This has been the worst first half of a year for US shares since 1970. The S&P500 was down 21 per cent by Thursday’s close, the high-tech Nasdaq index down 30 per cent, and the Dow Jones nearly 16 per cent. Here in the UK, the shares of big cap companies did markedly better, with…
A second woman has died at a tourist hotspot in Egypt from a shark attack after horrific footage emerged of another Austrian pensioner being killed 650ft away. Egyptian authorities another admitted lifeless body was pulled out of the sea after being located on a reef in Sahl Hasheesh, south of Hurghada, according to eyewitnesses. The…
Glittering career: Theo Fennell Not long ago, Theo Fennell would walk past his flagship jewelery store in Chelsea feeling like an outsider. Friction between him and his new investors had boiled over – he describes them as ‘the suits’ who had a very different vision from his own for the brand. He walked out. ‘I…
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Three Brazilian MPs have accused Nelson Piquet of committing a racial crime, asking a court to probe him over his N-word slur against Lewis Hamilton ahead of today’s British Grand Prix The politicians say they want the former F1 world champion charged over his controversial comments. Aurea Carolina, Taliria Petrone and Vivi Reis, MPs for…
An experienced public servant who lost a high paying job to a politician has demanded she give her evidence in-camera so she can properly detail her ‘distress’ about the scandal. Jenny West was told she had secured a $500,000 trade ambassador role in New York last August, but the high-flying public servant saw the job…
Joe Biden has been blasted by Jeff Bezos and China for pleading with gas companies to lower their prices to help inflation-battered American. The president tweeted Saturday: ‘My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril. Bring down the…
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It was a phone call every parent dreads. Charlotte Laws heard her daughter’s voice tremble at the end of the line. And it took just four words to send her mind racing: ‘Mum, something horrible happened.’ Was Kayla in hospital? Had there been an accident? The truth was far more sinister – as well as…
Love Island fans were left in hysterics on Saturday night, as Unseen Bits aired a clip of the boys playing a prank on the girls in the villa. The boys grouped together to plan a hilarious trick, by pretending that Jay had received a text that read: ‘Hi boys, please meet Abby and Immi at…
It was a phone call every parent dreads. Charlotte Laws heard her daughter’s voice tremble at the end of the line. And it took just four words to send her mind racing: ‘Mum, something horrible happened.’ Was Kayla in hospital? Had there been an accident? The truth was far more sinister – as well as…
Zara McDermott flaunted her curves in a taupe two-piece on a getaway to Ibiza with her boyfriend Sam Thompson as they soaked up the sun on Saturday. The former Love Islander, 25, looked incredible as she enjoyed a beach day in a string bikini with tie-up straps at the bottoms. The stunner showed off her…
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