The Tory MP Geoffrey Cox has been missing parliamentary votes and sitting days while working at his lucrative second job as a lawyer in Mauritius, the Guardian can reveal. The former attorney general, who has declared at least £500,000 in pay from his second job this year, was on the Indian Ocean island for at…
Cameroonian authorities have banned discussions about the health of the president, Paul Biya, after the latest round of speculation about his prolonged failure to appear in public. In a 9 October letter to regional governors, the interior minister, Paul Atanga Nji, said discussing the 91-year-old president’s health was a matter of national security and “any…
The boss of the Post Office has admitted his various attempts to double his pay look “very poor” given so many branch owner-operators are still awaiting compensation over Horizon IT failings. Nevertheless, speaking to the judge-led inquiry into the scandal on Friday, Nick Read denied ever threatening to resign over his remuneration. Jason Beer KC,…
Dramatic pictures have emerged of the first floods in the Sahara in half a century. Two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas of south-east Morocco and caused a deluge, officials of the country’s meteorology agency said in early October. In Tagounite, a village about 450km(280 miles) south of the capital,…
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has become an investor in online retailer THG as part of a near-£100m fundraising to spin off the lossmaking technology arm Ingenuity. Frasers, which owns Sports Direct, Evans Cycles, the House of Fraser department stores, the luxury streetwear chain Flannels and multiple brands from Slazenger to Jack Wills, has made a…
Queensland Labor has accused the opposition of walking away from the emissions reduction target legislation it backed six months ago, after Liberal National party leader David Crisafulli declared a plan to end coal energy by the early 2030s is “fanciful”. The LNP voted for the state’s nation-leading carbon reduction target in April, but opposed Labor’s…
CEO of Chase Jamie Dimon looks on as he attends the seventh “Choose France Summit”, aiming to attract foreign investors to the country, at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, on May 13, 2024. Lucovic Marin | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings before the opening bell Friday. Here’s what Wall…
A woman has been taken to hospital after her arm was severed in a vicious dog attack in north Queensland. Emergency services were called to reports of a dog mauling at a Lonerganne Street property in Garbutt, a suburb of Townsville, just after 7am on Friday. A woman in her 30s sustained significant injuries to…
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A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun as she passes past the Colosseum during an intensely hot day in Rome, Italy, on July 11, 2024. Riccardo De Luca | Anadolu | Getty Images Summer trips to Europe are getting too hot for thousands of tourists. Delta Air Lines president Glen Hauenstein…
