The new Prime Minister is expected to tell MPs that bills will be frozen at around £2,500 a year until 2024 as part of a taxpayer-funded support package of up to £130bn as she tries to tackle the most significant financial crisis in a generation. Senior Tories predicted the rescue would generate enough goodwill to guarantee her survival in No 10 at least until Christmas, but warned she had a big challenge to keep her deeply divided party in line after the new year....

A man accused of a stabbing on George Street in May has pleaded not guilty and is going to trial. 20-year-old Robert Belbin is charged with aggravated assault and robbery with violence. He also faces three counts of breaching the terms of his previous release, which he also denies. Belbin, who remains free on parole, was arrested along with several others in connection with a recent rash of violence in the St....

Flückiger behauptet nach einem Dopingtest, unschuldig zu sein Knapp drei Wochen nach einer positiven A-Probe meldete sich Mountainbiker Mathias Flückiger zum ersten Mal zu Wort. Er behauptet: “Ich habe Zeranol nicht wissentlich eingenommen.” 1/6 Mathias Flückiger spricht erstmals nach seiner positiven A-Probe. Mountainbike-Star Mathias Flückiger meldet sich erstmals zu Wort, seit Mitte August bekannt wurde, dass er positiv auf Doping getestet wurde. „Ich habe Zeranol nicht bewusst eingenommen“, sagte der 33-Jährige....

Describing the pressures on household budgets as a “humanitarian emergency”, Scotland’s first minister unveiled the annual program for government as the Holyrood parliament sat for the first time since the summer recess. The emergency legislation to protect tenants in private and social rented homes comes just months after the SNP and Scottish Green MSPs voted against a two-year rent freeze until rent controls are introduced in 2024. Sturgeon also announced an increase in Scotland’s Child Payment – which she described as “the most ambitious measure to reduce child poverty in the UK” – from £20 to £25 a week for each eligible child from November....

Eine pflanzenbasierte Ernährung, beispielsweise auf Basis von Obst, Gemüse, Vollkornprodukten und Hülsenfrüchten zum Frühstück, Mittag- und Abendessen oder als Snack, biete viele Vorteile, so der Mediziner in seiner heutigen Pressemitteilung. Auch die Gesundheit der Prostata kann davon profitieren. Keine tierischen Produkte Bei einer pflanzenbasierten Ernährung werden Lebensmittel aus tierischen Produkten logischerweise ausgeschlossen. Wenn Menschen vegan werden, bedeutet das, dass sie bereits zu 100 Prozent pflanzlich sind. Allerdings käme es häufiger vor, dass Menschen einige der gewohnten Lebensmittel durch pflanzliche Produkte ersetzen und dennoch gelegentlich tierische Produkte und Fleisch konsumieren, erklärt der Experte....

Experts say the heavy rainfall was caused by higher-than-average warming of the Arabian Sea. In Sindh province, which produces half of the country’s food, 90% of crops are damaged. More than 75% of Balochistan, which covers half of Pakistan, has been partially or totally damaged. People’s houses and pieces of land are flooded. Of the 650,000 pregnant women directly affected in flood-hit areas, 73,000 will deliver their babies this month....

Just after 2pm on Wednesday, sterling fell to $1.1407, according to Refinitiv data – its lowest since 1985. The pound has lost more than 15% against the dollar so far this year, hurt by both the dollar’s strength and a bleak economic outlook for the UK. Inflation in the UK was already the highest of the G7 economies and analysts have been predicting a recession for months. But now Liz Truss has replaced Boris Johnson as Prime Minister....

Der Tarifkonflikt bei Lufthansa spitzt sich zu. Piloten wollen ab Mittwoch wieder zuschlagen – diesmal für zwei Tage. Die Gewerkschaft Cockpit sagte, sie sei verhandlungsbereit, wenn es ein “ernsthaftes” Angebot gebe. Bei Lufthansa droht ein weiterer Pilotenstreik. Die Gewerkschaft Vereinigung Cockpit ruft zu weiteren Streiks am Mittwoch und Donnerstag auf. Das Unternehmen habe “Zeit verschwendet” und kein Angebot abgegeben, heißt es in einer Mitteilung der Cockpit Association. Abflüge von Lufthansa-Passagiermaschinen aus Deutschland sollen demnach am Mittwoch und Donnerstag getroffen werden....

Thérèse Coffey became health secretary and deputy prime minister after Truss promised in her first No 10 speech to put the NHS “on a firm footing”. In an opening speech to staff at the Department of Health and Social Care, Coffey twice repeated an “ABCD mantra”: ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentistry. Speaking outside, he said the government would “make sure we deliver for patients” and that its top priority was “how we can make better use of our departments and of course the NHS in order to achieve the best outcomes

There have been ongoing updates regarding the AEW locker room and CM Punk. According to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, AEW talents have not been told anything official. Sapp noted that the people that he spoke with think that Punk will be gone from the company or will have to make “major amends” to remain with AEW. Sapp also reported that the heat from talent on Punk is “unreal.” The tension escalated after Sunday’s All Out pay-per-view....

Liz Truss was elected leader of the Conservative Party over the Labor Day weekend and will take office on Tuesday amid the UK’s worsening cost of living crisis. Decades ago, Truss attended Burnaby’s Parkcrest Elementary School while her father, a mathematician, worked at Simon Fraser University. The 47-year-old posted a class photo on her Instagram page on Canada Day 2018, writing: “30 years ago I spent a year in Canada that changed my perspective on life....

The Canadian musician took the stage at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California as part of his “After Hours til Dawn” tour. But midway through Can’t Feel My Face, he stopped his set and walked off stage, before returning to tell the stunned audience he had to “stop the show”. “I can’t give you the gig I want to give you right now,” he continued. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, said he wanted to make sure everyone got their money back, adding that he would put on another show “really soon”....

+++ 07:11 Russland erwartet schlimmere Sanktionen als angenommen +++Russische Behörden gehen davon aus, dass das Wirtschaftswachstum ihres Landes viel düsterer ausfallen wird, als sie offiziell zugeben. Das berichtet die Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg unter Berufung auf einen internen Bericht der russischen Regierung. Russland könnte vor einer längeren und tieferen Rezession stehen, da die Sanktionen der USA und Europas einen wachsenden Tribut fordern. +++ 06:41 Viele weitere Russen verlassen offenbar ihr Land +++In der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahres verließen 419....

Officers were called to the Murray Hotel, an SRO at Hornby and Helmcken streets around 8 a.m., according to spokesman Sgt. Steve Addison. “The 25-year-old victim came inside with multiple stab wounds. While some officers tended to the victim’s wounds, others began to locate the suspects, who had fled the scene of the crime,” he wrote. Acting on a tip from witnesses, police found the suspects — a 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend, whose ages have not been released — at Andy Livingstone Park....

ISM services industry data beat estimates Bed Bath & Beyond shares sink after CFO’s death Wall St is down for three straight weeks Dow down 0.55%, S&P 500 down 0.41%, Nasdaq down 0.74% NEW YORK, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes closed lower on Tuesday, the first session after the U.S. Labor Day holiday and summer vacation, as traders weighed fresh economic data in choppy trading. A survey by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) showed that the US services sector rose in August for a second straight month amid stronger growth in orders and employment, while supply bottlenecks and price pressures eased....

Comment LONDON — “Like Cincinnati, I return to my plough,” Boris Johnson said Tuesday from a lectern outside Downing Street in his final speech as Britain’s prime minister before traveling to Scotland to tender his resignation to the queen. The comparison caused quite a stir on social media, with Google searches for “Cincinnatus” immediately increasing around 7:34am. local time, in the middle of Johnson’s speech, before returning to a level normally expected of a Roman politician more than 2,500 years ago....

Η ομοσπονδιακή υπηρεσία που παρακολουθεί τον κατ’ οίκον περιορισμό του Φράνσις, Pretrial Services, κάλεσε το Αστυνομικό Τμήμα του Σαν Ντιέγκο την Κυριακή για να τον ελέγξει, δήλωσε στο CNN ο αναπληρωτής εποπτικός στρατάρχης των ΗΠΑ Ομάρ Καστίγιο. Όταν η αστυνομία ανακάλυψε το σπίτι του Φράνσις άδειο, επικοινώνησε με τους Στρατάρχες των ΗΠΑ, είπε ο Καστίγιο. Όταν μια ομάδα Αμερικανών Στρατάρχων πήγε στο σπίτι του Φράνσις την Κυριακή, είπε ο Καστίγιο, το μόνο πράγμα που βρήκαν ήταν το βραχιόλι που είχε κόψει και είχε αφήσει σε ένα φορητό ψυγείο....