Tory ex-minister Michael Gove trolls Liz Truss with tweet about ‘strong leadership … funding pressures and support for the vulnerable’ shortly after PM delivers tax cut U-turn and explains why she sacked Kwasi Kwarteng Gove posted an image from a visit to a school in his Surrey constituency  Praise teachers for ‘providing strong leadership for […]

HONG KONG (AP) — A pink diamond was sold for $57.7 million in Hong Kong on Oct. 7, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, fetched close to $5.2 million per carat, exceeding the previous record […]

The Internal Revenue Service is sending letters to more than 9 million households who are potentially eligible for tax benefits but haven’t filed a 2021 return to claim them. Those benefits include last year’s stimulus checks, the enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC), and the expanded Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), depending on their family situation, […]

Child holding a man’s hand is among group of migrants brought into Dover by Border Force escort on another day of Channel crossings Scores of migrants were spotted being brought ashore in Kent this morning A little girl was seen clinging to her father’s hand as they stepped on land An inflatable dinghy believed to […]

Junior doctor, 27, killed when his car swerved into oncoming traffic may have fallen asleep at wheel after nightshift, inquest hears Junior doctor Jyothis Manalayil, 27, died in a car crash following a nightshift  He had been travelling from Lancaster Royal Infirmary to Royal Victoria Hospital   The doctor had finished a nightshift and was on […]

DESPERATE Vladimir Putin is using press gangs to snatch reluctant army recruits off the street and drag them to war in Ukraine. “Conscript-catchers” launched raids in Moscow and St Petersburg to hunt draft dodgers and even grounded a holiday flight to haul off the co-pilot. Teams of agents backed by sinister FSB agents have been […]

A dystopian nightmare in the desert? Mohammed Bin Salman’s trillion-dollar megacity Neom promises to be a futuristic paradise with a 100-mile long skyscraper… but SHIVALI BEST finds there is a darker side to his vision It bills itself as a futuristic megatropolis where residents will live in a 110-mile long skyscraper, a floating city and […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile and hundreds of artillery shells toward the sea Friday and flew warplanes near the tense border with South Korea, further raising animosities triggered by the North’s recent barrage of weapons tests. The North Korean moves suggest it is reviving an old playbook of stoking […]

Boss falsely accused his business partner of being a paedophile and posted negative TripAdvisor reviews about Michelin-starred chef when their Belgravia Indian restaurant went bust Ex-director falsely accused partner of being paedophile as restaurant went bust  Ansarul Alom, 36, was business partner with Saket Shrivasta at Indian restaurant Michelin-starred head Chef Peter Joseph also harrassed by […]

George Alagiah says bowel cancer has ‘found a way through the drugs’ but is still ‘hopeful’ after fighting the disease for eight years as he admits he has presented BBC News ‘in extreme pain’ George Alagiah, 66, was first diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in 2014 The presenter is taking a break from BBC’s […]