Joint US-Israel strikes on Iran – and a subsequent retaliation from Tehran – has caused widespread disruption on air travel. Whether it’s a man-made problem or a weather issue, flights are often prone to lengthy delays or cancellations. The average delay for flights from major UK airports was 18 minutes and 24 seconds in 2024,…
The economy is stagnating and job losses are mounting. Now is the time to cut interest rates again. That was the view of the Bank of England’s nine-member rate setting committee on Thursday. Well, at least five of them. The other four presented us with a different view: Inflation is above target and climbing –…
The chairman of Ocado Group has been recruited to the board of Visma, the European software company which is preparing one of the London stock market’s biggest debuts for years. Sky News has learnt that Adam Warby will become a non-executive director of Visma, with an announcement likely as early as Friday, according to banking…
Christmas came early for 69 high school football teams in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Thanks to donations by the Rams, each LAUSD program received a pallet of goodies this past week to navigate the 2026 season. Dave Siedelman, an assistant in the LAUSD athletics office, helped organize the challenge of delivering and bubble…
Election officials sort through ballots at a counting station for the local elections in Seoul on June 3, 2026. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP via Getty Images) Pedro Pardo | Afp | Getty Images South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has chosen Han Seongsook, the country’s minister for small and midsize businesses and startups,…
US President Donald Trump is expected to land in China this Wednesday ahead of a summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Trump is accompanied by a large delegation of US executives and has promised to ask Xi to “open up” the country to US business. In this edition, we explore what “opening up” means…
One of the hottest tickets for the events surrounding Super Bowl LX in February was a party thrown at the Cow Palace in San Francisco by Sports Illustrated, where attendees could hang with Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart and Travis Kelce. The magazineβs logo and a team of models from its latest annual swimsuit issue were…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Mexicoβs secretary of the economy, Marcelo Ebrard, urged βprudenceβ Friday in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating part of President Trumpβs sweeping tariff regimen. βWe have to see where this is going,β Ebrard told reporters. βWe have to see what measures [Washington] is going to take to figure out how it…
Bowen Yang, a fan-favorite cast member of βSaturday Night Live,β is expected to leave the series after this weekβs episode. Representatives for Yang and βSaturday Night Liveβ did not comment on the move Friday. There has been recent speculation about whether he would finish the current season of the show. He has appeared on the…
FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee speaks to Aisha Down, the Guardian’s AI correspondent, on why there may be more to the suspension of Anthropic’s “Fable 5” chatbot model and discuss whether there is a risk of a two-tier system for “haves and have nots”, with the chatbot programmed to judge overall trustworthiness and the nature of…