Unemployed Britons are to be given access to a government-backed AI chatbot to help them apply for jobs — but employers fear the scheme could trigger a flood of irrelevant applications. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will next week invite AI firms to develop an “agent” capable of filling in forms, completing job applications and registering patients at ...
British racing will stage the first strike in its modern history next month, cancelling all fixtures on 10 September in protest at the Treasury’s plan to raise betting tax. Four meetings due to take place at Carlisle, Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, and Kempton and Lingfield Park in Surrey will be called off, costing the industry an estimated £700,000. The blackout comes ...
Evelyn Partners, one of the UK’s largest wealth managers, is preparing to be put up for sale in a deal that could value the business at more than £2 billion. Owners Permira and Warburg Pincus have appointed investment bank Evercore to explore a potential auction, with formal sale plans expected to be launched within months. The move marks a shift ...
It is increasingly the norm for businesses from all sectors to be subjected to pressure to cut their carbon footprint and align themselves with international climate ambitions. The SBTI offers a solid platform for organizations to establish and achieve such climate goals. Nevertheless, achieving net-zero is not an easy achievement—it takes accurate data monitoring, practical analysis, and effective contradiction and ...
Marcus Rashford’s world-exclusive interview on The Rest Is Football has set new records for Goalhanger, drawing more than 1.4 million streams across YouTube, Spotify Video and podcast platforms within 48 hours of release. Clips from the special 40-minute episode, featuring co-hosts Gary Lineker and Micah Richards, generated a further 48.8 million views across social media in just two days, underlining ...
President Donald Trump closed out his 30th week in office of his second term with a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, in an attempt to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The two did not reach a peace agreement, but Trump said that the meeting was a success and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...
The State Department announced on Saturday that it was halting all visitor visas to individuals from Gaza while it reviews the issuing process. ‘All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,’ a ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday outlined firm conditions for a ‘real peace’ ahead of a high-stakes meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday. Zelenskyy posted to X following his call with Trump and then with European leaders, after Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska to try and bring about an end to the 3 ½ year ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agreed with Donald Trump’s claim that the war in Ukraine would not have ever even begun if he had not lost the 2020 election and was serving as president when the carnage began, instead of former President Joe Biden. ‘I can confirm that,’ Putin said at the tail-end of a press conferece that ...
It was a made-for-TV moment: The two leaders met on the tarmac at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, Air Force One and two F-35 fighters in the background. As they walked together, overhead came the roar of those F-35s, followed by the low, almost ghostly sweep of a B-2 stealth bomber — a display of U.S. airpower as much ...