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HSBC net zero goal delayed 20 years, as CEO offered 600% bonus
HSBC is delaying key parts of its climate goals by 20 years, while watering down environmental targets in a new long-term bonus plan for its chief executive, Georges Elhedery, that could be worth up to 600% of his salary.
The London-headquartered lender said it had launched a formal review of …
Leftwing activists less likely to work with political rivals than other UK groups, study finds
The rise of the cane corso: should this popular status dog be banned in the UK?
Neighbours stand chatting casually on a suburban pavement, one holding his dog. The next moment, the mundane scene descends into the stuff of nightmares. In a video released by South Yorkshire police, which looks as if it has been caught by a doorbell camera, a 47-year-old man has a large …
Pioneering ski-mountaineer Christina Lustenberger on life in a ‘wildly dangerous space’
Wednesday briefing: From Berlin to Helsinki – and even in London - barriers excluding the far right are disintegrating
Good morning. Kemi Badenoch has dismissed the idea of any kind of pact between the Conservatives and Reform UK – but, as the last couple of days have made abundantly clear, they are drinking from the same well.
On Monday, Badenoch spoke at a conference organised by the Alliance for …
Emma Raducanu left in tears as ‘fixated’ man ejected from Dubai tennis event
An emotional Emma Raducanu was knocked out of the Dubai Tennis Championships by Karolina Muchova, after a man in the crowd who had displayed “fixated behaviour” was ejected from the venue.
Raducanu appeared rattled and in tears as she went to the umpire’s chair after going behind 2-0 early in …
UK inflation increases to 3% as rising prices squeeze households
UK inflation accelerated at the start of this year, eating into workers’ wages and putting pressure on employers to boost monthly pay packets.
The consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation rose to 3% in January, the Office for National Statistics reported, up from 2.5% in December.
City economists had …
Royal Mail service ‘worst I’ve known’, say people who rely on postal deliveries
“Hi I haven’t received anything.” “Where is my DVD, I placed the order 14 days ago.” “Never got DVD. Probably lost in the mail.” “Please refund me.”
These are the types of messages that Charlene Leworthy, an eBay seller in Hampshire, gets increasingly frequently – which she finds disappointing, but …
Three resort workers die in suspected gas poisoning near hot spring in Japan
Three people have died in north-east
in an accident that authorities suspect is linked to the inhalation of deadly gas found in the country’s famedhot spring resorts
.Japanese media said the three men, who all worked at a nearby hotel, were found in a …
Plantwatch: the mysterious twitching telegraph plant that baffled Darwin
The telegraph plant (
Desmodium gyrans
, also known asCodariocalyx motorius
), is very strange. At the base of its larger paddle-shaped leaves are smaller leaflets that can be seen constantly twitching around in circles during the day for no obvious reason. These elliptical movements are driven by special motor cells …