Innocence Project / Ilana Panich-Linsman Robert Roberson’s case is the latest in a string of high-profile death row cases that have received public attention in recent weeks For more than 20 years, Robert Roberson has been awaiting an execution for a crime he says never happened. He was sentenced in 2003 for the death of…
BBC Job coaches will visit seriously ill patients on mental health wards to try to get them back to work, the government has said. Trials of employment advisers giving CV and interview advice in hospitals produced “dramatic results”, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the BBC. She said a wider roll out would form…
This is wonderful news I never thought I’d be around to hear, that Parliament is going to vote on a Bill to legalise assisted dying. Of course there will be very careful precautions. We must protect vulnerable people. But it means that maybe, just maybe, terminally ill people like me will be allowed to say,…
There was a surreal moment on social media on Sunday night when a video, external showed Ronaldo throwing himself down a waterslide at the hotel Portugal were based at. The only thing missing was the noise of the Al Nassr striker’s trademark ‘siu’ celebration echoing round the plastic flume as he flew down it. Then…
PETALING JAYA: Curlec by Razorpay, a leading fintech payment gateway service provider, hopes the government will create more opportunities in the market for payment solutions providers. Co-founder and CEO Zac Liew said such an initiative will continue bridging the gap between businesses and financial institutions to reach the underbanked and underserved markets. He pointed out…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office intervened in 2019 to keep Han Dong off a House of Commons committee probing Canada’s relations with China, according to testimony from Trudeau’s most senior staff. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefed security-cleared Liberal officials during the 2019 election about “irregularities” related to Dong’s nomination as the party’s candidate…
Getty Images Dame Shirley Bassey’s jewellery collection has sold for a collective price of 2.2 million euros Dame Shirley Bassey’s jewellery collection has smashed a world record in a Paris auction with all of the lots belonging to the singer selling for a collective price of 2.2 million euros (£1.8 million). Bassey, who grew up…
Before she was a New York Times bestselling author, a top-ranked Peloton instructor, and one of Time magazine’s 2023 Latino Leaders, Robin Arzón was very much in a different part of the job market, specifically in the world of law. The successful multi-hyphenate left her role as a corporate litigator at a New York City…
Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and his allies have spent tens of millions of dollars on political ads focusing on transgender rights issues in the weeks leading up to the election. The Trump campaign has spent more than $19 million on two television ads that have aired nearly 55,000 times since Oct. 1,…
By John-Paul Ford Rojas Updated: 22:05 BST, 15 October 2024 Total public debt across the world will top $100 trillion (£77 trillion) for the first time by the end of this year, according to a stark forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As Rachel Reeves struggles to make her Budget numbers add up, the…
