MILANΒ βΒ Alysa Liu wore a hollow smile on the ice. She had achieved a dream, skating at the Beijing Olympics at just 16, but in a mostly empty arena, few were there to see the moment. Perhaps that was what Liu secretly wanted. βItβs not that I didnβt want to be seen,β Liu said. βItβs just…
John Healey, the defence secretary, has held urgent talks with the boss of Leonardo, the Italian defence contractor, amid fears for thousands of jobs at a military helicopter factory in Somerset. Sky News has learnt that Mr Healey met Roberto Cingolani, Leonardo’s chief executive, on Friday for talks about an ongoing tender process which could…
Glencore is in talks with rival Rio Tinto that could lead to merger and the creation of the world’s largest mining firm. Glencore issued a statement to the market soon after the Financial Times (FT) reported that discussions over a tie-up had resumed, almost a year after a previous round of talks broke down. There…
Telling her life story β naked onstage β was the only way. That much, Pamela Redmond was sure of. It was a sweltering July afternoon last year and Redmond was sitting on the sofa in her Hollywood home stewing over how AI was nearly putting her out of business. At 72, she had published 20…
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The Bank of England has held interest rates at 3.75% but signalled that further cuts are now “likely” later in the year as inflation falls back to the Bank’s 2% target faster than expected. In a narrow decision, five members of the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to maintain rates at the level set…
Theyβre bad. Theyβre really bad. Theyβre, like, 0-12 bad. The Bad News Bruins are a quarter of their way to completing a winless season, and whoβs to say they wonβt do what no UCLA team has done in more than a century and lose every game they play? New Mexico tight end Simon Mapa (85)…
As a court battle continued over whether President Trump can legally deploy the National Guard in Illinois, a brawl broke out Saturday night between protesters and state police at an immigration detention facility near Chicago. The protest, which had largely been a peaceful gathering of a few hundred people at the facility in Broadview, quickly…
June 19, 2026 β 12:51pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The founder of failed artificial intelligence start-up Metigy has been jailed for nine years for a sustained fraud that deceived investors out of $39 million and ended with him diverting…
The chancellor’s spring budget will take place in March, the Treasury has announced. Rachel Reeves will deliver the budget, known as the “spring forecast”, on 3 March 2026. She has asked the independent budget watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), to “prepare an economic and fiscal forecast” for publication on the same day. The…