Taking a seat at a Starbucks in China? Just make sure you’re also ordering something there. A new policy by Starbucks China takes effect across all its 8,000 stores on Thursday, making it mandatory for people to purchase items if they want to sit in its cafes. Starbucks China said th...
The UK has “glaring gaps” in its ability to defend the Arctic region, leaving it vulnerable to potential Russian attacks, a report by MPs has warned. The Commons Defence Committee said a shortage of Royal Navy warships and submarines was leaving the country’s critical inf...
Judges in England and Wales will be given stronger powers to block prison visits and keep offenders in their cells for weeks on end if they refuse to face their victims’ families during sentencing. The tougher sanctions, due to come into effect next year, build on an existing law tha...
Twenty-seven-year-old Republican Riley Owen is one of the few candidates from Gen Z – aged in their early teens to late 20s – from either party running for Congress on 3 November. Owen is running in a newly created district in Utah that experts say may lean towards the Democrat...
The technology industry has already been reshaped by layoffs, cost-cutting and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), making career moves tougher. But there are other routes to a US green card. People with exceptional accomplishments or whose work advances national interests m...
Keeley McKee’s mother Leanne was killed by her partner in 2003, weeks before the couple were due to marry. Source link...
When asked about Ramaswamy’s ad on Wednesday, Trump said: “I know nothing about it. I heard the mother went very rogue on the daughter.” He added: “It’s a very unusual situation to have a mother hate a daughter that much. But I dont think that has anything to ...
In the days before her death, six-year-old Flora Gentleman was in pain and visibly distressed. But because she was autistic and non-verbal, she could not tell her parents what was wrong. After four years of living with neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer, Flora had stopped respondi...
The BBC’s Liza Tambunan is in central Kalimantan, as Indonesia is facing its worst wildfire season in a decade. A toxic haze has been choking millions of residents in the region, and has spread to neighbouring countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. So why has it been so bad? Tambu...
As soon as these issues began to surface, local media pointed fingers at the company managing venue operations: the Japanese subsidiary of France’s GL Events. GL Events had won the 63bn yen (£306m; $405m) contract over Dentsu Group, an advertising giant with a long history of success...