Employers wishing to recruit engineers, IT workers and telecommunication staff from abroad will have to show they are investing in domestic workforce training under plans to reduce net migration to the UK. A government white paper to be published early next week is expected to outline new requirements for specific sectors thought to be too…
BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management company, is reportedly preparing to order its senior managers to work from the office five days a week. The New-York based company is expected to tell its staff as early as Thursday that about 1,000 managing directors around the world should work in the office full-time, the Financial Times…
The UK and US are poised to announce a trade agreement, the first by the White House since Donald Trump announced his sweeping global tariffs. Trump said it was “a very big and exciting day” for both countries ahead of a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday. Keir Starmer is planning to deliver…
Investigators have failed to find the root cause of the substation fire that shut Heathrow airport in March, six weeks after the government ordered an “urgent” investigation. A preliminary report from the National Energy System Operator (Neso) ruled out any suspicious activity behind the outage which cut power to the airport, affecting more than 1,350…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Jakub Krupa If you want to see the latest scenes from the Vatican, there is now a live stream showing St Peter’s Square and the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel pinned at the top of this page. Share What to expect…
Tensions were high across India and Pakistan on Thursday, with airports shut down and security drills under way in major border cities, amid warnings by Pakistan that it intended to retaliate for Wednesday’s strikes. In a speech late on Wednesday night, prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said he would “solemnly swear that we will avenge each…
A factional war risks overshadowing the start of Labor’s second term in power, with senior ministers Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic at risk of being pushed out of cabinet in a fight party sources describe as increasingly ruthless. Ahead of the first caucus meeting after Labor’s stunning election victory, due to take place at Parliament…
The federal court has given the green light for concert pianist Jayson Gillham to sue the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with chief justice Debra Mortimer ordering the case to proceed to trial. In March, the MSO sought to have Gillham’s case thrown out, arguing that the pianist was not an employee but a freelance contractor, so…
Earlier this year, Utah and Idaho’s Republican-controlled legislatures passed bans on flying the rainbow pride flags and other “unofficial flags” on government property. Leaders in both states’ capital cities, Salt Lake City and Boise, recently devised an inventive workaround – changing their official flags. Salt Lake City’s mayor, Erin Mendenhall, proposed the adoption of three…
The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing dozens of grants across the National Park Service for termination, according to reporting from the New York Times, one of several moves destabilizing the US’s investment in public lands. According to the newspaper, staff members at Elon Musk’s unofficial “department of government efficiency” have created a spreadsheet of federal…
