Sandy Weill, former CEO of Citigroup, in 2014. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill announced Thursday morning a $50 million gift through the Weill Family Foundation to establish the Weill Cancer Hub East, a partnership aimed at using research on nutrition and metabolism to develop cancer treatments. The partnership brings together four…
Supporters of the climate group Just Stop Oil have announced that, after three years of disruptive protests, they are ending their campaign of civil resistance. Hannah Hunt, whose speech on Valentine’s Day 2022 marked the beginning of the campaign, made the announcement outside Downing Street in London on Thursday. “Three years after bursting on the…
The group that represents Democratic state election officials says it plans to spend $40m on competitive races in 2026 with the goal of Democratic control of election oversight before the 2028 presidential election. The Democratic Association of Secretaries of State says the plans amount to its “most aggressive” operation to date, a sign of growing…
Peter Dutton has vowed to establish a gas reservation scheme that will lower prices and sack all 41,000 federal public servants hired under Anthony Albanese if he wins an election billed as a “sliding doors moment” for the nation. But the opposition leader held fire on other major policy announcements, declining to reveal his targets…
Britain’s aviation watchdog will review the rules on “resilience” after Heathrow was closed because of a fire at an electricity substation. Europe’s largest airport was closed in the early hours of Friday last week after the blaze at the Hayes substation in west London hit electricity supplies. No planes were allowed to take off or…
Next has rung up £1bn in annual profits for the first time but warned of growing risks to the UK economy, saying big business could not afford to finance “excessive regulation” and government debt. The retailer said pre-tax profits rose 10% to just over £1bn in the year to January after sales increased 8.2% to…
A payments company that was used by parents to pay for school dinners has drawn criticism for charging them £10 to withdraw the remaining funds in their accounts after it pulled out of the market. Squid, which was used by 600 schools around the UK to take payments, stopped its service earlier this month after…
I read that the energy price cap is going up again in April and people are struggling to pay their bills, but I can’t find any information relating to homes with bulk LPG tanks. Does anybody care about us? Is there any control over the spiralling cost of buying it? At the moment we pay…
A Taiwan court has sentenced four soldiers, including three who worked in the president’s security team, to jail for up to seven years on charges of spying for China. The men were convicted of violating the national security law by passing “internal military information that should be kept confidential to Chinese intelligence agents for several…
Just after 6am on Tuesday morning, a curious young ginger cat boarded a train at St Albans station in Melbourne’s western suburbs and journeyed to Flinders Street station in the city centre. In CCTV footage you can see the carriage doors open on platform one before the unexpected passenger casually tails morning commuters to catch…
