This incredible footage shows a giant bird soaring over a beach with a giant fish in its talons. Its prey can be seen wriggling around as it tries to escape its clutches while stunned onlookers tried to work out what is flying past them. The video shot at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was shared on […]
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Europe
A West London mother who converted to Islam has been jailed for life for plotting to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral during Easter celebrations. Safiyya Shaikh, 36, also planned to plant a bomb in a nearby hotel and then blow herself up in a suicide attack on the London Underground. She was foiled in an […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Nicola Sturgeon criticised Downing Street’s decision-making process over the air bridge holiday travel row as “frankly shambolic”. She rebuked claims from Government ministers in London that the SNP were a “barrier” to […]
Business
MILAN (Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler (FCA) said the terms of its merger with France’s PSA had not changed after an Italian newspaper report that it was looking to spin off assets to reduce a planned 5.5 billion euro ($6.2 billion) cash pay-out to its shareholders. FCA (FCHA.MI) said on Friday that it was sticking to […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are dialing back expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve may soon move to implement yield curve control, with some of them welcoming skepticism from the central bank in considering such a move. Federal Reserve minutes released on Wednesday showed serious questions were raised about the strategy. Some bond market players […]
World News
Royals and politicians are among celebrities and wealthy business figures who used the SAME secret phone network as hundreds of crime kingpins as UK police smash encoded EncroChat app Well-known names said to be among 60,000 users of the secret system EncroChat devices are not illegal and having one is not a criminal offence Lawyer […]
Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Geoffrey Berman, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan who was ousted from his job last month amid an investigation by his office into President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, will appear for a closed-door interview before congressional committee next week, a congressional aide said on Thursday. The interview in the House […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Kenny MacAskill who served as a former justice secretary under Alex Salmond said that the issue could be decided by the next Scottish Parliament election in 2021. In a column in The […]
Asia
KUALA LUMPUR – Several Umno chiefs have questioned a decision by its leadership to nominate Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin as the prime ministerial candidate should the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) alliance win the next general election. Former Cabinet minister Shahrir Samad said it was premature to name Tan Sri Muhyiddin as PN’s next PM […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest pension fund, on Friday reported a record quarterly loss of 17.71 trillion yen ($164.74 billion) in January-March after global stock markets plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. GPIF posted a negative return of 10.71% on its overall assets during the three months, compared with […]
Analysis & Comment
(Reuters) – Shares of U.S. business analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc DNB.N ended trading up 15% in their market debut on Wednesday, riding on the back of a recent recovery in investor appetite for new stocks. Shares closed at $25 on the New York Stock Exchange, compared to their initial public offering (IPO) […]
