A devastating fire has torn through a bus carrying 44 students and teachers on a school trip outside Bangkok, with up to 25 feared dead. The Thai prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, said there were fatalities and offered condolences to the victims’ families. The transport minister, Suriya Jungrungreangkit, said the number of fatalities was not clear…
The former security minister Tom Tugendhat has criticised his Conservative leadership rival’s claim that UK special forces are “killing rather than capturing” terrorism suspects, saying they were a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the law of war. Robert Jenrick, the former immigration minister, has defended his claim on Tuesday, and said it echoed those of the former…
Night scene of Singapore’s Toa Payoh district Chanachai Panichpattanakij | Moment | Getty Images Singapore’s private home prices fell for the first time in five quarters amid depressed sales, preliminary market data showed on Tuesday. The data released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority showed that its private home price index fell 1.1% last quarter as…
Introduction: Energy price cap rises today Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. It’s October, which means the nights are drawing in, the temperature is dropping, and arguments can begin about when to turn the heating on. But flicking the boiler on has just become…
The British handbag maker Mulberry has rejected an £83m takeover proposal from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group as too low, insisting instead that it would push on with a planned fundraising to support a turnaround. The luxury brand said it had considered the approach carefully and consulted its 56.1% majority shareholder Challice, controlled by the Singaporean…
The former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner has pleaded guilty to fraud charges linked to claims made against Iraq war veterans. Shiner, 67, appeared at Southwark crown court on Monday and pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA). He will be sentenced on 2 December. Shiner, from Birmingham,…
A critically injured seal pup found in suspicious circumstances on a Victorian beach has sparked an investigation by the state’s conservation watchdog. Crime Stoppers Victoria on Tuesday said the Conservation Regulator was appealing for assistance after a juvenile sub-Antarctic fur seal was euthanised shortly after being found injured on Lake Bunga Beach, near of Lakes…
At least two Las Vegas radio stations have removed Green Day from their playlists after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong called the city “the worst shithole in America”. Speaking on stage on 20 September during a performance at San Francisco’s Oracle Park, Armstrong complained about the decision of John Fisher, the current owner of the Oakland…
This summer I set off on what I had hoped would be the holiday of a lifetime to Greenland. Sadly, just two days into the trip, my mother died. I cut short the holiday and went on to make a claim on my Big Cat Travel Insurance policy for £6,000 and supplied the death certificate,…
Some of the busiest ports in the US were braced for crippling disruption after about 45,000 port workers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) began walking off the job after their contracts expired at midnight. Talks over a new union contract between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) broke down on…
