The AA says a litre of petrol is now almost 20p more than it was when the weekly rise began at the end of November 2020 and at the highest it has been for almost 8 years.

A picture has surfaced of Jasmine Hartin from 2013, a year before she arrived in Belize where today she is behind bars, arrested following the death of a police chief a week ago.

The Range Rover Vogue SE was supplied to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for their personal use and is fitted with additional features upon request of the highest order.

Is it an echo of democracy, fuelled by hope, or merely a bit of laziness on the behalf of Washington D.C.’s public workers? Rob Stumpf’s been following the story on twitter, by way of Matt Blaze, on a bit of conventional weirdness haunting the Beltway and the quest to discover its source. A bit more […]

Bloomberg editors and news executives prevented reporters from following up on an award-winning 2012 investigation into China’s wealthy elite over concerns that the Chinese Communist Party could retaliate by kicking the outlet out of the country, according to audio recordings obtained by NPR.In late October 2013, Bloomberg’s founding editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler explained in a conference […]

(Bloomberg) — It is an odd moment for gold to be tumbling. One of the oldest and most-trusted safe havens in times of crises, gold typically rallies amid nasty stock sell-offs like the one that has gripped the world this week.So its plunge Friday — it fell as much as 5%, the most in almost […]

(Bloomberg) — Nine people have died as heavy monsoon rains lashed the Indonesian capital and nearby cities since New Year’s Eve, triggering the worst flooding in almost seven years.The rains submerged homes and cars and shut one of Jakarta’s airports. More than 700 areas in greater Jakarta region suffered from power outages, according to state-run […]

Federico Motka was captured alongside fellow aid worker David Haines in March 2013 on a road in Syria. The pair were pulled away from their car at gunpoint by masked men.

Beirut (AFP) – Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in neighbouring Syria since 2013, targeting regime forces along with their allies Iran and the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.