Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with a person posing as the chief of staff to US President Donald Trump. Downing Street has declined to comment on the security breach, first reported by Politico. Politico reported that officials said Burnham communicated with the person claiming to be Susie Wiles “before becoming suspicious that the contact
The current outbreak of Ebola in the DR Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest outbreak of the disease ever, the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the 2026 outbreak, “at its current pace”, would “eclipse” that of the 2014-2016 occurrence, which killed at least
Lancashire have appointed Richard Kenyon as their new chief executive after he decided to resign from the same role at Nottinghamshire. He will replace the outgoing Daniel Gidney, who is set to retire at the end of the year following 14 years at Old Trafford. Kenyon became CEO at Notts in October but is leaving
Every wave of technological change seems to arrive with a familiar prediction: This time, jobs are going away for good. The effect of automated teller machines (ATMs) on the bank teller profession reveals a more nuanced reality. When ATMs became widespread in the 1980s, many people assumed bank tellers would soon become obsolete. They were
For months we drew a blank in our hunt for Luka. And then we had our first breakthrough. One of those listed in the book, who we tried calling again, finally answered the phone. He had been the guard for Luka’s apartment block, he told us, and eventually agreed to give us the number for
Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta, the former finance chief under Kalanick, said in social media posts on Wednesday that he has joined Atoms as chief financial officer. Gupta spent more than four years at Uber