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click to enlarge Courtesy Photo / Santa Diabla Santa Diabla is Grupo Orraca's first foray into the U.S. culinary market. Santa Diabla — the first U.S. foray by Mexican restaurant group Grupo Orraca Restauranteros — is now serving customers from...

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Matt Hancock - who said 'it wasn’t the cheque' that convinced him to appear on I'm A Celebrity - has donated £10,000 to charity after receiving £320,000 to appear on the ITV show READ SOURCE...

"The Hash" hosts dive into today's top stories, including U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), praising SEC chief Gary Gensler's efforts to police the crypto industry; conflux, the native token of the layer 1 Conflux blockchain, soaring by 60.25% after announcing...

WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles: Jill Nash, Member, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship BoardTeri Hawks Goodmann, Chair, National Capital Planning CommissionMargaret A. Hamburg, Vice Chair, President’s Intelligence...

Isla Bryson, a transgender woman found guilty of raping two women before transitioning, has been moved from Scotland’s all-female Cornton Vale prison to a male facility after an intervention by Nicola Sturgeon.The first minister told MSPs earlier on Thursday that...

News that the head of law firm Vardags has instructed staff to ditch the suits and channel Annabel’s, the exclusive Mayfair nightclub, when selecting their outfits has raised some eyebrows.But transferring the dress code of a members’ club to a...

The Department of Health has wasted a total of £15bn on unused personal protective equipment, Covid tests and vaccines, prompting heavy criticism from the Whitehall spending watchdog.The department spent £8.9bn during 2020/21 and another £6bn last year on such supplies,...

Small businesses have warned that UK government plans to slash energy subsidies will cause them acute pain, and claimed that mistreatment from energy suppliers has left them exposed to higher costs. The government in January announced it would scale back...

Nadhim Zahawi, the beleaguered former chancellor and current chair of the Conservative party, is under pressure to reveal the source of about £30m of unsecured loans made to his wife’s UK property company.The loans were used to finance parts of...

FTX has objected to a US Department of Justice request for an independent investigation into the once-prominent crypto exchange's collapse, saying it is already conducting a wide-ranging probe that includes family members of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.FTX said in a...

The director of GCHQ is to stand down after almost six years in the role.Sir Jeremy Fleming will end his tenure in the summer after facing challenges such as the Salisbury nerve agent attack and the potential involvement of Huawei...

Blackstone is facing more than $5bn in redemption requests from another set of property funds, adding to pressure on the world’s largest alternative asset manager as investors try to pull out their cash. Blackstone Property Partners, a real estate offering...

Adani Group is one of India's biggest companies, and has operations in a wide range of industries including commodities trading, airports, utilities and renewable energy. It is led by Indian billionaire Mr Adani who is the world's fourth richest man,...

Russia has declared the news outlet Meduza an “undesirable organisation”, in effect outlawing one of the country’s best-known sources of independent reporting on the Kremlin and war in Ukraine.Meduza, founded by Russian journalists in Riga, Latvia, in 2014, was declared...

There has been a large rise in the number of young men referred to the government’s Prevent scheme over the women-hating “incel” ideology, official statistics have shown.A senior counter-terrorism officer described incel as an “emerging risk” making up 1% of...

El Salvador is the first country that recognised Bitcoin as legal tender. Bitcoin City has been recognised as a sustainable and highly efficient project. El Salvador is building the new city in the country’s East, with clean energy entirely sourced...

The first of two tranches of India's maiden ₹16,000 crore sovereign green bond issue this week sailed through on domestic interest at coupon rates 5 and 6 basis points (bps) lower than gilts of 5- and 10-year tenors. Bond buyers,...

The India-Egypt relationship is historical and contemporary. It is now strengthened by shared political understanding to become a strategic partnership. This is at the core of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's visit to New Delhi this week. Stronger ties come...

Shell has put more than 2,000 jobs in the UK at risk after launching a “strategic review” of its domestic energy and telecoms supply division.The oil and gas supermajor said on Thursday that it had told staff in Shell Energy,...

The price of Aptos (APT) has been on the rise over the last week. The digital asset which had been adversely affected by the collapse of FTX, which was one of its backers, seems to be finding its feet in...

Asda has revealed a shake-up of its store operations, putting almost 300 jobs at risk and reducing pay for more than 4,000 employees. A total of 211 manager roles will be removed and a further 4,137 will staff lose out...

Conjoined twin babies AmieLynn and JamieLynn - who shared a stomach and liver - are separated after painstaking 11-hour 'historic surgery'The pair were omphalopagus twins - joined at the abdomen and sharing an organBorn prematurely in October, they were attached...

The NBCUniversal Inc. Peacock streaming service is displayed on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, April 20, 2020.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesStreaming service Peacock has slowly...

TORONTO, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2023 Project Management Emotional Footprint, naming ten providers in the enterprise and midmarket spaces as Champions.With the shifting economic and technological state in 2023 and...

Everyone knows that it takes a village to raise a child, but in too many towns in Connecticut, our housing and transportation policies make it virtually illegal to build those villages. Car dependence and a lack of housing choices are...

The U.S. economy finished 2022 in solid shape even as questions persist over whether growth will turn negative in the year ahead.Fourth-quarter gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced for the October-to-December period, rose at a...

Most of the largest cryptocurrencies were down during morning trading on Thursday, with Litecoin LTCUSD, -2.45% seeing the biggest change, shedding 3.08% to $88.30. Seven additional currencies posted decreases Thursday. Bitcoin BTCUSD, -1.90% declined 2.29% to $23,034.97, and Ripple XRPUSD,...

© Reuters. By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) -Shell is considering exiting its home energy retail businesses in Britain, the Netherlands and Germany in the wake of "tough market conditions", it said on Thursday. European energy suppliers have struggled over the...

Bill Oxford | E+ | Getty ImagesIf you're banking on a tax refund, it may be "somewhat lower" than last year's payment, according to the IRS.Typically, you can expect a federal refund if you've overpaid yearly taxes or withheld more...