Category: City Buzz

Ecologist Suzanne Simard has changed the way we think about trees forever, writes Lucy Siegle

The cost of a typical new mortgage payment has overtaken the average rent, according to analysis by Rightmove.

Trading Standards found that 97% of its officers are aware of suspected organised crime groups operating on their local high streets.

The Scottish Labour leader is setting out his party’s plans for the first 100 days, if he can defeat the SNP in next week’s Holyrood election.

The organisation’s latest Consumer Insight Tracker found consumer confidence fell to minus 62 this month – its lowest level since 2022.

Alex Cole-Hamilton made the pledge ahead of a visit to Babcock’s site in Rosyth.

As of Wednesday’s nearly record-high close of around $350, the stock was already up nearly 12% year to date.

The politicians are expected to condemn the Dunmurry police station attack.

Samsung Electronics reported an over eightfold increase in first-quarter operating profits, hitting a new record and beating analysts’ estimates.

( Middle East Monitor ) – The European Union is the “chief …

India’s IT sector fueled consumption growth, but AI is reducing mass hiring now, revealing a shortage of quality jobs, risking future economic momentum.

‘Doctors and patients should be aware.’

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Israeli forces have intercepted around a dozen Gaza-bound aid boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

A 45-year-old man with a history of violence and mental health episodes allegedly stabbed two Jewish men, aged 76 and 34, in an unprovoked attack in the Gold…

Results will be declared from the early hours of Friday through to Saturday evening.

Elections are being held for the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd in Wales and 136 councils in England.

Voters will elect 129 MSPs in next weeks Scottish Parliament elections, with polls tipping the SNP to once again be the largest party at Holyrood.

A suspect is being questioned by police after two men were stabbed in Golders Green in a suspected antisemitic attack being investigated by counter-terrorism officers, as victim Shloime Rand breaks his silence from hospital

A 45-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, in what is being investigated by police as a ‘terrorist incident’

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Counterterror police investigate latest ‘horrific’ attack on Jewish community in north London

More jumps for oil prices sent tremors through the bond market, along with hints that some Federal Reserve officials don’t want to cut interest rates any time soon. But fat

Leader mentions for first time lengths to which troops go to avoid falling into enemy hands while fighting for Russia

Swiss banking giant UBS on Wednesday reported that net profit rose a better-than-expected 80 percent to $3 billion in the first quarter, lifted by its investment banking arm.

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to seven years in prison for resisting arrest and sidestepping a Cabinet meeting before his 2024 martial law decree that sparked a political crisis.

Russia, which has been making inroads into the Sahel through defence partnerships, now faces scrutiny.

Defense Minister Israel Katz says the campaign is organized by Hamas under a humanitarian guise and issued sanctions against its fundraising; planners are weighing sea or air boarding while managing diplomatic fallout with Turkey, Spain and Italy

German inflation jumped to its highest level in over two years in April as the Middle East war triggered a surge in energy costs, official data showed Wednesday.

Canadian councillors scrutinise private opioid treatment; Auckland pharmacist ordered to pay damages to tenant; new US pharmacy union highlights organising at CVS London, Ontario: Councillors in the city of London …

The country had been the organization’s third-largest producer

Article 42.7 had languished in obscurity for decades – until Donald Trump began casting doubt on US commitment to Nato

Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel believes the time might be right to pursue peace talks with Israel.

The United States has still not paid off its membership fee arrears at the World Health Organization, the WHO chief said Wednesday, with Washington’s intention to leave conditional on paying

Defense Minister Israel Katz cites Section 56(b) of the Counterterrorism Law to explain the seizure of property linked to terrorist activities, as the Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail for Gaza.

The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter’s Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.

Everything from condoms to semiconductors could be affected by the war in Iran

New data shows record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic last year, with glaciers shrinking and snow cover declining, according to the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Google-parent Alphabet impressed Wall Street with its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday, as big tech rival Meta left investors lukewarm amid concerns about the huge cost of AI development.

President Trump hinted a cease-fire may come for Ukraine after he spoke with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about ending the war.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday defended massive spending on artificial intelligence that dragged down shares despite strong earnings boosted by the technology.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday that operating profit soared 750 percent on-year to a record high in the first quarter thanks to strong sales of chips crucial for artificial intelligence, and

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are headed to New York City as part of their closely watched diplomatic trip to the U.S. to mark the 250th anniversary of the

The man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump took a selfie in his hotel room moments before bursting through security with a pump-action shotgun, prosecutors said Wednesday.

An appeals court sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to 7 years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.

Ukraine is claiming responsibility for a drone attack on a distant Russian oil facility.

According to Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood patrol group, a man was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish passersby

Oil prices are hovering near their most expensive levels since the war with Iran began. The U.S. stock market, though, continues to shrug it off and is dipping only modestly

A rescue operation to transport a young male humpback to deeper waters in the North Sea after it became stranded in the Baltic Sea is under way

Month-long mission to save animal in Baltic sea off Germany has attracted national frenzy