It’s a go-to shop for cheap knickers and designer dupes, but now Primark hopes to become the top destination for clothing designed for those with a range of disabilities. In a first for the budget high street shop, it is releasing a 49-piece line of womenswear and menswear, adapted from its bestselling items to suit…
Lloyd’s Register, the maritime and industrial group owned by one of Britain’s biggest charities, has apologised for its role in the trafficking of enslaved African people but has been criticised for not going far enough. Founded in 1760 as the Society for the Registry of Shipping by merchants and underwriters who met at Edward Lloyd’s…
After enduring its worst drought on record in 2024, Brazil closed the year with another alarming milestone: between January and December, 30.86m hectares of wilderness burned – an area larger than Italy. The figure published in a new report is 79% higher than in 2023 and the largest recorded by Fire Monitor since its launch…
Belfast harbour is to invest £90m to upgrade its port to serve a wave of wind energy projects and cruise ships as part of a £300m investment plan. A new deepwater quay capable of supporting wind projects will be the largest part of an investment plan that also includes the construction of hundreds of homes…
National cabinet to meet this afternoon to discuss antisemitism in Australia Josh Butler National cabinet will meet this afternoon to discuss antisemitism in Australia, Guardian Australia has confirmed. Government sources said Anthony Albanese would convene a virtual meeting of state and territory leaders at 5pm AEDT today. It comes after the latest antisemitic attack on…
The Senate has confirmed one of its members, Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, as the next US secretary of state on Monday, giving Donald Trump the first permanent member of his cabinet just hours after the new president was sworn in for the second time. Rubio, 53, received overwhelming support from his former colleagues, with…
The hospitality industry will incur an extra £1bn of costs for 774,000 of its workers who will be newly eligible for employer national insurance contributions from April, endangering jobs and businesses, a leading industry body has claimed. UKHospitality, which represents thousands of restaurants, hotels, pubs, cafes and nightclubs, is calling on the government to delay…
A childcare centre in Sydney’s south-east was targeted with antisemitic graffiti and set alight early on Tuesday morning. Just before 1am emergency services were called to the centre in Maroubra where firefighters extinguished the blaze, but the building sustained extensive damage, NSW police said in a statement. Antisemitic graffiti was found spraypainted on an external…
In his inaugural speech, Donald Trump repeated his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. The ocean basin – bounded by the US Gulf coast, Mexico’s eastern states and the island of Cuba – is an an important centre of economic activity, including fishing, maritime transport, and oil and gas…
Thirty-two people are to give evidence in support of the Guardian’s defence of legal action brought against it by the actor and producer Noel Clarke. The details were set out on Monday at the high court in London in a pre-trial review hearing before a defamation and data protection trial, scheduled to start at the…
