When Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office on Monday in a rare indoor inaugural ceremony under the Capitol dome, the grand Rotunda will be packed with dignitaries, lawmakers and supporters of the incoming president. It is the same ornate hall, inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, where presidents and other dignitaries have lain…
Santander has rushed out a note to senior managers after it emerged that the Spanish-owned lender is reviewing the future of its UK business amid mounting frustrations over regulation. The chief executive of Santander’s UK corporate and commercial bank, John Baldwin, sent out a memo outlining how to respond to clients and its 21,000 UK…
Joe Biden has pre-emptively pardoned a number of people including Covid response chief Anthony Fauci and the members of the 6 January riot investigation, to prevent “unjustified… politically motivated prosecutions”. Trump, who will be inaugurated later on Monday, regularly clashed with Dr Fauci during the pandemic and has suggested he would take action against those…
Reuters Debra Tice said she had “no idea” where her son was following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, abducted in Syria while on a reporting trip in 2012 and one of the longest-held American hostages, has returned to the country for the first time in…
Shares in the owner of the Daily Mirror rose more than a quarter after the publisher said it expects to beat annual profit expectations, after a strong end to the year and the benefit of deep cost-cutting in recent years. Reach, which owns national papers including the Mirror and Express and scores of local titles…
Donald Trump’s candlelit dinner Sunday night was a studded affair with the world’s biggest names rubbing elbows. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were just a few of the power brokers in attendance at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Jared Kushner at Trump Inauguration…
Pope Francis has said that Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal migrants from the US would be a “disgrace” if they materialised. Speaking to an Italian TV programme from his Vatican residence, Francis said that if the plans went ahead, Trump would make “poor wretches that don’t have anything foot the bill”. “That’s not right….
A court in India has sentenced a man to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests. The judge rejected demands for the death penalty but said that Sanjoy Roy, a hospital volunteer who was convicted over the weekend, would spend the…
Changing habits and the gloomy state of the world are taking the fizz out of French champagne sales, the producers’ association has said, with shipments down nearly 10% last year. Consumers in crucial markets such as the US and home country France cut down on the luxury beverage, as economic and political anxiety dampened the…
Melania Trump, pictured in July 2024, has launched her own meme coin. Leon Neal | Getty Images Incoming first lady Melania Trump launched her own meme coin ahead of her husband’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. In a Sunday evening post on the X social media platform, she announced…
