‘Cardboard cutouts’: Viewers confused by ‘awkward’ opening to BBC leadership debate
The opening shot of the BBC debate between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak led to criticism on social media, with viewers branding it ‘weird’ and ‘awkward’.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are under pressure to come up with plans to tackle the cost of living crisis.
"I feel like curling up in a ball and crying I am so stressed."
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The Inflation Reduction Act, a slimmed-down version of President Joe Biden's original Build Back Better legislation, includes billions in climate and health care funding. However, the bill's impact is the subject of claims and counterclaims; Republicans say it would increase taxes for those making less than $400,000 annually -- breaking one of Biden's campaign promises -- while Democrats insist it would not. Experts and independent reports say the act contains no direct tax increases on those wi
WATCH highlights as Oxford United fought back from 2-0 down to beat Swansea City on penalties in the Carabao Cup first round.
Nadhim Zahawi will visit Belfast on Wednesday where he is set to take part in a number of meetings.
A whale stranded for several days in the Seine has died, French authorities said. It had been removed from the river in preparation for a transfer to a saltwater basin in Normandy in a bid to save its life. The dangerously thin beluga had no digestive activity for unknown reasons, conservation group Sea Shepherd France had tweeted, saying vet exams were done after it was hauled out of the water following hours of preparation.
It happened in terminal 2F of the airport at around 8:20 CEST.
Donald Trump has said he invoked the fifth amendment and would not answer questions under oath in the long-running New York civil investigation into his business dealings. More than an hour later he said he "declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution". While Ms James' investigation is civil in nature, the Manhattan district attorney is running a parallel criminal probe.
Five Premier League stars, including Jack Grealish and Raheem Sterling, could feature in the sexual offences trial of Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy, jurors have been told.
Members of the Communication Workers Union are set to walk out on August 26 and 31 and on September 8 and 9 in a dispute over pay.
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The 53-year-old was taken to hospital after the incident on Friday morning in Los Angeles.
As school pupils across Scotland received their results this morning the Glasgow Caledonian University clearing hotline centre was a flurry of activity.
The US country legend said she was ‘so happy that our lives crossed paths’ as she joined those paying tribute to the actress and singer online.
Scientists are tracking the virus after China reported 35 cases.
Dominic Raab says Liz Truss' proposed "unfunded" tax cuts would "push inflation up rather than get it down" which would lead to the Conservative Party being "punished politically" in the next general election, The Rishi Sunak supporter says the former chancellor has an effective plan to "give immediate support" to society's most vulnerable amid the cost-of-living crisis. .
A starving beluga whale stranded in France’s river Seine for more than a week has been put down after it fell sick while being transported towards the sea in a risky rescue operation on Wednesday.
The beluga whale stranded in the river Seine in northern France was removed from the water early Wednesday in the first stage of an ambitious rescue operation, an AFP journalist said.
Monesa Mubarez is not going to give up the rights she and other Afghan women won during 20 years of Western-backed rule easily. Before the hardline Islamist Taliban movement swept back to power a year ago, the 31-year-old served as a director of policy monitoring at the finance ministry. She was one of many women, mostly in big cities, who won freedoms that a former generation could not have dreamed of under the Taliban's previous rule in the late 1990s.