Jeremy Hunt has acknowledged it will “take time” to bring taxes down, but he had “made a start” with his autumn statement. The chancellor admitted the tax take – the total the government collects – stood at £45bn, outstripping the benefits of the cuts announced in the fiscal event. The headline-grabbing announcement in Mr Hunt’s
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Actress Melissa Barrera has been dropped from the upcoming new Scream movie after reportedly sharing social media posts which criticised Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza. The Mexican star was in the cast for Scream 7 but has now been fired by the production company Spyglass, according to Variety magazine. A spokesperson for
Rapper Nines has been charged with drug offences after he was arrested at Heathrow Airport. The 33-year-old musician, whose real name is Courtney Freckleton, was held last Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said. A video posted on social media appears to show the star with his hands cuffed behind his back, wearing grey tracksuit bottoms, a
A vehicle has exploded on a bridge connecting the US and Canada – with the FBI warning that the situation is “very fluid”. The governor of New York state also confirmed there has been an incident on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls – and authorities are closely monitoring the situation. In a statement, Governor
Sam Altman (L), US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company’s co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | Afp | Getty Images After a weekend of crisis and tumult, Sam Altman has
A photo of a natural gas flare burning near an oil pump jack at the New Harmony Oil Field in the U.S. on June 19, 2022. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. crude prices fell more than 4% Wednesday after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries delayed a pivotal meeting on production cuts
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, the startup tweeted early Wednesday morning. The move follows immense pressure from employees and investors on the board that ousted him less than a week ago. Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers
Kayla Harrison Nov 22, 2023, 08:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison returns to competition for the first time in a year on Friday, when she meets Aspen Ladd in a nontitle fight at the PFL Championships in Washington (ESPN+ PPV, 5 p.m. ET). It has been a quiet, uncharacteristic year
YangWang, the luxury sub-brand of Build Your Dreams (BYD), is showcasing some impressive capabilities in its flagship U8 SUV it wants to float by you. The SUV has been on sale for months in China, but BYD wants to remind you that the U8 actually has an emergency mode in which it floats and can
Here are some of the main announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement to MPs: This will be updated as more information comes in… The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts an average inflation rate of 2.8% by the end of next year and 2% by 2025. Benefits will increase by 6.7%, the September rate
In a shock sequence of corporate drama befitting of Succession, Sam Altman – the public face of ChatGPT maker OpenAI – was suddenly forced out. Not being “consistently candid in his communications” was the charge laid at his feet by the board. But within days, the 38-year-old was tipped for a return, those who toppled
Four men have been handed life sentences for murdering council worker Ashley Dale who was shot in her garden in Liverpool. The 28-year-old’s boyfriend Lee Harrison, a drug dealer who was in a feud with a rival gang, was the intended target, Liverpool Crown Court heard. He was not at her home in Old Swan
National Insurance is to be cut by two percentage points, the chancellor has announced, as he pledged to “honour the triple lock in full” and increase Universal Credit by inflation. Delivering his autumn statement in the Commons, Jeremy Hunt said the main 12% National Insurance rate would fall to 10% from 6 January – saving
The mother of one of the four teenagers found dead after a car crash in North Wales has said she wishes she could wake from her “nightmare”. Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris – all aged 16, 17 and 18 – were found in a silver Ford Fiesta in Snowdonia (Eryri) on
ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it has agreed a deal for Sam Altman to return as chief executive after he was ousted by its board. The agreement “in principle” involves a new board being installed, the company said. In a post on X, OpenAI said: “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to
Binance’s Co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao speaks during the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 1, 2022. Nurphoto | Getty Images Binance’s VIP users were granted a set of special privileges, including an early heads-up from the crypto exchange if they were under investigation by law enforcement, according to the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes
In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia Co-Founder and CEO Jensen Huang arrives at a Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum in Washington on Sept. 13, 2023. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia shares slid 2% in extended trading on Tuesday after the chipmaker reported fiscal third-quarter results that
Jeremy Hunt will claim the economy is “back on track” in an autumn statement that is expected to prioritise tax cuts and economic growth. The chancellor is expected to say the government’s plan for the economy is “working” but “the work is not done” as he unveils measures to boost business investment by £20bn a
We got a chance to get up close and personal with a production-intent version of the upcoming Fisker PEAR, and it looks even better than we expected. Fisker first unveiled the PEAR at its Product Vision Day in August. We wrote about it at the time, saying that it looked promising but that the promised
Reality TV has undergone plenty of changes in the last decade – from the end of stalwart Noughties shows, the much-needed emphasis on duty of care towards participants, and the genre’s pipeline to social media influencing. Now Squid Game: The Challenge has landed on our screens and turned trusted formats upside down again. Some 456