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OPEC excludes some WSJ, Reuters and Bloomberg reporters from meeting

The logo of the OPEC is pictured at the OPEC headquarters on October 4, 2022. In October last year, the oil cartel announced its...

Business

‘Storm clouds gathering’ for property market amid biggest annual fall in house prices for nearly 14 years

House prices fell by 3.4% year-on-year in May – the biggest annual fall in nearly 14 years, according to one of the UK’s biggest mortgage...

Politics

Labour MP Geraint Davies suspended over ‘serious allegations of unacceptable behaviour’

Labour MP Geraint Davies has been “administratively suspended” from the party pending an investigation into reports of “incredibly serious allegations of completely unacceptable behaviour”....

Business

Profits slump at Dr Martens despite £1bn revenue milestone

Dr Martens has reported a slump in profits despite hitting a £1bn revenue milestone for the first time – after admitting it made mistakes...

COVID inquiry: Government seeks judicial review over order to hand over Boris Johnson WhatsApp messages

The Cabinet Office is seeking a judicial review of Baroness Hallett’s order to release Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages, diaries and notebooks, it confirmed in...

World

‘I’m scared’: What it’s like to be LGBTQ+ in a country where you could be killed

New anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been passed in Uganda, expanding on rules which already criminalised same-sex acts and carried a maximum penalty of life imprisonment....

World

Kim Jong Un’s sister vows North Korea will succeed in launching spy satellite

Kim Jong Un’s sister has vowed North Korea will be successful in its efforts to launch a spy satellite – after its most recent...

World

Sherpa guides rescue freezing climber from Everest ‘death zone’ in ‘almost impossible’ mission

A Malaysian climber was saved from the “death zone” of Mount Everest by Nepali Sherpa guides and another climber. Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding...

Sports

Power surge: Ohtani, Trout electrify L.A. with HRs

ESPN News Services May 31, 2023, 07:21 PM ET CHICAGO — Shohei Ohtani homered in consecutive innings, including a 459-foot shot that is his...

Crunch deal to raise US debt ceiling passes through House of Representatives

A crunch deal to raise the US debt ceiling has been voted through by the House of Representatives. The agreement – which aims to...

TV star Danny Masterson found guilty of two counts of rape

US TV star Danny Masterson has been found guilty of two counts of rape. The actor, 47, faced accusations by three women that he...

Environment

Thousands of NHS contractors face missing out on pay rise – despite working on same terms

Thousands of staff contracted by the NHS could miss out on the recently negotiated pay rise that more than one million health workers will...

Sports

A day that will rock baseball — and the rest of sports? What’s next in the RSN battle

May 31, 2023, 12:57 PM ET This week could turn out to be a major turning point in Diamond Sports Group’s bankruptcy proceedings, one...

Sports

How can you watch the Padres? What you need to know about MLB’s TV takeover

Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterMay 31, 2023, 01:36 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018...

Environment

Bereaved parents whose children took own lives demand more access to content they were exposed to online

Bereaved parents of children who took their own lives want authorities to take online histories into account when determining their cause of death. The...

Environment

Boy, 17, and girl, 12, die after incident off Bournemouth beach

A 17-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl have died following an incident off Bournemouth beach. Dorset Police said an investigation has been launched and...

Boy, 17, and girl, 12, die after incident off Bournemouth beach

A 17-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl have died following an incident off Bournemouth beach. Dorset Police said an investigation has been launched and...

What did we learn from NASA’s first ever public meeting on UFOs?

NASA has held its first public meeting on UFOs, a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings. The space agency televised the four-hour-long...

Environment

OPEC+’s mixed messages, recession fears make it too early to buy the dip on our oil stocks

A slide in crude oil prices has weighed on the Club’s three energy holdings. But given the uncertainty around OPEC+’s output policy ahead of...

Business

Amazon to pay millions to settle Alexa and Ring doorbell privacy claims

Amazon and a subsidiary have agreed to pay millions to settle two separate privacy cases against its Alexa and Ring doorbell devices. Both cases...