By Monday afternoon, the price of Brent stood at $90.60 a barrel, down more than 6% for the day. Susannah Streeter, chief investment strategist at Wealth Club, said markets were remaining “cautious given the twists and turns during this conflict”. Despite the sharp fall in crude, “there is still significant uncertainty baked into these prices…
Cracker Barrel’s chief executive is quitting a year after the company faced a widespread backlash over its controversial rebrand. The restaurant chain said on Monday Julie Masino will leave in August, with the former boss of Bloomin’ Brands, David Deno, taking over. Its rebrand sparked a national controversy, with critics including President Trump, who urged…
Average income for islanders is 12% lower in real terms than five years previously, a survey says. More than 2,000 people responded to the 2023/24 Household Expenditure Survey to find the average cost of living in Guernsey. It said while gross income – before taxes and other costs are factored in – of £77,619 per…
Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Argentina in protest over what it said were “insults” levelled by Argentine President Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during a visit to Brazil. Milei was speaking at a rally in São Paulo to launch the campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro, who will be running…
The mayor of Bordeaux has said he is bracing for “all eventualities”, as one of many wildfires raging in France is now 15km (nine miles) from the south-western city. “We are preparing to accommodate a large number of people should further evacuations be ordered,” said Thomas Cazenave. Firefighters in the Gironde region were facing an…
Investors who were defrauded out of more than £1m by a former Nasa scientist will get most of their money back. John Burford, from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, admitted defrauding 100 investors and was sentenced to two years in prison in 2025. Despite not being authorised to, Burford had offered trade alerts and investment opportunities in…
“He’s [Mamdani] fomenting hate. He’s supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers – Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone,” the prime minister said on Sunday. “But he’s trying to turn one group against the other. I speak to Jewish Americans, and they’re afraid right now.” He referenced a pair of stabbings in New York on…
Despite being in charge of several enormous companies, Musk regularly wades into ostensibly local disputes, not just in Belfast but across Europe, apparently gleaning much of his knowledge from people he follows on X. “You find a tutoring relationship, one in which Musk is inducted into their talking points,” says Ben Tarnoff, co-author of Muskism:…
“The whole Odyssey film in an embedded video on Twitter. Crazy,” wrote someone in a post on X. “Someone leaked The Odyssey movie in HD. I thought it was fake but it’s true,” said another user. The Hollywood Reporter said, external a lower-quality version appeared on X on Sunday, and was removed two hours later…
It is a warm but windy evening in East Sussex and we are on the hunt for glow worms. As the sun sets on the Benfield Hill Nature Reserve, just outside Hove, a distinct green glimmer starts to flicker in the chalk grasslands. This site is hailed as a “stronghold” for glow worms in Sussex…
