Employers’ National Insurance hike to raise £20bn
The chancellor is set to increase the National Insurance rate for employers to boost funding for public services including the NHS.Rachel Reeves is also
What taxes might be raised in the Budget?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has warned that her first Budget will involve “difficult decisions” on tax, spending and benefits.Shortly after Labour took power, Reeves said
Starmer attempts to define ‘working people’ tax pledge
Sir Keir Starmer has attempted to define who “working people” are, amid renewed scrutiny of his tax plans ahead of next week’s Budget.Labour promised
Time has come for reparations dialogue, Commonwealth heads agree
Commonwealth leaders have agreed the “time has come” for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, despite the UK’s desire to keep the
Horrible Histories to receive special Bafta Award
The long-running children’s sketch show Horrible Histories will be rewarded for its “extraordinary cultural and social impact” with a special Bafta Award next month.
Can families returning after centuries solve S Korea’s population crisis?
At first glance, Dunpo Elementary is no different from the thousands of elementary schools dotted across South Korea.But look just beneath the surface and
Lost Silk Road cities discovered in Uzbek mountains
Archaeologists have found the remains of two medieval cities in the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan, a discovery that could shift our understanding of
A Nigerian at heart
Despite his early success with England’s youth teams, including winning the Under-20 World Cupin 2017, Lookman’s decision to represent Nigeria at senior level was always
‘Big’ Nigerian actor shoots new film at scrapyard
A movie star who described himself as “one of the great actors in Nigeria” said shooting scenes for his latest film in Suffolk and
It’s our moonshot’: Why scientists are drilling into volcanos
I’m in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of
Nigeria drops charges against Binance cryptocurrency boss
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has dropped a money-laundering case against a top cryptocurrency executive to allow him to get medical treatment abroad.Tigran Gambaryan, a US
Chancellor to change debt rules to release billions
The government will change its self-imposed debt rules in order to free up billions for infrastructure spending, the chancellor has told the BBC.Rachel Reeves
‘My nephews died in tanker blast trying to stop petrol scoopers’
Nigerian farmer Mustapha Majiya is still reeling from losing almost 50 members of his extended family this week after an overturned fuel tanker exploded,
Trans socialite did serve her jail term, Nigerian panel finds
A Nigerian investigative panel has dismissed allegations that transgender socialite Bobrisky, sentenced to six months in jail for abusing the national currency, lived in
Lebanon: Satellite imagery reveals intensity of Israeli bombing
Israel’s intensified bombing campaign of Lebanon has caused more damage to buildings in two weeks than occurred during a year of cross-border fighting with
Turkey strikes Kurdish sites after attack kills five near Ankara
Turkey’s government says its military has struck sites in Iraq and Syria linked to Kurdish militant group the PKK, after blaming it for an
India evacuating more than a million people as Cyclone Dana nears
Authorities in India are evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the path of an approaching cyclone in the eastern states of Odisha (formerly Orissa)
What led to Modi and Xi meeting and thaw in ties
Four years after Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in a brutal and deadly clash along a disputed Himalayan border, the nations’ leaders have finally
North Korea troops in Ukraine would escalate conflict, Lukashenko tells BBC
There aren’t many world leaders who’ve been in power for 30 years. Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has been accused of stealing elections, crushing dissent
In 1924 a risqué silent film featured a woman as US president – what happened on screen in the 100 years that followed?
One hundred years ago, a woman was elected as the president of the United States. This didn’t happen in reality, of course, but a