research director – but ‘no evidence’ any sightings have been alien in origin

NASA has appointed its first director of UFO research after an independent scientific panel said it should play a larger role in detecting them....

Business

European Central Bank increases interest rate for 10th time in a row – hitting a record high

The European Central Bank’s main interest rate has hit its highest level since the creation of the euro in 1999 amid the continuing battle...

Environment

Jim Cramer’s top 10 things to watch in the stock market Thursday

My top 10 things to watch Thursday, Sept. 14 1. U.S. equities edge up in premarket trading, with investors largely betting the Federal Reserve...

Environment

‘Extremely risky’: OPEC criticizes IEA forecast that fossil fuel demand will peak before 2030

A part of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System runs through boreal forest past Alaska Range mountains near Delta Junction, Alaska. In March, the Biden...

Politics

Labour says it would be open to EU migrants quota – sparking Tory criticism

Labour has confirmed it could accept a quota of migrants from the EU under a returns agreement it hopes to strike with the bloc...

Politics

Tories think Keir Starmer has made a strategic blunder – but the Labour leader is clearly up for a fight on migration

Labour has set out a major plank of its pre-election foreign and security policy which is worthy of close scrutiny – even though some...

School lockdowns: Person arrested after email threats in West Yorkshire cities of Leeds and Bradford

Police have made an arrest after emails “threatening violence to children and staff” were received by a number of schools in Leeds. West Yorkshire...

Politics

Rishi Sunak will not face sanction after confidentiality rules breach judged ‘inadvertent’

Rishi Sunak will not face a sanction for breaching confidentiality rules around the investigation into his original failure to declare his wife’s shares in...

Business

CBI members warn of new exodus amid manufacturing tie-up talks

Some of the CBI’s remaining members are warning that they will terminate their association with the crisis-hit lobbying group if it cements a full...