Scottish Water staff will strike for two days from the early hours of Tuesday as a standoff over pay continues at the state-owned company. The striking workers’ union warned that emergency repairs and quality checks to water supplied to 5 million people across Scotland would not be carried out during the action on Tuesday and…
San Diego Padres designated hitter Luis Arraez was carted off the field after a scary collision with Houston Astros second baseman Mauricio Dubon on Sunday. Arraez was taken to the hospital, where he is “currently stable, conscious, responsive, and able to move his extremities,” according to the team. In the top of the first inning,…
Wedaeli Chibelushi & Nyasha Michelle BBC News D!nkTV The finale of Latey: Looking for Love has been viewed more than 620,000 times Boy meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Girl fends off love rivals and boy – finally – declares his affection for her. If you are a fan of reality TV dating shows, you…
Britain is set to significantly increase its weapons production in order to no longer rely on importing from the US and France. This comes as British and European defence companies move away from buying US-made weaponry and equipment due to concerns over president Donald Trump making the country an unreliable military partner. First reported by…
Derrick White scored 30 points, Jayson Tatum had 17 points and finished the game after a scary late fall, and the Boston Celtics beat the Orlando Magic 103-86 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Sunday. Payton Pritchard added 19 points off the bench for Boston, which hosts Game 2 on Wednesday night. Jaylen…
(L-R) US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) look on during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The Trump administration could soon roll…
About 49,000 A&E visits last year resulted in patients waiting 24 hours or more for a hospital bed, with people aged 65 or over making up almost 70% of cases. According to a freedom of information request by the Liberal Democrats, some patients went 10 days before getting a space on a ward. The analysis,…
Business owners and CEOs are already stocking up on inventory, and some American shoppers are panic buying big-ticket items in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The sudden buying binge could cause an “artificially high” level of economic activity, said Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee. “That kind of preemptive purchasing is probably…
Ronald Acuña Jr. watched with interest when Jarred Kelenic was thrown out at second base after failing to hustle out of the batter’s box on a long drive in the Atlanta Braves’ 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins. Acuña went to social media to criticize the way manager Brian Snitker handled the situation. Acuña, recovering…
RAF fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft flying close to Nato airspace over the Baltic Sea. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said two RAF Typhoons were scrambled from Malbork airbase in Poland on Tuesday to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M “Coot-A” intelligence aircraft. On Thursday, another two Typhoons were scrambled from the base to…
