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  • Japanese automaker Nissan cuts 9,000 jobs as its vehicles fail to sell

    TOKYO (AP) — Nissan reported Thursday a loss for the latest fiscal quarter as its vehicle sales sank while costs and inventory ballooned, prompting the Japanese automaker to slash 9,000 jobs.

  • Cher left David Walliams mortified with embarrassing encounter at Italy restaurant

    Singer ‘clearly couldn’t have given a s***’ about the ‘Little Britain’ star

  • What we know about Clarkson's Farm season four

    Filming for Clarkson's Farm season 4 is underway, so what can we expect from the Prime Video show?

  • UK politics live: Ex-Trump aide warns Starmer that president-elect won’t forget Lammy’s ‘Neo-Nazi’ jibe

    After Donald Trump’s victory in the US election, attention has turned to comments made by foreign secretary David Lammy six years ago

  • Hillary Clinton Looks To The Future After Kamala Harris's Election Loss

    'What we as citizens do now will make the difference between a nation that moves forward or one that falls back'

  • The Day of the Jackal on Sky review: slick, stylish and cinematically cool

    4/5 Eddie Redmayne is at his most enigmatic in the role of a chilly killer in this breathless thriller series

  • ‘55:’ Indian-American Thriller From Scott Free Productions Lands U.S. Distribution Deal — AFM

    EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has taken North American distribution rights on 55, the Indian-American thriller filmmaker Shyam Madiraju has made for Scott Free Productions. The deal was negotiated by Guido Rud and Matias Fontenla of FilmSharks and TJ Smith and Larry Greenberg by Quiver Distribution who plan to release the film in 2025. The film tells …

  • Joe Biden's 'stupidity and selfishness' cost Kamala Harris election, says major Democrat donor

    Democratic donors and officials point finger at Joe Biden as blame game over Kamala Harris’ defeat begins

  • India forced to lift decades-long ban on Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses due to bizarre legal loophole

    The import of The Satanic Verses was banned in India after controversy erupted over its subject

  • Biden set to address nation after Trump's decisive U.S. election win

    U.S. President Joe Biden was set to address the nation on Thursday after a stinging election defeat for his Democratic Party at the hands of Republican Donald Trump, whose stunning political comeback has reverberated around the world. Biden, who was replaced in July as the Democrats' candidate in the race by Vice President Kamala Harris due to concerns about his mental acuity after a stumbling debate with Trump, will speak at 11:00 a.m. (1600 GMT), the White House said. Harris sought on Wednesday to console the voters who had hoped she would become the first woman to win the White House.

  • Average UK house price hit record high in October, says Halifax

    The average house price surpassed a previous peak in June 2022 during the ‘race for space’.

  • Celebrity hairdresser Trevor Sorbie has 'weeks to live' after devastating terminal bowel cancer diagnosis

    The 76-year-old became the first hairdresser to be awarded an MBE

  • Surprisingly large sons: why we're so obsessed with tall celebrity children

    Barron Trump, son of Donald, and Daniel Barlow, son of Gary, are both making headlines today for being out of proportion compared to their parents. But why are we so obsessed?

  • Italy's Meloni congratulates her 'friend' Musk after US vote

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday congratulated Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who backed Donald Trump in his victorious campaign to return to the U.S. presidency. The rightwing Italian prime minister and the world's richest man have repeatedly praised each other in public in recent months, so much so that Musk replied to a joke on X in September to say the two were not having an affair. Meloni said in a post on X that she had spoken to her "friend" Musk in recent hours.

  • Why did America's most Hispanic county flip for Trump?

    STORY: The most Hispanic county in the United States flipped red to elect Donald Trump on Tuesday. It’s the first time Starr County in South Texas has elected a Republican presidential candidate in more than a century. As of Wednesday, Trump was up over his opponent Kamala Harris 58% to 42% in the county, where more than 97% of the population identifies as Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. 61-year-old Patricio Saenz Jr. is a Trump supporter and maintenance worker here. He says Harris and the Democrats overplayed their hand with Latino voters. “I think they took the Latino vote for granted and they saw through her lies. She got caught too many times lying.” Saenz did not elaborate on what he thought Harris had lied about. But he said his support for Trump has also been fueled by concerns about the economy and inflation: “And people have woken up, you know. I say, ‘We go to HEB and we can buy a fajita for $2.99 when Trump was there as opposed to now it's anywhere between $8.99 and $10.99. Recently we've been buying and doing the barbecues with nothing but the chicken. So, we're going to be flying, growing feathers out of our hair and our ears because that's all we've been eating, is chicken.” Saenz celebrated Election Night at a building in downtown Rio Grande City. Saenz’ friend Ross Barrera holds local Republican meetings here. The retired military veteran explained Trump’s appeal to his community. “He's very frank. He's not a politician that tells you what you want to hear. Yeah, he's a little bit off base, but guess what? We're not voting for a Jesus Christ. We're not voting for somebody that's a sainthood. It doesn't exist. The guy has his flaws. He's human. He's made some mistakes. But we like the idea that he's a business guy.” For the past two months, Barrera and other Republicans have organized so-called “Trump trains,” or caravans of vehicles parading through the streets in support of the billionaire.Professional photographer Roel Reyes took part: “I would say, out of 50 cars that honk at us, we'll probably get one or two that’s a negative reaction. All the rest are, you know, thumbs up, positive reaction. So, that's when we saw that we knew that we were going to get a red county this time, so yeah.”Starr County is located in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S.-Mexico border. Reyes says another reason he chose to support Trump was due to concerns about border security. “The river is about half a mile down the road and we see people, you know, crossing all over, all over the place. And that, that worries, you know, worries us. You know, sometimes we have to be on the lookout at home. Sometimes you won't even feel safe because of the people that are crossing. I've had people go through my yard, you know.”Trump’s success in Starr County underscores the boost he received from Latino voters across the country. Compared to the 2020 election, Trump scored a 14-percentage-point increase in his share of Hispanic voters nationally, according to an exit poll conducted by Edison Research.

  • UK car workers under threat as Nissan slashes 9,000 jobs

    Thousands of workers at Nissan’s plant in Sunderland are facing uncertainty after the Japanese car giant announced plans to scale back production and axe 9,000 jobs globally.

  • Trump is able to ‘look past’ things people have said about him, says Labour minister

    Pat McFadden say he thinks UK and US governments will ‘get on well’ despite past criticism by senior Labour figures

  • ‘How could this happen?’: World’s media reacts to Trump’s US election victory

    Headlines range from mocking to the explicit as Trump re-elected US president

  • Harper Beckham unveils baby blonde hair transformation from sister-in-law's hairstylist

    Harper Beckham's fashion game is already more impressive than most, despite David and Victoria Beckham's youngest child only being 13. With British style icons for parents, access to her mother's designer wardrobe and a glittering schedule of fashion events in her calendar (hello, Paris Fashion Week), Harper is no ordinary teenager - and neither is her beauty regime. On Tuesday evening, Harper joined mum Victoria at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year 2024 awards.

  • In victory message to Trump, Xi hopes China, US can find a way to get along

    Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory message to Donald Trump, following the former US president's election as the next occupant of the White House, according to state news agency Xinhua. Xi told Trump that China and the US would "benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation", the Xinhua report said. "A stable, healthy and sustainable China-US relationship is in the common interests of the two countries and the expectations of the international community," he said. Do yo