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Cost of living: Sainsbury’s shields shoppers from some rising costs as profits dip

Sainsbury’s has claimed to be passing on rising costs to shoppers at a slower rate than its competitors, saying its decision is partly responsible...

Business

BT warns of job cuts as it dials in £500m of additional cost savings

BT has warned that jobs are likely to be lost after raising its cost savings target from £2.5bn to £3bn by the end of...

Economy is almost certainly in recession and the picture ahead is murky

Let’s start with what we do know. The economy is now almost certainly in recession. It will not be pleasant. This is a recession...

Politics

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen should be suspended for threatening commissioner, Standards Committee recommends

A Tory MP should be suspended from the Commons for suggesting the commissioner’s potential peerage depended on ruling against him over lobbying breaches, the...

World

Imran Khan shot in leg in ‘assassination attempt’, former Pakistan prime minister’s supporters say

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been shot in the leg in what his supporters say was an assassination attempt. A gunman opened...

Politics

PM makes ‘screeching U-turn’ on attending COP27 – and all his campaign pledges are under review

Rishi Sunak has reversed his decision to skip the COP27 climate summit in Egypt next week – and all his campaign pledges are now...

Politics

All of Rishi Sunak’s campaign pledges from summer leadership race under review

All of Rishi Sunak’s campaign pledges from the summer leadership contest are under review. The prime minister’s official spokeswoman said that the pledges were...

Politics

‘Get a grip’: Keir Starmer blames Tories for ‘broken’ asylum system in PMQs clash

Sir Keir Starmer has told Rishi Sunak to “start governing for once and get a grip” as he blamed 12 years of Tory leadership...

Politics

‘We want to get a grip’: Minister ‘not happy’ over conditions at Manston migrant centre

A minister has admitted that the Manston asylum processing centre is not operating legally, telling Sky News the government wants to “get a grip”...

Environment

A submerged buoy-like device is harnessing the sea’s ‘epic amounts of energy’ in Scottish trial

The Waveswing wave energy converter photographed in Scapa Flow, Orkney. EMEC Sea-based trials of a wave energy converter weighing 50 metric tons have produced...

Environment

Op-ed: The U.S. and China should not miss a historic opportunity to save the world

US President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington,...

Interest rate rises to 3% as Bank of England imposes biggest hike for three decades

The Bank of England has raised the base rate of interest by 0.75 percentage points to 3% – the single biggest increase in more...

Sports

World Series Game 4: Astros in control down the stretch

9:52 PM ET ESPN staff The Philadelphia Phillies are coming off a game in which they absolutely hammered the Houston Astros to take a...

Sports

Syndergaard, Verlander to start Game 5 in Philly

8:04 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — The season will come full circle for Philadelphia Phillies starter Noah Syndergaard and Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander when...

Sports

First lady Biden joins cancer tribute at Game 4

10:59 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — First lady Jill Biden joined the Stand Up to Cancer tribute in the middle of the fifth...

Environment

Cost of living crisis: Bank of England set to increase interest rates to levels not seen since 2008

The Bank of England is expected to unveil the biggest interest rate rise since the 1980s today. A hike of 0.75 percentage points is...

Business

Cost of living crisis: Bank of England set to increase interest rates to levels not seen since 2008

The Bank of England is expected to unveil the biggest interest rate rise since the 1980s today. A hike of 0.75 percentage points is...

Technology

Twitter reportedly ready to cut about 3,700 employees

Elon Musk’s photo is seen through a Twitter logo in this illustration taken October 28, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Twitter employees are expecting...

Sports

QB Sayin commits to Alabama’s ‘NFL offense’

5:00 PM ET Quarterback Julian Sayin committed to Alabama on Wednesday. Sayin, No. 34 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300 and the second-best dual-threat...

Sports

‘Giving him the business’: College football’s most iconic call

7:15 AM ET “You’re a football ref, an ordinary man, 60, 65 years old. You’re not making the big millions like the football players,...