Probation hostels in England and Wales forced to shut after staffing crisis
Watchdog says public being put in danger by closure of premises that accommodate most dangerous offendersNearly one in ten probation hostels where Eng...
‘Most spectacular own goal in history’: new EU rules threaten to shut out UK car manufacturers
EU urged to make UK exempt from rules that risk becoming the most damaging consequence of Brexit yetThe EU’s car industry has called for the UK to be ...
VW plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs and shut plants, report says
German firm reportedly considering doubling previously announced staff reductions amid Chinese competitionBusiness live – latest updatesGermany’s Volk...
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump ad...
South Korea’s Starbucks Shut Early After ‘Tank Day’ Promotion Debacle
All Starbucks stores in South Korea shut early on Monday because of a franchise-wide training instituted in the wake of a disastrous marketing campaig...
Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion
The closures, so employees can watch a recorded lecture, will cost the company an estimated 2.1bn won ($1.4m) in salesStarbucks Korea will simultaneou...
Apple's new Siri AI is finally here, and so far, it seems like it works. I have access and have been messing around with it, and my biggest impression...
‘Catastrophic for creative industries’: Brexit barriers shut UK actors out of EU jobs
Casting shifts to EU talent as paperwork delays and visa limits make hiring British crews less viableFrom blacklists for UK passport holders to being ...
Democrats say they were shut out of ‘fraud crackdown’ event hosted by JD Vance
State attorneys general say their deputies were turned away despite Vance saying crackdown ‘shouldn’t be partisan’Three Democratic state attorneys gen...
Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds
Trump administration accused of cutting military’s civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in IranThe Pentagon has quietly dismant...
Man dies in Sydney prison unit that watchdog wanted shut down because it ‘cannot provide a safe environment’
Exclusive: Young inmate took own life in Long Bay prison five months after independent inspector warned of ‘ligature points in cells across all areas’...
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Ryanair to shut Berlin base as it blames rise in German aviation tax
Trade union criticises airline’s plan to halve passenger numbers to the city as ‘purely profit-oriented’ Ryanair is to shut its Berlin operating bas...
US supreme court sides with Michigan in its fight to shut down ageing pipeline
The case is part of a messy legal dispute about a section of the Line 5 energy pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channelThe supreme court on Wednesday si...
