More than 400,000 workers from sectors ranging from car-making to mechanical engineering joined strikes and rallies across Germany this week calling for better pay and conditions, their union said Friday.
Freshways lowers price paid to producers by 7p a litre, prompting warnings confidence in the sector is ‘at rock bottom’ “Milk is leaving the farm at a loss,” says dairy farmer Ian Harvey, as he warns confidence in the sector is “at rock bottom”. Most of the UK’s dairy producers were already being paid less for their milk than it costs to produce it after a year of volatile farmgate milk prices, combined with the impact of the summer’s drought and soaring costs of vital fuel and fertiliser triggered by the conflict in Iran. Continue reading...
Irish government issues statement in response to latest bomb threats against European flights after some Irish media organisations received similar threats
Roberto De Zerbi says Tottenham are "building something special", but the Italian is wary of setting targets for his side after a difficult start to the season.
Chelsea boss Xabi Alonso insisted he was "happy" with Cole Palmer following the latest England snub for the forward, urging him to focus on his club form.
There are more than 100,000 words and phrases that the tech giant has restricted its predictive text from completing, research shows “Australia is a very bad place to question your sexuality on MDMA with NSA spies” might be a text you would wish to send to your friends, if you have had an extraordinarily complicated night out in Sydney. But your iPhone won’t help you spell any of it if you try to swipe-type it – that is, by gliding a finger across a keyboard as opposed to pecking out a word. Continue reading...
He is the most powerful ruler ever – and his first biographer was crucified. What drew Edmund Richardson, winner of the £50,000 Baillie Gifford prize, to his short tumultuous life? He was the most powerful man in the world but he was brought down by one battle too many after a decade at the top. The story of Alexander the Great might be more than 2,000 years old, but it seems timely that a new biography of the ancient ruler won the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction just as President Trump took a battering in the US midterms. “This is a moment,” says its author Edmund Richardson, “where peop