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Friday briefing: The Bank of England interest rate cut suggests there are more gloomy times ahead
Good morning. As anticipated, on
Thursday the Bank of England cut UK interest rates from 4.75% to 4.5%
, their lowest level since June 2023. The cut, the third in six months, will affect mortgages, loans and savings, and offer some relief to borrowers.The Bank’s monetary policy …
Japan’s PM heads to Washington hoping he can recreate rapport of Trump-Abe era
Donald Trump had yet to get his feet under the Oval Office desk when he held his first meeting with a foreign leader in late 2016.
, then Japan’s prime minister, arrived atTrump Tower
in November that year bearing a gift of a gold-plated …Galthié hails ‘genius’ Marcus Smith as France make two changes to starting XV
Fabien Galthié said Marcus Smith “carries genius with him” on Thursday in high praise for the England playmaker, adding: “He’s a peerless attacker; he can change a match with one run, one pass, one kick.”
The France head coach had been asked about the uncertainty over where on the pitch …
England will not boycott Afghanistan game despite Taliban ‘gender apartheid’
England have confirmed they will play Afghanistan in the upcoming Champions Trophy despite pressure to boycott the fixture in response to the Taliban’s violation of women’s rights in the country.
Last month a cross-party group of
160 British MPs wrote to the England and Wales Cricket Board
…‘A crying need’: Goma hospitals plead for blood donors after M23 assault
Patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds have crammed into overwhelmed hospitals in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many with serious injuries and in need of blood, after M23 rebels backed by Rwanda marched into the city.
At least 2,900 people have been killed and thousands more wounded …
Howie Roseman: from exile on Broad Street to the Super Bowl’s most important man
Howie Roseman has taken on folklore status in the NFL. Whenever the draft and free-agent seasons roll around, you hear the chorus: Howie has done it again! As general manager, Roseman has led the Philadelphia Eagles to three Super Bowl appearances in eight years, winning one title. But this year’s …
One year to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics: Twenty athletes from Team USA to watch
1-2) Madison Chock and Evan Bates
Figure skating
The longtime ice dance partners, together on skates from 2011 and married since last year, finally broke through for
their first world championship
after years of near-misses in 2023, thenwent back-to-back last year
in their adopted hometown …India ease home in opening ODI after below-par England look short of ideas
A different format, a much-changed India, but the same result. England fell to a four-wicket defeat in the opening one-day international at Nagpur, Shubman Gill top-scoring with 87 in a successful chase of 249.
Gill, who did not play in the preceding Twenty20 series, was backed up by half-centuries from …
Patrick Mahomes and Olympic flag football hopeful they can bury hatchet
Both men are in New Orleans as the city prepares for Sunday’s Super Bowl, where …
Good times for a change? Borthwick pairs playmaker Smiths against France
Steve Borthwick has handed a first England start to the fly-half Fin Smith and shifted Marcus Smith to fullback as he seeks to end his side’s dismal run of form against France on Saturday. Tom Willis will also make a first start having been given the nod at No 8 …