Getty Images for James Beard Foundation Vijay Kumar accepts the Best Chef: New York State award at the 2025 James Beard Awards In Manhattan’s West Village, where culinary trends can change with the seasons, Chef Vijay Kumar is shaping a quiet revolution. His 2025 James Beard Award win for Best Chef: New York State this...
Lana Lam and Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Watch: People compete in Auckland RUNIT championship league event “Defender ready?” calls the host. A thumbs up and moments later, two burly men – with no protective gear – run full speed at each other before they clash, the unmistakable sound of flesh and bone crunching. The...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The Trump administration is intensifying its campaign against vaccinations, with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdrawing U.S. funding for the world’s preeminent international vaccine organization. The group — known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance...
Leonard Lauder, the businessman who built Estee Lauder into one of the world’s biggest cosmetic makers, has died aged 92. Lauder joined his parents’ company in 1958 and served as chief executive for 17 years. He was an accomplished dealmaker and bought brands including Clinique, Bobbi Brown and MAC. “He was an icon and pioneer,...
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In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations increased spending on nuclear weapons, according to a report published by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The annual report, entitled, “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,” reveals that last year, the nine nuclear states increased spending by...
Global oil prices have jumped after Israel said it had struck Iran, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East. The price of the benchmark Brent crude was up by more than 10% shortly after the news emerged, reaching its highest level since January. Traders are concerned that a conflict between Iran and...
Sajid Iqbal & Ashitha Nagesh BBC News BBC On the surface, Muhammed Asif Hafeez was an upstanding individual. A global businessman and ambassador of a prestigious London polo club, he rubbed shoulders with the British elite, including members of the Royal Family. He also regularly passed on detailed information to the authorities in the UK...
Global economic growth is set to be slower this year largely because of Donald Trump’s US tariffs, according to a leading international policy group. Worldwide growth is now expected to slow to a “modest” 2.9%, down from a previous forecast of 3.1%, said the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It blamed a “significant”...
Getty Images “Watch the courts” was the whispered message a well-connected diplomat told me in Washington DC last month, amid the previous episode of US tariff chaos. Most eyes were on the high-profile case in California from the Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom – that President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs were illegal. In the event, it...
BBC A US federal court has ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority by imposing global tariffs, in a major blow to a key part of his economic policies. The Court of International Trade ruled that an emergency law invoked by the White House does not provide unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly...
Elen Davies BBC News Reporting fromSkomer Island Amy Compton Conservationists have counted 43,626 puffins on Skomer Island this year – a new record A record number of puffins have been recorded on a small island off the Pembrokeshire coast, despite global populations declining rapidly. According to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW),...
President Donald Trump is hardly an avatar for underconsumption. With a net worth of roughly $5 billion, the business mogul, crypto salesman and former reality TV star boasts a sprawling portfolio of lavish properties, private jets and luxury cars. But amid the tumultuous rollout of his sweeping tariff policy, Trump has had an unexpected message...
Season ticket holder Jack Dunn, 30, managed to bag himself one ticket for the final – but when his 16-year-old brother Johnny said he also wanted to come, he knew what he had to do. Johnny was born in England but emigrated with their dad, Gavin, to Adelaide, Australia in 2014 and hasn’t been back...
Reuters Singapore PM Lawrence Wong became the PAP party leader last year Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has won by a landslide in an election dominated by concerns over the cost of living and the country’s future economic stability. Led by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his first election since he became party leader...