It’s becoming a common experience for Americans going to the grocery store: your bag of chips seems lighter, your favorite drink comes in a slimmer bottle, and you’re running out of laundry detergent more quickly than usual. And yet things are staying the same price. On Monday two Democratic lawmakers launched an attempt to get…
Keir Starmer has urged all sides to pull back from the brink in the Middle East as he addressed the House of Commons on the anniversary of the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel. With Israel yet to decide how to respond to Iran’s unprecedented missile strike last week, the prime minister said he…
The former Metropolitan police officer David Carrick has been charged with eight sexual offences against two women. Prosecutors announced on Monday that Carrick, 49, would face charges of rape, indecent assault and coercive control concerning two women, dating back to more than three decades ago when he was a teenager. The first set of charges…
Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell says Cleverly and Cameron would never have agreed this deal Andrew Mitchell, the shadow foreign secretary, says it is astonishing the government is giving away a military asset to a country than never had it before. He quotes approvingly what the Times said about the deal in an editorial. It…
A rescue deal for the UK arm of TGI Fridays has been struck, with two private equity groups to buy 51 restaurants – although a further 35 outlets are to close with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs. Calveton UK and Breal Capital, which own upmarket restaurants including Le Pont de la Tour, Quaglino’s…
A battleground county in north-eastern Pennsylvania will have ballot drop boxes this fall after its county manager faced pressure and reversed her decision to eliminate them. The announcement on Friday came less than a month after Romilda Crocamo, the county manager in Luzerne county, said she was getting rid of the county’s four drop boxes…
Tim Bradley quite rightly wonders why heat pumps are so expensive in the UK (Letters, 1 October). He can’t be alone. The simple answer surely must be price gouging, partly due to the heat pump grant. I received two quotes from the same supplier for the same house, one with a £5,000 grant and another…
A woman in Lincolnshire has had her application for her dream job as a stunt rider returned 48 years after applying for the role. Tizi Hodson, 70, from Gedney Hill, opened the post to find a letter she had sent applying for to be a motorcycle stunt rider in January 1976, with a note explaining…
Al Pacino has revealed he almost died from Covid-19 in 2020, saying he “didn’t have a pulse” for several minutes. In interviews with the New York Times and People magazine published on the weekend, the 84-year-old Godfather and Scarface actor detailed his experience with the virus, which he contracted in 2020 before a vaccine was…
A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel has run aground and sunk off Samoa, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday. Manawanui, the navy’s specialist dive and hydrographic vessel, ran aground near the southern coast of Upolu on Saturday night as it was conducting a reef survey, Commodore Shane Arndell, the maritime…
