Britain

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Meghan Markle inks voiceover deal with Disney

4:09 pm January 11, 2020

London: Meghan Markle, wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, has signed a voiceover deal with Disney. The former actor, who quit the profession when she got engaged to Harry in 2017, inked a deal to work with the studio in return for a donation to an elephant charity, according to The Times. The charity is Elephants […]

Iran blames bad communication, alignment for jet shootdown

NATO chief backs assessment Iran missile downed plane

11:47 pm January 10, 2020

Brussels: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday he had no reason to doubt reports from Western capitals suggesting an Iranian missile brought down a Ukrainian airliner, killing 176 people. “I will not go into details about our intelligence but what I can say is we have no reason to not believe the reports we have […]

Top UK bosses earn annual average wage in days: research

6:44 pm January 6, 2020

London: By the end of Monday Britain’s highest-paid bosses will have already pocketed the amount of money the nation’s average worker will earn over the entire year, according to new research. Chief executives of FTSE-100-listed companies earn 117 times the average annual salary, the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development […]

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Britain temperature records tumbled in 2019

7:51 pm January 3, 2020

Paris: Britain recorded its highest ever summer and winter temperatures in 2019, ending one of the hottest decades in history, the Met Office said Friday. As much of northern Europe sweltered in a July heatwave, the mercury hit 38.7 Celsius (101 Fahrenheit) in the east of England, marking Britain’s highest daily maximum temperature on record. […]

Business chief concerned about UK parties’ economic policies

10:31 pm November 17, 2019

London: A senior British business leader has raised concerns about the economic policies of the two main parties in next month’s election, describing 2020 as the most important year in a generation due to uncertainty over Britain’s departure from the European Union. Confederation of British Industry Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn told Sky News on Sunday that Labour’s plans […]