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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 business organisation backed by the King has urged the Prime Minister to not waste any more time in making it mandatory for big companies to report their ethnicity pay gaps.

Conservative Party vice chairman Rachel Maclean has admitted the Home Office has a lot of work to do on protecting women from violence.Ms Maclean praised the Government for doing a lot of very good things like producing the Online Safety Bill, but said women did not feel safe on the streets and education for men was needed to tackle the issue.

Getty Images Renters may still be feeling the sting of skyrocketing price increases from two years ago, but at least those costs are unlikely to worsen this year, according to data from the real estate website Zillow.For about a year, typical rent prices have been slowing down nationwide, and May was no exception, according to the latest Zillow rental data.

The silhouette AR-15-style rifle is displayed on signage for the Firearms Unknown Guns & Ammo gun store in Yuma, Ariz., last week.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Gun deaths in the United States reached an all-time high in 2021 for the second year in a row, with firearms violence the single leading cause of death for children and young adults, according to a new study released by Johns Hopkins University.

The head of an under-fire NHS Trust will publicly apologise to victims of a maternity scandal as the chair of a review into the episode said the trust has a lot of learning to do.Anthony May, chief executive of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, will apologise on its behalf to parents who were affected by poor maternity care at its annual public meeting on July 10, the trust said on Wednesday.

London: a city of diversity - Nicole Cervantes, Gumley House (Image: Photo by Udayaditya Barua on Unsplash) London is a renowned cultural hub with an abundance of diverse food, cultures, and customs; it is no surprise that England's national dish is Chicken tikka masala.'The recent election of Rishi Sunak as England's prime minister (the first UK prime minister of colour) further demonstrates the country's acceptance towards ethnic minorities.

Getty Images The surging pandemic-fueled rental market has almost - but not quite - turned a corner.In an interview the day before the latest inflation data was released, Jeff Tucker, senior economist at the real estate website Zillow, said he was optimistic that annual rent growth might have peaked in March.

A podcast host accused of stirring up racial hatred suggested a politician's daughter should be raped to prompt authorities to deal with what he called Muslim grooming gangs, a trial has heard.Self-professed devout racist James Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, made the comment while discussing child sexual exploitation with National Action co-founder Alex Davies on his show Radio Aryan, later renamed Radio Albion.

Several popular Chinese apps have removed access to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has taken the world by storm even as major Chinese tech companies race to develop their own equivalent.ChatGPT, developed by the American research lab OpenAI, is not officially available in China, but several apps on the Chinese social media platform WeChat had previously allowed access to the chatbot without the use of a VPN or foreign mobile number.

Iran's national football team, known affectionately as Team Melli, kicked off its World Cup on Monday in dispiriting fashion.The side, which came into the tournament the highest-ranked team from Asia, lost a one-sided match to England, 6-2.There is time to make amends.On Friday, Team Melli plays Wales  a potentially winnable match for the Iranians  before taking on the United States in a tantalizing fixture next week.

Iain Duncan Smith has accused the Chinese governor of Xinjiang of murder as he joined Uyghur activists protesting against his reported visit to Britain.Demonstrators gathered outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) on Monday after it emerged that Erkin Tuniyaz, the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, could meet UK officials, a scenario Duncan Smith branded unacceptable.

By Karl Ritter | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine Russia's advance seems to have stalled in Moscow's campaign to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a leading think tank said in an assessment of the longest ground battle of the war.The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said there were no confirmed advances by Russian forces in Bakhmut.

The British Ministry of Defence says the impact of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine varies dramatically from region to region, with the biggest and richest cities relatively unscathed.Relative to their populations, the two largest cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg have not seen particularly high levels of casualties in terms of soldiers deployed to the front, the ministry said in its daily intelligence report on Sunday.

The break in tradition comes as Russia's war in Ukraine falters and its economy struggles under the weight of sanctions.Russian President Vladimir Putin will not hold a year-end news conference this year, the Kremlin has said, suspending an annual tradition that dates back to the early years of his presidency.

Pope Francis has sparked fury in Russia over an interview in which he suggested that non-Christian members of its armed forces showed more cruelty in Ukraine than ethnic Russian soldiers.In an interview with the Catholic magazine America published Monday, the pope said that soldiers from the Buddhist region of Buryatia and the Muslim-majority Chechnya republic were the cruellest while fighting in Ukraine.

Half of female entrepreneurs have been turned down for a loan to fund their new business - putting pressure on the Government's ambitions to boost Britain's economy, according to new research.ome women business owners called out being viewed as "part-timers" because they have children or perceived as less serious professionals than their male counterparts.

Almost 20 million children in European Union countries are living in poverty, according to the aid organization Save the Children.In 2021, the number of children at risk of poverty increased by 200,000 to 19.6 million, a new report by the organization found.Every fourth child in Europe was affected, the report stated.

Sign up for CNN's Adulthood, But Better newsletter series.Our seven-part guide has tips to help you make more informed decisions around personal finance, career, wellness and personal connections.Are snacks before bed your vice?Or do you prefer to wait a few hours after you wake up to eat?The timing of meals may not have as big an impact on weight as once thought, according to a new study.

FILE - A bust of Alfred Nobel is displayed at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, on Oct. 3, 2022.The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus have been excluded from this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of the war in Ukraine.(Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP, File)COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The ambassador of Iran also been excluded from this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of "the serious and escalating situation" in the country, the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards said Friday.

Russia has pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones, with one strike reported to have killed 25 people.Russian and western analysts reported the imminent Ukrainian encirclement of the city of Lyman, which could open the path for Ukraine to push deep into one of the regions Russia is annexing.But even as it prepared to celebrate the incorporation into Russia of four occupied Ukrainian regions, in defiance of international law, the Kremlin was facing another battlefield loss.