Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Sells 20% Stake In Berkshire Hathaway

TikTok: Montana becomes first US state to ban video-sharing app on personal devices

Montana has become the first state in the US to ban Chinese-owned popular video-sharing platform TikTok from personal devices. The state’s Republican governor Greg Gianforte signed...

Transgender butcher admits abducting and sexually abusing schoolgirl

A transgender butcher has admitted abducting a schoolgirl from a street in the Scottish Borders before locking her inside his bedroom and sexually abusing her.  Andrew...

Lee Rigby’s son speaks out for first time since his dad was murdered 10 years ago

Lee Rigby’s 12-year-old son has spoken out for the first time since his dad was murdered in 2013.  Jack Rigby was just two-years-old when Fusilier Lee...

Harry and Meghan ‘paparazzi chase’: What have people said so far?

It has been a whirlwind of conflicting reports since Harry and Meghan’s spokesperson claimed the couple were involved in a “near catastrophic” car chase with “highly...

‘Modest increase in water bills’ to pay for £10bn investment, says industry chief

A £10bn investment from water companies to stop sewage spills will be paid for by customers through “modest increases to their bills”. Ruth Kelly, chair of...

BT to slash workforce by up to 55,000 before 2030, with AI replacing 10k jobs

BT has revealed plans to significantly reduce the number of people working for the telecoms group as part of efforts to cut costs and bolster profitability,...

Union immortalises council workers in action figure form to celebrate ‘unsung heroes’

A refuse collector from South Wales is among a number of council workers immortalised in action figure form. The UK’s largest union, UNISON, is behind the...

Yamaha launches special edition electric bike to celebrate 30 years of building e-bikes

Yamaha has just announced a new limited edition electric bicycle known as the 30th Anniversary Special Edition YDX-MORO 07. The launch celebrates Yamaha’s 30 years of...

Alibaba plans to list cloud division as quarterly revenue misses expectations

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba, unveiled its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen during the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit on Tuesday morning. Bloomberg | Bloomberg...

Here comes the US’s largest self-sustaining renewable bus depot

Clean energy trailblazer Montgomery County, Maryland, has announced it’s building what will be the largest self-sustaining, renewable-powered bus depot in the US. The bus depot will...

Extradited tech tycoon Lynch says battle ‘far from over’

The extradited British technology tycoon Mike Lynch has told allies his battle “is far from over” weeks after appearing in an American court for the first...

Boy, 4, found dead in flat being treated as murder – as death of 38-year-old ‘not suspicious’

The death of a four-year-old whose body was found in a flat is being treated as murder following a post-mortem examination, police have said. The body...

Paul Cattermole: S Club 7 singer died from natural causes, coroner says

Paul Cattermole, the singer with pop band S Club 7 who died last month aged 46, died from natural causes, a coroner has announced. Dorset Coroner’s...

Paul Cattermole: S Club 7 singer died from natural causes, coroner says

Paul Cattermole, the singer with pop band S Club 7 who died last month aged 46, died from natural causes, a coroner has announced. Dorset Coroner’s...

Royal Mail delivers £1bn annual loss

Royal Mail’s parent firm has reported £748m in annual operating losses, driven by the crisis within the UK business that was dogged by strikes and poor...

BT to slash workforce by up to 55,000 before 2030

BT has revealed plans to significantly reduce the number of people working for the telecoms group as part of efforts to cut costs and bolster profitability....

Water firms apologise for sewage spills and splash £10bn to clean up their act

Water and sewage firms in England have issued a public apology for “not acting quickly enough” on spills – and vowed to spend £10bn to clean...

Greedflation? There’s no evidence supermarkets are profiteering – and this is why

It is hardly surprising that, confronted with the highest levels of food and drink inflation since 1977, some people have concluded that supermarkets are “profiteering”. Those...

Four children, including 11-month-old baby, found alive in jungle – weeks after plane crash

Four indigenous children in Colombia have been found alive – more than two weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle. An...