• PA Media: UK News

    Teenage girls ‘face almost eight years of their future as an unpaid carer’

    Similarly for older people it is women who face more time as an unpaid carer, according to the Office for National Statistics analysis.

  • Reuters

    IMF tells Asian central banks not to follow Fed too closely

    The International Monetary Fund urged Asian central banks to focus on domestic inflation and avoid tying their policy decisions too closely to anticipated moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Receding expectations for a near-term interest cut by the Fed have fed steady dollar gains that have pushed down some Asian currencies such as the Japanese yen and the South Korean won.

  • The Canadian Press

    The Latest | Seated juror in hush money trial excused as prosecutors ask judge to sanction Trump

    NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection in Donald Trump ’s hush money trial enters a pivotal phase as the former president returns to court. Attorneys will need to pick 12 more jurors to serve on the panel that will decide the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. commander-in-chief after a previously seated juror was dismissed Thursday morning. Seven jurors were seated Tuesday after being grilled for hours by lawyers on everything from their hobbies to social media posts to their opinion of the