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Eurovision: Next year’s song contest to be held in Liverpool, BBC announces

Liverpool will host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the BBC has announced. It beat off Glasgow to win the chance to host the show,...

How Nazanin is using her freedom to fight for those still being oppressed by the Iranian regime

I first met Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shortly after she was released from prison in Iran and reunited with her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella. We...

Entire police department at centre of Texas school shooting suspended

The school district at the centre of the mass shooting at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, has suspended its entire police force. Following...

Environment

Ron Insana: It’s time to use an ‘all of the above’ energy policy to break up the OPEC+ cartel

An Austrian soldier guards the entrance to the OPEC headquarters on October 4, 2022 on the eve of the 45th Meeting of the Joint...

Technology

Why this investor doesn’t back companies that use carbon offsets

Zachary Bogue, co-managing partner for DCVC, speaks during the Future of Innovation: Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday,...

Business

Kwarteng rules out wholesale reforms to bank ‘firewall’ regime

Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, has ruled out tearing up the regime put in place to segregate high street lenders’ investment banking arms that was...

Business

BoE rate-setter’s vow on inflation fails to help stricken pound for long

The pound’s value ebbed and flowed on Friday – supported by a Bank of England deputy governor’s vow to persist in the fight against...

Politics

Tory minister Conor Burns sacked with ‘immediate effect’ after complaint of serious misconduct

Liz Truss has sacked trade minister Conor Burns from her government “with immediate effect” following an allegation of serious misconduct. The Tory MP for...

Technology

AMD shares fall more than 13% on weak outlook, dragging other chipmakers down

Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), holds a 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processor while speaking during a keynote...

World

Putting nuclear weapons to use risks escalation, impossible to control and potentially catastrophic | Diana Magnay

The US president is hardly unique in saying the risk of a nuclear “Armageddon” is higher now than it has been since the Cuban...

World

Nobel Peace Prize: Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine honoured

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ales Bialiatski, a human rights activist in prison in Belarus, the Russian campaign group Memorial and...

World

Thailand mourns after nursery school children killed in shooting rampage

Distraught families in Thailand have been mourning the deaths of 36 people – including dozens of nursery school children – murdered by a sacked...

World

Thailand survivor’s mum says she fainted when she saw nursery horror as son stabbed in the head and shot twice

At Udon Thani hospital, we witness an unbearable procession of grief. We’re standing by a narrow road as a convoy of vehicles arrive. Inside,...

Technology

Here’s what Musk’s potential takeover of Twitter could mean for Trump

Elon Musk’s renewed efforts to buy Twitter could pave the way for President Donald Trump‘s return to the platform that permanently banned him a...

Science

NASA-Funded Tech for Future Missions May Charge EVs in 5 Minutes on Earth

A new NASA-funded technology for future space missions may charge an electric car in just five minutes on Earth, paving the way for increased...

Business

Company insolvencies at highest level since 2009 as energy bills bite

The number of company insolvencies in England and Wales hit its highest level for 13 years in the second quarter of the year, according...

Sports

Lapsed fan’s guide to 2022-23 NHL season: Trades, signings, hirings and more you missed this offseason

7:00 AM ET When the This season will include 103 exclusive regular-season games across ESPN, ESPN+, Hulu and ABC. More than 1,000 out-of-market games...

Sports

Atlantic Uprising: Can the Red Wings, Sabres, Senators make the playoffs?

7:05 AM ET Fall is a season of renewal for hockey players. In the NHL, the calendar shift is a mindset switch. Crisper air...

Iran protests ‘bring back memories’ of helplessness of six years in prison, says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says “the world cannot turn a blind eye to Iran” and the UK government “must act” over human rights abuses, as women...

Politics

‘We plan for all eventualities’: Minister fails to rule out energy rationing this winter

A government minister has failed to rule out energy rationing across the UK this winter after warnings three-hour power blackouts could be imposed. Asked...