A senior manager at the Hinkley nuclear power plant accepted bribes such as an £11,000 quad bike to funnel extra work to a British engineering firm, an employment tribunal has heard. Ashley Daniels was investigated by Hinkley’s owner, EDF, after he was given gifts such as £2,000 hospitality tickets for a boxing match and a … Read more
The Republican US senator and Donald Trump loyalist Markwayne Mullin has evidently sought to backtrack from comments suggesting politicians could “handle our differences” with journalists by shooting and killing them, insisting he was trying to make a joke. The Oklahoma lawmaker, a former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, on Saturday posted to X a video … Read more
Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented with the aid of a simple £5 blood test, research suggests. Checking levels of troponin in patients could enable doctors to predict their risk of cardiovascular events with much greater accuracy, according to a study funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and published in the … Read more
Stock markets continued to fall sharply around the world on Monday as Donald Trump defied stark warnings that his global trade assault will wreak widespread economic damage, comparing new US tariffs to medicine. On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 dropped a further 3.5% – entering bear market territory after falling more than 20% from … Read more
An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire. Images and video from the courtyard of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis showed people desperately attempting to extinguish the fires … Read more
Europe’s first research station for the study of Atlantic temperate rainforest is set to be built beside an ancient wood in Cornwall. The Thousand Year Trust charity is crowdfunding an initial amount to build the £750,000 facility, which will enable students and academics to study this historically overlooked but biodiverse natural habitat. The research station, … Read more
JP Morgan’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has warned that it may be “hard to reverse” the effect of Donald Trump’s tariffs, which he said would drive prices higher and make a US recession more likely. The boss of the US bank said in his annual letter to investors that while there were some “legitimate reasons” … Read more
Donald Trump supporter and billionaire fund manager Bill Ackman has said the president is losing the confidence of business leaders and should pause his trade war – which could cause an economic collapse while damaging his supporters the most. “The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out,” Ackman said Sunday in a … Read more
At least 250 people who were detained at Manston migrant centre during a period when it was dangerously overcrowded and grappling with outbreaks of infectious diseases are suing the government for unlawful detention and other breaches of their rights. They include a woman who had a miscarriage, a child whose age was recorded as five … Read more
The actor John Lithgow has described Donald Trump’s second presidency as “a pure disaster” for the arts in the US. Lithgow, speaking after his best actor victory at the Olivier awards in London on Sunday, singled out Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center, Washington DC’s national institution for the performing arts. “Our administration has done … Read more