State borrowing halved last month as the UK economy begins to bounce back from 18 months of turmoil during the pandemic. The Government borrowed £10.4billion in July – down from £20.5billion in the same month last year, the Office for National Statistics said. Economic activity was driven up by the lifting of Covid rules, which […]
Britain plans to establish offshore asylum centres for Afghan refugees in countries such as Pakistan and Turkey, as ministers admit that the UK will not be able to rescue those eligible for resettlement before troops leave Kabul.
The flu jab may fail to protect people this winter, vaccine makers fear, because global Covid surveillance prevented laboratories gathering sufficient data on the dominant variants.
Greek yogurt has swept the world in recent years because it’s real yogurt, rich and thick and creamy, and spawned a lot of “Greek-style” versions that are weak imitations but you can still find the real thing, if you know where to look.
The Department of Antiquities announced Friday that the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus conducted its 16th mission, between May – June 2021 in the framework of the Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, which has been running since 2006 under the direction of Professor Maria Iakovou.
Croatian Finance Minister Zdravko Marić has said his country is on track to meet its commitments under the mechanism for the country’s adoption of the Euro currency. “We are not running late. Quite the contrary, we are a bit faster,” said Marić after a meeting of the national council for the adoption of the euro.
79: Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii) [approx date] [1] [2] 1305: Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London 1542: Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code 1850: 1st US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts 1942: Battle of Stalingrad: […]
In the U.S. departure from Afghanistan China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard.
It is credited with preventing the worst global recession since at least the second world war from turning into something far worse. But after the injection of trillions of dollars into financial markets to cushion the blow from Covid-19, the era of quantitative easing could be coming to an end.
A poll released last week shows that two-thirds of Britons support increasing National Insurance contributions in order to pay for a long-delayed reform of social care in the UK. The survey by Ipsos Mori found that 64 percent of those polled said they would support a one percent increase in National Insurance contributions to help […]
