Month: October 2021

LONDON — The taxes on alcoholic drinks in the U.K. are being radically simplified in the biggest overhaul in more than 140 years, Britain’s Treasury chief Rishi Sunak said in … Read More

Spain has sent another member of its government to Algeria to seek guarantees that its supply of natural gas won’t be impacted when Algeria closes its pipeline through Morocco on … Read More

The National Retail Federation expects that holiday sales gain could shatter last year’s record-breaking season even as a snarled global supply chain slows the flow of goods and results in … Read More

‘Health and safety zealots’: Locals’ fury at Lincolnshire council for spending £1.4million to replace cobbles with stones 5cm thicker in historic market town where Keira Knightley’s Pride and Prejudice movie … Read More

‘It flies in the face of the Government’s Global Britain agenda and punishes those who need to see family’: Chancellor’s £91 tax on ultra-long-haul flights criticised by pilots’ union The … Read More

Lethal flood risk from 3pm TODAY: Met Office warns of ‘unbelievable’ deluge with a MONTH’S worth of rain hitting Wales and the North over next two days An amber alert … Read More

Facebook stood by and watched as Donald Trump ignited torrent of hate with social media posts telling looters in Minneapolis they would be shot, leaked documents reveal Leaked Facebook documents … Read More

European Union regulators have opened an investigation into graphics chipmaker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer October 27, 2021, 4:04 PM • … Read More

Stocks wobbled in midday trading on Wall Street Wednesday, a day after the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average set their latest record highs By DAMIAN J. TROISE … Read More

Police say a vehicle struck and killed a United Auto Workers member as he was walking to a picket line outside a John Deere plant in Illinois ByThe Associated Press … Read More