UK rent soars by average £3,240 since Covid, says Zoopla
Getty Images Renting a newly let property is on average £270 per month more expensive than at the end of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures from Zoopla. Rent began to soar in
Pointless jobs: the unbearable ennui of office life – in pictures
Civic administration, Tokyo, 1996 Over five years Tunbjörk, who died in 2015, explored corporate spaces across Stockholm, New York and Tokyo, photographing ‘like an alien’ in the soulless, banal uniformity of these workplaces
Judge rejects The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s Infowars
The sale of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars website to parody news platform The Onion has been rejected by a US bankruptcy judge. After a two-day hearing, Judge Christopher Lopez ruled that
GM to retreat from robotaxis and stop funding its Cruise autonomous vehicle unit
Cruise AV, General Motor’s autonomous electric Bolt EV, is seen on Jan. 16, 2019, in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption toggle caption Paul Sancya/AP DETROIT — General Motors said Tuesday it will retreat
Brazilian beef and leather companies fall short in tackling deforestation, a study fi
BRASILIA, Brazil — The next United Nations climate conference, COP30, will be held in Belem, the capital of an Amazon region where widespread deforestation mainly driven by cattle farming has turned the surrounding
Judge rejects bankruptcy sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion
A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected the sale of the conspiracy platform Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet after Alex Jones claimed that a recent bankruptcy auction was fraught with illegal
Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion’s bid for Infowars
After The Onion was named the winning bidder for Alex Jones’ assets at a bankruptcy auction last month, the losing bidder tried to stop the sale, saying the process was rigged and “fatally
Trump picks Andrew Ferguson to chair FTC, Ronald Johnson as U.S. ambassador to Mexico
President-elect Donald Trump made another flurry of job announcements on Tuesday, selecting Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Ronald Johnson was nominated to be ambassador to Mexico and Kimberly
The town that fears losing its high street to climate change – podcast
Tenbury Wells is used to floods. But residents of the pretty market town say what used to be a once in a generation event has become exhaustingly frequent. After two floods this winter
What did you Google in 2024? From the elections to Copa América, here’s what s
NEW YORK — Remember what you searched for in 2024? Google does. Google released its annual “Year in Search” on Tuesday, rounding up the top trending queries entered into its namesake search engine