Australia is expected to become the first country to ban the sale of vapes outside pharmacies. But its so-called 'world-leading' laws have been substantially watered down. If the Labor party's anti-vaping bill was going to get anywhere, they had to strike a deal with the Greens, which meant a balancing act between Labor's desire to crack down on vaping and the Greens' claiming this amounted to prohibition.
Need to buy a paintbrush? You might start in the same place millions of shoppers do every day: by opening the Amazon app. In the search results you will find a baffling array of brushes, sold by brands such as CNMTCCO, HTHL and Skaaisont, all largely indistinguishable from one another.
Residents have received a desperate letter from all the GPs at Woodstock Surgery detailing the dire predicament they currently face.
The pensioner vote has been a key battleground in this election. One of the Conservatives’ key pledges was the introduction of the “triple lock plus”, a higher tax-free personal allowance for the retired.
Millions of passengers could be compensated for late flights if a landmark legal case against British Airways and easyJet proves successful. British Airways and easyJet are battling to throw out the case, which risks forcing airlines to pay out hundreds of millions of pounds to passengers over late flights.
After the stunning performance of the Rolls-Royce share price in the past 18 months, can it keep going? This writer looks at some potential scenarios. The post £1, £2, £3, £4: what’s to stop the Rolls-Royce share price reaching £10? appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.
The mercantile history of Guangzhou, the city once called Canton that is about two hours' drive from Hong Kong, can be traced back to Wu Bingjian, one of the richest men to have ever lived on Earth. Better known among foreigners as Howqua, the 18th-century merchant accumulated enormous wealth running one of the 13 trading houses, or hong, that were granted exclusive rights by the Manchu rulers in Peking to sell tea, porcelain, silk and other exotic goods to Westerners, until the Opium War shatte
The farm-equipment manufacturer will lay off about 600 employees across three US factories as it shifts production to a newly planned facility in Ramos, Mexico.
A Dartford McDonald’s is reopening next week after a huge revamp which includes a “McDelivery only” area for delivery drivers.
The European Union has slapped extra provisional duties of up to 38 percent on Chinese electric car imports because of "unfair" state subsidies, despite Beijing's warnings the move would unleash a trade war. But company reps in both China and Europe are critical of the steps. Brussels launched an investigation last year into Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers to probe whether state subsidies were unfairly undercutting European automakers.Since announcing the planned tariff hike last month, o
Employees were notified of the restructuring in late June via a Zoom meeting, according to reports
The big trouble with couples retiring at different times? The impact on long-term financial security.
Apple unfairly sacked an employee at its London headquarters who took secret photos of a female colleague and shared them with other staff, a judge has ruled.
For the first time, Chinese government workers will be able to purchase Tesla’s Model Y for official use. Specifically, officials in eastern China’s Jiangsu province included the Model Y in a government procurement list, which was also reported in the state-owned publication The Paper. As the only foreign-owned electric vehicle company on the list, Tesla’s inclusion is a sign that the company’s efforts to win over the Chinese government are paying off.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - China's anti-dumping probe into Europe's cognac industry is a tit-for-tat reaction to European Union tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, the finance chief at Hennessy cognac owner LVMH said on Saturday. China announced plans on Friday for a hearing on European brandy imports, ramping up tension on the same day the European Commission's provisional tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles took effect.
Despite high inflation, Vanguard found that Americans set aside funds for retirement at the highest rates ever.
WorkSafeBC has fined a Richmond, B.C.-based packing company almost $300,000 after falling pallets struck and killed a worker.The incident occurred in December 2022 at a warehouse belonging to the Great Little Box Company (GLBC), which handles packaging for a wide range of industries from beauty to manufacturing to food and beverage. At the time, a forklift operator was taking down a row of six loaded pallets of boxes that reached over six metres high when he left to chat with a coworker, accordi
A former detective has shared a chilling new timeline of the movements of missing teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife, and claimed his disappearance is linked to an 'established criminal network'
'I opened Apple Home and saw a mob of ant-like people swarming around inside'
Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton had a big fall out regarding Princess Charlotte in the lead up to Meghan and Prince Harry's wedding, causing a 'rift' between the pair
In September 2002, the astronaut Buzz Aldrin – the second man to walk on the Moon – was confronted in Beverly Hills by a camera crew led by Bart Sibrel. Sibrel, the creator of several documentaries alleging that the Moon landings never happened, shoved a Bible at Aldrin and demanded he swear on it that he wasn’t lying about walking on the Moon, before calling him “a coward and a liar”.
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