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Getty ImagesRising prices are a key factor in the health of our own finances – and this is especially true at this time of year.The rate of price increase, called inflation, measures not only how much we pay in stores, but also how much benefits increase each year.The inflation figure published on Wednesday – 1.7% – is the one usually used by the government to set the increase in benefits in April.It also comes just two weeks before the new Labor government's first final budget.Here are some of the ways it will directly affect you and the money in your…
Getty ImagesAround 1,500 factory workers took part in the strikeWorkers at the Samsung Electronics factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have called off a strike that had lasted more than a month.Around 1,500 workers from Chennai city participated in the strike to demand better wages, working facilities and recognition of a newly formed union.A union activist who supported the workers told the BBC that although Samsung had not yet recognized the union, it had agreed to respond to other demands.The strike was one of the largest the South Korean tech giant has seen in recent years.It also…
At least 10 Indian flights have been subject to bomb threats in the past 48 hours, leading to long delays and diversions.On Tuesday, the Singapore Air Force sent two fighter jets to escort an Air India Express plane away from populated areas following a bomb threat.A few hours earlier, an Air India plane flying from Delhi to Chicago had to land at a Canadian airport as a precaution.False bomb threats against airlines are not unusual in India, but it is unclear what triggered the sudden increase since Monday.Officials at the government's Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Civil Aviation Safety…
South Korean footballer Hwang Ui-jo has apologized for secretly filming sexual encounters with his partners.Prosecutors say the 31-year-old attacker filmed sex with two of his partners without their consent on four occasions between June and September 2022.During his first court appearance in Seoul on Wednesday, Hwang said he was “deeply sorry” for causing a “disappointment.” The former striker left English club Nottingham Forest last month to join Turkish club Alanyaspor.The videos came to light after Hwang's sister-in-law shared them on social media last June in an attempt to blackmail him. She was sentenced to three years in prison in September…
BBCThe tactics of an increasingly professional shoplifting gang who stole at least £73,000 worth of goods from supermarkets across the UK have been revealed to the BBC.Typically operating in groups of three, gang members wear Bluetooth headsets to communicate and alert each other if security officers are watching them.Rolling a shopping cart or carrying a supermarket basket, they blend in with shoppers strolling down the liquor aisle, nonchalantly pulling bottles of champagne from the shelves.Then one gang member will deliberately trigger the security alarm to distract staff, while another simply walks out of the store with their stolen goods.“It’s like…
BBCProfessional coaches will visit seriously ill patients in mental health services to try to get them back to work, the government has announced.Trials by jobs advisers giving advice on CVs and interviews in hospitals have produced “spectacular results”, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the BBC.She said a wider rollout would be part of her drive to reduce the UK's annual disability and incapacity benefits bill. But disability rights activists have expressed concerns about the proposals.The cost of these benefits is expected to rise by nearly a third over the next four to five years, according to the Institute…
Getty ImagesVisitors use binoculars to view the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.North Korea has accused South Korea of flying drones into its capital, stoking tensions that have been simmering for months.The drones reportedly scattered propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang, in what the North described as a provocation that could lead to “armed conflict or even war.”After making the allegations against the South on Friday, Pyongyang said it had ordered border troops to prepare to fire. South Korea, in turn, said it was ready to respond and warned that if the security of its citizens…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to make tax rises and spending cuts worth £40 billion in this month's Budget, government sources have told the BBC.At a political cabinet meeting this morning, Reeves told ministers that plugging “the £22 billion black hole inherited from the previous government” would only be enough “to keep public services at a standstill”.Reeves is currently drawing up plans to find £40 billion to avoid real terms cuts to departments, according to sources, as first reported by the Financial Times and The Times. Reeves warned ministers that “difficult decisions on spending, welfare and taxes” would lie ahead in…
Getty ImagesBishnoi has been in prison since 2015, now far from his home state of Punjab in Gujarat.On Monday, Canadian police made a sensational statement.They claimed at a news conference that Indian government agents were using “organized crime groups like the Bishnoi group” to target leaders of the pro-Khalistan movement, which demands a separate Sikh homeland in India.It came hours after the two countries expelled senior diplomats as tensions escalated following the assassination last year of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Delhi has dismissed the allegations as “absurd,” accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of preying on Canada's large Sikh…
The United States fined Lufthansa a record $4 million ($3 million) after the airline banned Jewish passengers from a flight in 2022 because some allegedly refused to follow rules requiring port of the mask. The Transport Ministry said Lufthansa discriminated against passengers, treating them “as if they were all one group” even though many were not traveling together and did not know each other.He said the penalty was the heaviest ever imposed on an airline for civil rights violations. Lufthansa said in the consent order that it accepted the payment to avoid litigation, but denied discrimination, attributing the incident to…