High-altitude spying marks new low for US-China ties
Reuters Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden smiled for the cameras at the G20 summit in November Even before America’s top diplomat Anthony Blinken postponed his visit to Beijing, the US-China relationship was at an all-time low. Just how low became painfully evident when a day before his departure, an apparent Chinese spy balloon over […]
Chappell Roan to headline Reading and Leeds festival
Getty Images Singer Chappell Roan and rapper Travis Scott will headline Reading and Leeds festival next year. Metal band Bring Me The Horizon and singer-songwriter Hozier will also top the bill at both events over the August bank holiday weekend. Pink Pony Club singer Chappell Roan has exploded in popularity this year off the back […]
Michel Barnier: Macron to name new French PM in coming days after government collapses
Parties divided over who should be next PMpublished at 17:20 Greenwich Mean Time 17:20 GMT Laura GozziEurope reporter Already today, many potential names have been floated by the media speculating who could succeed Barnier. Among them are Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau and François Bayrou, the former centrist presidential candidate. Some of […]
Scots Tories against fishing policy extension
BBC Douglas Ross said his fellow Scottish Tories MPs could not back any extension to the Common Fisheries Policy Scottish Conservatives could vote down a Brexit deal if it included extending the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The policy sets out fishing rules across the EU to manage fish stocks and fleets by setting quotas. Moray […]
Sweden’s surprising rule for time off
Alamy Stock Photo Sweden has a unique system of granting workers leave to allow them to potentially launch a new business as entrepreneurs (Credit: Alamy Stock Photo) The country’s unique leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business. Can it be replicated elsewhere? Jana Cagin had never thought about running her own company […]
Netball has ‘nothing to hide’ over lack of drug testing
The FA and RFU “bolster” testing from Ukad with their own funding, while the ECB covered the full cost of testing between 2013 and 2017 when no “public interest” testing – financed by the national agency – was available to them. Ukad said the design of its “intelligence-led” programme funds testing when there is a […]
Charity warns some Scots face winter eat-or-heat crisis
Getty Images Some people in Scotland will face a choice of heating their homes or eating this winter, a charity has warned. Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) called for targeted help for those at risk of “freezing or starving”, such as council tenants and people without work. It blamed a “toxic cocktail” of soaring energy bills, […]
Belarus threatens to cut off gas to EU in border row
Reuters Thousands of people are stranded in freezing conditions at the Belarusian-Polish border Belarus’s leader has threatened to cut off gas supplies to Europe if sanctions are imposed over an escalating migrant crisis at the country’s western border. Thousands of people, mostly from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, are at the border with Poland, enduring freezing […]
Mariéme Jamme
Piero Zagami and Michela Nicchiotti The woman building an army of female coders, one line at a time. Founder of iamtheCODE Mariéme Jamme is on a mission: training an army of women – one million in fact – to code by 2030. Her organisation gives women equal opportunities in tech through digital clubs, public “hackathons” […]
EasyJet admits data of nine million hacked
Reuters EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers. It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit and debit card details “accessed”. The firm has informed the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office while it investigates the breach. EasyJet first […]