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A suspected serial bomber blew himself up in his car as police surrounded him. Texas police have identified the man suspected of being behind a wave of bombings in Austin Texas identified as Mark Anthony Conditt. Detectives are still investigating if the man behind the manhhunt acted alone. Two people have died and five have been injured in teh boimbing spree which started on March 2. “This is the culmination of three very long weeks for our community,” Austin Police...

Women in banking face a ‘double glass ceiling’; one when being promoted to management and another when being promoted to executive roles, according to new research from the SKEMA Business School Observatory on the Feminisation of Companies. Although women make up 52 per cent of banking sector employees globally, they average only 38 per cent of middle managers and 16 per cent of executive committees. These are the findings of Professor Michel Ferrary’s ‘Gender Diversity in the Banking Industry’ report,...

An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses of the company were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers. The murky world of big data and using social media to spread political messages to millions of people, raises more questions on the ethics and safety of the on-line world. Cambridge Analytica has been accused of using the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to...

It is with great sadness that Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the Dvůr Králové Zoo announced that Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, age 45, died at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on March 19th, 2018. The last male northern white rhinoceros has died, leaving only two females with which conservationists hope to save the species from extinction. Sudan, the legendary male northern white Rhino who has died Sudan was being treated for age-related complications that led to degenerative...

The funeral of Professor Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA will take place at the University Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, on the 31st March 2018 at 2pm. The private funeral service will be attended by Professor Hawking’s family, friends and colleagues. Professor Hawking’s children Lucy, Robert and Tim said: "On behalf of our whole family we want to express our huge gratitude to all the wonderful tributes to our father and to those who have sent us...

Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire from the Conservative Government and from within his own party, over his stance on Russian involvement in the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, on 4th March. 23 Russian diplomats expelled from London following the incident. Moscow then denied all involvement, and is expelling 23 British diplomats in retaliation. The Labour leader believes it is highly likely that the Russian state was directly involved in the attack, but refused to directly...

Disaster relief charity Shelterbox has come under fire after failing to report three of its aid workers who were involved in allegations of sexual misconduct. The charity, which delivers boxes of emergency kit to disaster zones such as Haiti or Nepal following earthquakes and hurricanes, has admitted "three sexual misconduct incidents pre-2013, one of which is unproven". However, Shelterbox, which has bases in Truro and Helston in Cornwall and receives millions of pounds in donations each year, reportedly only made...

A damning study has raised more serious questions about the benefits of Brexit after it was revealed one in seven EU companies with UK suppliers has moved part or all of their business out of Britain. A survey of over 2,000 supply chain managers by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (Cips) showed that commercial links have already been heavily disrupted as part of the Brexit process, with a third of UK suppliers forced to increase their prices because of a weaker...

Mariam Moustafa Abdel Salam was set upon as she boarded a bus in Nottingham city centre