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England set to name both Smiths in starting XV for France Six Nations clash
England are poised to select both Fin Smith and Marcus Smith in the same starting team to face France in the Six Nations this weekend. The young Northampton outside-half is in line to make his first start in the No 10 jersey with the Harlequin fly-half set to be redeployed …
Panama court is asked to cancel Hong Kong firm’s contract to run canal ports
Tariffs would be a drag, but Guinness boss still needs to find a brew for recovery
Donald Trump’s on-off tariffs are at least good for one thing: they provide struggling managements with a handy excuse to ditch their sales forecasts. Diageo, the Guinness, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff combo, was able to cite “the current macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty” – exhibit A being the possible US tariffs …
Group of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off Reform
Labour MPs whose seats are under threat from Reform UK have set up a pressure group that will urge Keir Starmer to take a tougher stance on migration and crime, amid growing concern about the rise of the rightwing populist party.
MPs drawn from the 89 constituencies where Reform came …
AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years
One of the “godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade because current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.
Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, said new breakthroughs are …
Putin orders revival of Soviet-era Eurovision rival
Vladimir Putin has ordered the revival of the Soviet-era alternative to the Eurovision song contest after Russia was banned from participating in the competition.
The Russian leader signed a decree on Monday instructing officials to revive the Intervision song contest in Moscow this year with the aim of “developing international …
Hunt: Starmer should not retaliate if Trump hits UK with trade tariffs
Keir Starmer should not retaliate if Donald Trump hits the UK with trade tariffs, the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned, with ministers braced for the president’s latest round of economic measures.
The former chancellor told the Guardian the UK did not have enough economic firepower to start a trade …
SNP avoids early election as it wins backing for budget at Holyrood
The SNP minority government has passed its budget and avoided triggering an early election after securing a coalition of support at Holyrood.
The tax and spending plans, which provide £21.7bn for health and social care, including £200m to reduce waiting times and tackle delayed discharge, passed the first parliamentary stage, …
El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails
Thousands to sue Johnson & Johnson in UK over alleged talc link to cancer
Lawyers representing 3,500 claimants are preparing to sue the pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over alleged links between talcum powder and cancer, in what is expected to be one of the largest pharmaceutical product group actions in English and Welsh legal history.
They claim that thousands of women and …