Simon Jack,Business editorand Jonah Fisher,Climate correspondent Getty Images Inspections without notice, regular MOT-style checks and compulsory water efficiency labels on appliances are among the key measures in the government’s overhaul of the water industry. The government is describing the measures as the biggest overhaul of the water industry in England and Wales since privatisation. Environment…
Getty Images Valentino walks the runway with Naomi Campbell and Gisele Bündchen at the end of his 1999/2000 Haute Couture show in Paris The late Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, known as Valentino, has dressed some of the most famous women and men of recent decades. Since he co-founded the Valentino fashion house in 1960,…
The Madras High Court’s Madurai Bench observed that women in live-in relationships deserve protection, drawing parallels to Gandharva marriage. Justice S. Srimathy rejected a man’s anticipatory bail plea, emphasizing that men who break marriage promises in such relationships can face legal consequences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court…
Wage growth in the UK eased to 4.5% between September and November, official figures suggest, following a sharp slowdown in private sector pay increases. The pace of pay growth for those employed by private businesses slowed to the lowest rate in five years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In contrast, public sector…
More than 100 vehicles were involved in a pile-up that closed the I96 interstate road in Ottawa County, Michigan on 19 January. State police reported that there had been multiple injuries but no fatalities. One man involved in the accident said he could barely see the cars in front of him due to the snow…
Saying that beauty lies in imperfection and actually believing and practicing it are two different things. In a world obsessed with filters and carefully curated but bubble-like confidence, Aastha Shah refuses to be defined by set standards. She has lived a journey of finding self-worth, and today inspires many to embrace their flaws, follow the…
If Madison Keys was not nervous enough about starting her Australian Open title defence, facing an unknown opponent only added to the tension. The 30-year-old American had a fairytale run in Melbourne 12 months ago, culminating in her lifting the first Grand Slam trophy of her career. However, she made an edgy start to her…
BBC When campaigning to become president for the second time, Donald Trump made improving the economy a central part of his pitch to voters. One year after returning to the White House, we asked voters about that promise. What do they think of the state of the economy? Are their lives better today than they…
Tech companies have raced to build out compute capacity to fuel their AI ambitions but are now faced with a new bottleneck: memory capacity. The crunch comes as workloads shift from training models to using AI tools, and it’s driven in part by agentic AI, where a system can execute tasks independently. AI agents require…
Several members of the Indian men’s cricket team chose an unconventional way to unwind ahead of international cricket action, opting for a jungle safari near Nagpur before the start of the T20I series against New Zealand.India’s T20 captain Suryakumar Yadav, along with Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Rinku Singh, and Ravi Bishnoi, visited the Pench Tiger…