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Republican cavalry arrives for Ken Paxton as big-bucks Texas offensive opens cash floodgates
Top Senate Republicans are pouring millions of dollars into Texas to defend Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid for the US Senate, as the party rallies behind him against Democratic state representative James Talarico in one of the midterms’ most closely watched races. The move marks a significant show of unity from Senate leadership, who had…
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‘Just worry upon worry’: Europe faces a bleak winter as supply shock pushes factories to the brink
Manufacturers across Europe, from a Shropshire aluminium plant to steel firms in Hamburg, are facing a severe energy crisis this winter after wholesale gas prices doubled in two months. The surge follows renewed fighting between the US and Iran, which has disrupted shipping through the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for a fifth of…
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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander demands air traffic meltdown report on her desk within days as embattled NATS boss who took home £2.2m in bonuses is accused of lying over IT crisis that hit 2,000 flights
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has ordered Martin Rolfe, chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to hand her a report by next Wednesday explaining the technical failure that led to the cancellation of around 2,000 flights this week. Mr Rolfe faces mounting pressure to resign after the outage disrupted roughly 330,000 passengers, with Ryanair…
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Moment giant water spout bears down on tourist boat in Italy as country is lashed with deadly flash floods and storms
A giant waterspout swept close to a tourist boat off the coast of northern Italy on Thursday morning, part of a wider spell of severe weather that has left at least two people dead and caused widespread flooding and destruction across the country. Footage captured the towering vortex churning across the sea near Rapallo, narrowly…
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Services-led growth pushes UK economy ahead of forecasts
The UK economy grew by 0.4% in July, comfortably beating economists’ consensus forecast of no growth at all, prompting a broadly positive reaction from analysts at Capital Economics, the CBI and Quilter Cheviot. The figures extend the resilience seen through the first half of the year, with Britain’s economy proving sturdier than expected despite the…
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100 years after John Coltrane’s birth, secret tapes are emerging. What can they tell us about jazz’s great rulebreaker?
As jazz marks the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth this month, previously unheard recordings known as the Tiberi Tapes are shedding new light on how the saxophonist abandoned commercial success to pursue free jazz. The tapes capture Coltrane’s nightclub residencies between 1960 and 1964, revealing the experimental process behind his shift from the accessible,…
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Microsoft annoints Rust as a ‘Tier 1’ internal language
Microsoft has designated Rust as a “Tier 1” internal programming language, putting it on equal footing with C++, C# and TypeScript for in-house development. The move, announced by principal engineer Victor Ciura at RustConf in Montréal, formalises the tooling and processes needed to support Rust throughout the software development lifecycle and reflects the language’s growing…
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UK GDP report to show if economy kept growing in July –business live
The Office for National Statistics is due to release GDP figures for July at 7am, showing whether the UK economy grew during the summer heatwave. Economists expect flat growth for the month, which would slow the three-monthly growth rate to 0.3%, down from 0.4% in the April-to-June period, underscoring the economic pressures facing Chancellor John…
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Siân Heder Brings Disability-Rights History to Screen in ‘Being Heumann’ TIFF Opener
“Being Heumann”, Siân Heder’s dramatisation of disability-rights activist Judy Heumann, opened the Toronto International Film Festival, marking Heder’s first feature since her Oscar-winning “CODA”. Following that film’s approach of casting deaf actors as deaf characters, Heder again casts actors with disabilities to portray the coalition Heumann led, giving the project both authenticity and topical resonance…