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Government minister Paul Scully has failed to make it on to the Conservative shortlist to be the party candidate to take on Sadiq Khan in next year's London mayoral race.The minister for London announced his candidacy last month and was seen as a frontrunner for the Tory nomination.Mr Scully said he was disappointed by the decision but praised the incredible support his short-lived campaign had received.

Labour's election war chest has been boosted by a car glass repair tycoon promising 5m to the party.Gary Lubner, who made hundreds of millions of pounds running the company behind Autoglass, hopes his support will keep Labour in power for a long time.He gave the party 500,000 in the first quarter of the year and said this increased significantly in the last three months.

A federal judge in Florida sentenced a businessman and former drug trafficker with Haitian and Chilean citizenship to life in prison on Friday for his role in the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise of Haiti.Rodolphe Jaar is the first person to be convicted and sentenced in what federal prosecutors have described as a sprawling conspiracy to murder the Haitian leader and seize power, aided by Haitian officials, Colombian mercenaries and illegal arms shipments from the United States.

The Conservatives have received their largest donation in more than two decades from an Egyptian-born billionaire.Former politician Mohamed Mansour has revealed he has handed Rishi Sunak's party 5m helping turning round a slump in Tory donations.It follows the of ex-Tories donors Labour, including entrepreneur Gareth Quarry who has accused the Tories of making Britain a laughing stock.

More seasonal fruit pickers will be allowed into the UK if they are needed, Rishi Sunak has said after the Home Secretary pushed for lower migration.The Prime Minister confirmed during a farming summit in Downing Street that an extra 10,000 visas could be made available on top of the 45,000 currently allocated to the agricultural sector.

The Conservative Party race to be the candidate to take on Sadiq Khan in next year's London mayoral contest is heating up after another prospect put their name in the hat.Daniel Korski, a businessman and one-time adviser to former prime minister David Cameron, said on Tuesday he was putting himself forward to be the Tory contender.

For all the detailed evidence laid out in the 38-count indictment accusing former President Donald J. Trump of holding onto hundreds of classified documents and then obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them, one mystery remains: Why did he take them and fight so hard to keep them?Mr. Trump's motive for having thousands of presidential records including more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, his combination residence and members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla., was not addressed directly in the 49-page indictment filed on Thursday in Miami.

A businessman has denied paying hush money to a former Royal Marine who planted two bombs in London's legal district.Jonathan Nuttall, 50, allegedly orchestrated a plot aimed at two lawyers acting for the National Crime Agency with whom he was in a financial dispute.Jurors at the Old Bailey have heard he was unhappy that he might lose his family home, Embley Manor in Romsey, Hampshire, to pay off a 1.4 million legal settlement with the NCA.

Labour has been criticised for giving global banks access to parliament after taking an HSBC staffer into its shadow business team, despite the financial giant coming under fire over its links with China.One senior policy manager from HSBC has been seconded to the team of Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow business secretary, and has been given a parliamentary pass since February.

F our men remain in hospital after being injured in a mass stabbing at a pub in north-east London on Monday.The knife attack, which saw three victims found inside The Duke pub in Wood Street, Walthamstow happened about 8.15pm on Monday.The fourth victim was found nearby on Shernhall Street with stab wounds to his neck, witnesses said.

Richard E. Snyder, the imperious publishing executive who built Simon & Schuster into the nation's largest book publisher, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.He was 90.The cause was heart failure, said his son Matthew, who lives in California and had moved his father there as his health declined from sepsis and other problems.

Last weekend at Paul Choi and Ashley Austin Morris's wedding in a little stone church on Roosevelt Island, there was the sort of giddiness in the air that you might expect to find at an actual island destination wedding.That's because most of their guests, despite years of living in New York City, had never stepped foot onto Roosevelt Island, the residential waterfront Manhattan community sitting in the East River.

Norman Seabrook, the former longtime leader of the New York City correction officers' union who in 2019 was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for taking a bribe, was granted release on Friday by a Manhattan judge who noted an unjust disparity between his sentence and that of the businessman who had paid him off.

A businessman accused of plotting to plant bombs in London's legal district denied hiding a mobile phone in a chair after police arrived at his stately manor, claiming he was using the loo.Jonathan Nuttall, 50, is accused of deploying his driver Michael Sode, 58, to act as a middleman with former Royal Marine Michael Broddle, 46, who planted the two devices at Gray's Inn on September 14 2021.

Calls by senior Tories to abolish inheritance tax (IHT) have been met with scepticism from senior economists and tax experts.More than 50 Conservative MPs, including former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, have urged prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to scrap the tax, according to the Daily Telegraph.

The contest for the Conservative nomination at the next London mayoral election has widened further after a candidate announced their intention to run on a ticket of building 50,000 homes.Alex Challoner is pitching to be the Tory candidate with a bold plan to create five so-called market communities in the capital.

The contest for the Conservative nomination at the next London mayoral election has widened further after a candidate announced their intention to run on a ticket of building 50,000 homes.Alex Challoner is pitching to be the Tory candidate with a bold plan to create five so-called market communities in the capital.

A top businessman named as a person of interest in a global money laundering investigation has been revealed as a major Tory donor.Javad Marandi, who was awarded an OBE for business and philanthropy, was identified after losing a 19-month legal battle to remain anonymous.He denies any wrongdoing and is not subject to criminal sanction.

I am trying to dress myself quietly, but my wife rolls over and pulls the duvet low enough to reveal one staring eye.What are you doing up? she says.I'm a businessman, I say.You always say that, she says.Because you always ask the same question, I say.My wife navigates her world with reference to fixed points: she's the one who gets up early, eager to seize the day by the throat; I'm the one left behind to lie in, the laggard with a pillow clamped over his head.

A businessman whose company supplied the NHS with millions of apparently unusable surgical gowns earned £47m in dividends last year.During the Covid pandemic, Cambridge-based Chemical Intelligence won £162m of government contracts to provide personal protective equipment (PPE).Data obtained by the BBC shows at least a fifth of the equipment supplied was classified as "not fit for use".

As Russia vowed to respond extremely harshly to a rare, two-day border incursion by pro-Ukrainian fighters, the leader of Russia's largest mercenary force warned that it faced further setbacks unless its ruling elite took drastic, and likely unpopular, measures to win the war.The most likely scenario for us in a special operation would not be a good one, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, said in a profanity-laced interview with a pro-Kremlin political observer published late Tuesday on the Telegram messaging platform.

A powerful South African corruption watchdog has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa committed no wrongdoing in connection with the theft of more than half a million dollars stashed in a sofa at his game farm three years ago.The finding is a major victory for the president, who has been bedeviled for the past 10 months by accusations that he tried to cover up the theft to avoid scrutiny over having such a large sum of U.S. dollars stored at his property.

The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren't enough.So the poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into impromptu open-mic platforms for India's embattled language of love.In one corner of the festival grounds, which had been draped in vibrant colors and calligraphy, a group of university students alternated between singing popular romantic songs, backed by a young man on guitar, and jostling to recite verses of their own.

Authorities in Florida say they foiled an elaborate jail escape plan by a 78-year-old businessman who fled to France following his 2014 arrest on child pornography charges before being arrested in another country and returned to the US.John Manchec, a citizen of both the United States and France, planned to escape from prison under the guise of a doctor's visit - during which he intended for his employees to take out corrections staff and help him to escape via plane.

The Los Angeles Chargers get a surprise, the Seattle Seahawks retain a defensive back and the Washington Commanders' new ownership group is met with positive reviews.Good things are happening across the NFL with the likes of the Los Angeles Chargers, the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Commanders, of all places.

A pprentice star Tom Skinner has become the voice of the Elizabeth line as it celebrates the first direct services between Heathrow and Essex.TV personality Skinner, 32, will entertain passengers with his famous catchphrases to help mark the first services between Heathrow and Shenfield on the line's east London and Essex branch.

Dominic Hyde, 57, says next-door neighbour Heather Akinwunmi uses bass-heavy 90s dance music as a weapon to punish him and his family.He told Central London county court the noise has driven him out of his bedroom, and he now sleeps on a mattress in the living room of his 750,000 home in Brixton, south London.

The O2 in London is hosting the Just for Laughs comedy festival, with stars Ryan Reynolds, Graham Norton and more.(Image: PA) London O2 Arena is bringing comedy greats to the capitol for one week, as part of the Just for Laughs comedy festival.The four-day event is taking place from March 2-5 and some of the best and biggest names in the industry take to the stage, including Graham Norton, Katherine Ryan, Basil Brush and even Hollywood A-listers.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon capsule and a crew of four private astronauts lifts off from pad 39A, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday.John Raoux/AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Saudi Arabia's first astronauts in decades rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million US ($101 million Cdn) to settle a lawsuit claiming that the German lender should have seen evidence of sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein when he was a client, according to lawyers for women who say they were abused by the late financier.A woman only identified as Jane Doe sued the bank in federal district court in New York and sought class-action status to represent other victims of Epstein.

Labour MP Margaret Hodge said that the disclosure by this newspaper and the BBC that Mr Marandi was a person of importance in case involving a criminal enterprise known as the Azerbaijan laundromat moving corrupt funds around the world meant that if true, dirty money has well and truly crept into our politics.

A real estate developer charged in a murder-for-hire plot is facing new criminal charges in federal court, where prosecutors allege the businessman also hired someone to set fire to one of his properties in an attempt to kick out his tenants.In a federal indictment, prosecutors paint a vicious picture of Arthur Aslanian, who prosecutors allege resorted to arson and hit men to settle business disputes and avoid paying millions of dollars in debt.

London-listed iron ore miner Ferrexpo has said that the arrest of one of its biggest shareholders in France is unrelated to the FTSE 250 business.Businessman and former Ukrainian MP Kostiantyn Zhevago was arrested by French police in the high-end Courchevel ski resort on Tuesday on an international arrest warrant.

HOUR BY HOUR Visitors wearing military camouflage stand at the entrance of the 'PMC Wagner Centre', which is associated with businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official opening of the office block during National Unity Day, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Nov. 4, 2022.

Ever wonder why railroad tracks in America meander but English tracks ordinarily run straight?What was the traditional breakfast drink in Europe before coffee came along?How did the introduction of gas mains transform family life?Why did the Confederate battle flag become so enduring a symbol?Who was missing when the United States military ceremonially declared victory in Iraq?

Russia released a Navy veteran who had been detained since April in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania, a spokesman for his family announced on Thursday, marking the second time in just over a month that an American has been freed from Russian custody.Russian officials allowed Taylor Dudley, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen to cross the Polish border.

A wealthy Russian lawmaker and businessman was found dead at a hotel in India this weekend, Indian police officials said Tuesday.The death of Pavel Antov, a Russian sausage tycoon, came two days after another Russian, Vladimir Bidenov, was found unconscious after an apparent heart attack at the same hotel.

By Anna Chernova, Swati Gupta and Ivana Kottasova | CNN Russian sausage magnate-turned-lawmaker Pavel Antov died in India on Saturday after falling from the third floor of his hotel, according to the Indian police.Antov's death came after his friend and travel companion Vladimir Budanov died of a heart attack on Antov's 65th birthday, two days earlier, Vivekanand Sharma, a senior police official in India's northeastern Odisha state, said Tuesday.

Russian sausage magnate-turned-lawmaker Pavel Antov died in India on Saturday after falling from the third floor of his hotel, according to the Indian police.Antov's death came after his friend and travel companion Vladimir Budanov died of a heart attack on Antov's 65th birthday, two days earlier, Vivekanand Sharma, a senior police official in India's northeastern Odisha state, said Tuesday.

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In towering concrete cathedral at the edge of a freeway, several generations of Los Angeles civic leaders mourned former Mayor Richard J. Riordan at a Friday afternoon Mass.Riordan died April 19 at the age of 92.A profusion of white Phalaenopsis orchids decorated the sanctuary and a kilted Los Angeles Police Department piper played as Riordan's widow, children and grandchildren filed into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

A 57-year-old businessman has completed a solo row across the Atlantic, raising almost 170,000 for charity in memory of his daughter who died from an undiagnosed heart condition.Andrew Osborne, from Rutland, made landfall in Antigua earlier this week, more than 11 weeks after setting out from the Canary Islands in January.

Liz Truss has been accused of showing a stunning lack of humility following reports that she plans in effect to create a peer for every 10 days she spent in office.The former prime minister is reported to have nominated at least four new members of the House of Lords, despite being forced from office after only 49 days, following a disastrous mini-budget.

LONDON, UK Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl's classic children's books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda to make them more acceptable to modern readers.A review of new editions of Dahl's books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered.

If a buyer offers less than their $5 billion target, the Glazers have said they are undecided about whether or not to proceed with a sale.Over nearly two decades of American ownership, the family has drawn heavy criticism for its lack of investment and involvement.The Glazers are keeping their options open and the potential sale is being monitored by the New York-based investment bank Raine Group.

Coventry City's new owner Doug King has completed his purchase of a majority 85% share in the Championship club.The deal, first agreed on 16 November, has now been given approval by the English Football League after the Warwickshire-based businessman passed their owners and directors test.The club have said that the deal will clear all the Sky Blues' debts.

Members of England's Euro 2022-winning Lionesses squad are among the sporting figures recognised in the New Year's Honours list.Captain Leah Williamson is appointed OBE while player of the tournament Beth Mead, Lucy Bronze and Ellen White become MBEs.They won England's first major football trophy since the men's 1966 World Cup.

A businessman and former drug trafficker with dual Haitian and Chilean citizenship pleaded guilty in Florida on Friday to three charges related to his role in the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise of Haiti, who was killed in a nighttime raid on his residence in Port-au-Prince, the capital, in July 2021.

M anchester United, ranked to be one of the most popular and marketable football teams in the world, is currently on sale.The bidding war between Qatari businessman Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani and British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe seemed to progress before Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus threw his hat in the ring.

We're big fans of the Nintendo Switch here at Creative Bloq.Whether it's Mario action or a Zelda adventure, the compact console offers heaps of fun.Part of that comes from the versatility of the Joy-Con controllers, which can be attached, detached, fit inside steering wheels or - it turns out - even stuffed inside a toilet roll.

One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity.When the enlisted crew of a Confederate steamer disembarked for a night of carousing in Charleston, S.C., Mr. Smalls, the ship's pilot, gathered his family and the other enslaved sailors and their families.

New Delhi (CNN)Gautam Adani may have to be a very different kind of businessman now.The sprawling Adani Group, which he founded over 30 years ago, has established interests in industries ranging from logistics to mining.It hasn't stopped there.In the last few years, the tycoon has launched an astonishing expansion drive, moving into fields as diverse as media, data centers and airports, fueled by a borrowing binge.

UCLA received a $20-million gift to help establish a center dedicated to the study of microbes, which contribute to autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and muscular dystrophy, the school announced Wednesday.Andrea and Donald Goodman, president of Don Lee Farms, and Renee and Meyer Luskin, a businessman in the food recycling field, donated the money for the UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center to develop treatments for autoimmune diseases, according to a release.

US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk's Boring Company is developing a tract of land in Texas as housing for its employees.Called Project Amazing, the development will be located in Bastrop County near Austin and contain 110 homes built for workers at the nearby facilities of the Boring Company.Developed by homebuilder Lennar, the community will be situated in a largely rural area on a tract of land owned by Gappes Bass, an affiliate of the Boring Company, according to Business Insider.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A decorated former police sergeant who was forced to resign after falling for an armed robber has spoken of finding love again and how she is soon to be made mayor of her home town.

Mike Pouncey has retired from the NFL, but the 33-year-old ex-Miami Dolphins center is still living the dream.Pouncey, who has lost 70 pounds in the last year and now weighs 228, signed a one-day contract with the Dolphins on Thursday for the purpose of retiring as a Dolphins player."It means the world," said Pouncey, a three-time Pro Bowl selection during his seven seasons (2011-17) with the Dolphins.

LONDON, UK Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will publish classic unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl's children's novels after it received criticism for cuts and rewrites that were intended to make the books suitable for modern readers.Along with the new editions, the company said 17 of Dahl's books would be published in their original form later this year as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection so readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl's stories they prefer.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The US has dropped a bid to extradite a British businessman accused of conspiring to violate sanctions imposed by the US government on a Russian oligarch.Graham Bonham-Carter, 62, was arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) last October, accused of funding properties bought by Oleg Deripaska and expatriating his artwork.

Two thirds of voters are opposed to the First Minister's plans to fight the upcoming general election as a de facto independence referendum, according to a new poll.A survey by Lord Ashcroft Polls, published in the Holyrood magazine, has cast doubt on the SNP's plans to treat the election, which must be held before January 2025, on the sole issue of the constitution.

Patriots "I'm taking it a day at a time."Tom Brady hasn't made a decision about his future in the NFL.And based on the QB's latest comments, he's sick of people asking.During his weekly appearance on the "Let's Go!" SiriusXM podcast, Brady was asked by Jim Gray about his plans in 2023.

Patriots "He's going to do exactly what he did when he left New England."It remains to be seen if Tom Brady will return for a 24th NFL season.And if the legendary quarterback doesn't hang up his cleats, there's no guarantee that he will remain in Tampa Bay.But two of Brady's former teammates are already crossing two potential destinations off of the 45-year-old QB's list.

Thom Bell, the prolific producer, songwriter and arranger who, as an architect of the lush Philadelphia sound of the late 1960s and '70s, was a driving force behind landmark R&B recordings by the Spinners, the Delfonics and the Stylistics, died on Thursday at his home in Bellingham, Wash.He was 79.

Bishop Lamor Whitehead was robbed of more than $1 million worth of jewelry in July when armed gunmen entered his church during a service.He is now facing federal fraud charges in an unrelated case.Mary Altaffer/AP Brooklyn-based Bishop Lamor Whitehead, who became known nationally this summer after getting robbed during a livestreamed church service, is facing wire fraud and extortion charges in an unrelated case.

A Russian businessman believed to be a close ally of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been taken to hospital in Central African Republic after an assassination attempt, the RIA Novosti news agency has reported, citing the local Russian embassy.Dmitry Sytii, who officially works as the head of the Russian House culture centre in CAR's capital, Bangui, had sanctions imposed on him by the US in September 2020 for his alleged links to Wagner Group, a private military group founded by Prigozhin that has deployed more than 1,000 fighters in the unstable country to fight rebels.