- Monday, March 10, 2025
A father from Leicestershire has won a £3.7 million luxury house in Cornwall after spending £25 on the latest Omaze Million Pound House Draw, media reports said. Uttam Parmar, 58, said that the four-bedroom Cornish house, that looks over the Camel Estuary, was his favourite of all the prizes he…
Home-testing kits that can help detect early-stage bowel cancer will be rolled out to 58-year-olds in England for the first time, as part of a major expansion of the life-saving screening programme. People aged 58 will now receive a Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) if and when eligible, which can detect…
The UK is using its post-Brexit powers to launch one of the world’s most generous trading schemes with developing countries on Tuesday (16). International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan launched the new Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS), which will extend tariff cuts to hundreds of products exported from developing countries, going…
Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and was able to talk, a day after the Mumbai-born author was stabbed, in what US authorities said was a “targeted, unprovoked, preplanned” attack. Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses”, was stabbed by a 24-year-old…
Guildhall, in the heart of the City of London, will be lit green and white on Sunday 14 August to mark the 75th anniversary of the independence of Pakistan. Chris Hayward The lighting of the City of London Corporation’s headquarters also celebrates the strong trade links between the UK and…
Renowned writer JK Rowling received an online death threat after condemning the attack on Indian-born novelist Salman Rushdie, prompting Police Scotland to investigate the matter. Soon after the news broke of the attempt on Rushdie’s life in New York on Friday, the Harry Potter author tweeted, “Feeling very sick right…
Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank’s former India-born co-CEO, who played a crucial role in the development of the German bank, has died after a nearly five-year battle with cancer. Deutsche Bank said in a statement Saturday that it “mourns the death of its former Co-CEO Anshu Jain, who passed away in…
Guildhall, in the heart of the City of London, will be lit orange, white, and green on Monday (15) to mark the 75th anniversary of the independence of India. Chris Hayward The lighting of the City of London Corporation’s headquarters also celebrates the strong trade links between the UK and…
Britain’s energy crisis will push millions into destitution this winter unless the government hands out more cash to help struggling households pay fuel bills, Rishi Sunak, the trailing candidate in the contest to become Britain’s next leader, said. Former finance minister Sunak is up against foreign minister Liz Truss to…
Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes growing numbers of Britons to part with their pets. She was found running along a busy road in London after…
