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Passengers may lose patience with the government before it can make the changes needed to fix the railway, the rail minister, Lord Hendy, admitted, as he promised that action was coming after “years of torpor”. The government is midway through a consultation on plans for a reformed, integrated Great British Railways (GBR), with legislation to…
Ahead of the Oscars ceremony, Brazil’s Fernanda Torres – star of Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie I’m Still Here – had warned her compatriots not to get into a “World Cup fever” over the Academy Awards. Her plea went in vain on Sunday night, however, as crowds across the country – already gathered to celebrate carnival…
There are good reasons why cash Isa holders like me don’t want to convert to share-based investments (Cash Isas: pressure grows against rumoured move to £4,000 allowance, 1 March). We don’t trust the City or governments. After Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson’s deregulation of the City in 1986, people were encouraged to become part of…
Erin Harkless Moore manages investments for Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures. Courtesy of Pivotal Ventures A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Melinda French Gates has committed $2 billion to…
Authorities in Paris have created a dedicated car-sharing lane during rush-hour on its notorious ring road as part of efforts to reduce congestion and pollution on one of Europe’s busiest motorways. Paris city hall began the trial scheme on Monday, restricting the outside lane of the périphérique to passenger vehicles carrying at least two people…
One dead after car driven into crowds in Mannheim – what we know German police shut down the city centre of Mannheim in western Germany after a car was driven into the crowds, with local media reporting multiple people injured. Mannheim police spokesperson confirmed at at least one person is dead, and several others are…
Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, said on Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports, in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed by the billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) could possibly cause an economic downturn. “You know that governments historically have messed…
The Conservatives have compared Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn after the Reform UK leader said Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been “rude” to Donald Trump, as well as criticising the Ukrainian president for not wearing a suit to the Oval Office. The Liberal Democrats accused Farage of parroting White House talking points after Farage denied that Elon…
Crews on Sunday made progress containing a wildfire in South Carolina’s Carolina Forest, where residents had been ordered to evacuate several neighborhoods, according to Horry county fire rescue. Video showed some people running down the street as smoke filled the sky. But by late Sunday afternoon, the fire department announced that evacuees of Carolina Forest…
