A 19-year-old woman has died after she was attacked by a dog, thought to be an XL bully, inside a flat in Bristol. Two people were arrested after the attack in the Hartcliffe area of south Bristol on Wednesday on suspicion of offences including having a prohibited breed of dog. The dog was later destroyed,…
Donald Trump has threatened China with an additional 10% tariff on its exports to the US, setting the stage for another significant escalation in his trade war with Beijing. The US president also claimed that he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting next Tuesday, having delayed their imposition last month following talks…
Those worried about higher energy bills in the spring are being urged to switch to a cheaper, fixed deal now. On Thursday there were tariffs on offer that meant an average household could save up to about £230 a year. The average energy bill in Great Britain will rise by £111 from April to £1,849…
Five months after the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) finished first in parliamentary elections, Austria’s three leading centrist parties have reached agreement to form a new government without it. The centre-right People’s party (ÖVP), Social Democrats (SPÖ) and liberal Neos, whose first attempt at forming a coalition failed in January, unveiled a 200-page programme aimed mainly…
Ocado is to cut hundreds jobs in its technology teams as part of the loss-making online grocery specialist’s efforts to reduce costs using artificial intelligence to help with research and engineering. The company, which employs 20,000 people, said AI had helped improve the productivity of its engineering team, enabling it to cut 500 roles across…
Pornography depicting strangulation should be made illegal along with other kinds of “legal but harmful” sexual material, according to an independent government review. The recommendation is one of 32 made to the UK government by the Conservative peer Gabby Bertin, who was commissioned by the former prime minister Rishi Sunak to scrutinise the industry in…
Gatwick has been given qualified consent to operate a second runway after the government “set out a path to expansion” for London’s second biggest airport. The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, was “minded to approve” the £2.2bn expansion scheme, according to a government source, but has yet to ratify the development consent order that could allow…
Rolls-Royce has said it will return £1.5bn to shareholders as the British jet engine manufacturer paid its dividend for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. The FTSE 100 company announced on Thursday its underlying operating profits rose 55% in 2024 to £2.5bn, as it upgraded its guidance for future earnings. Rolls-Royce made underlying sales…
Transgender service members will be separated from the US military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday – essentially banning them from joining or serving in the armed forces. Donald Trump signed an executive order in January that took aim at transgender troops in a personal way…
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has announced an ambitious plan to add more than £100bn to the capital’s economy within a decade. Unveiling what he is calling the London growth plan, Khan said he was allocating hundreds of millions of pounds in devolved funding in an attempt to return the annual productivity growth of…
