More than six million current account switches have now taken place since a service to make the process easier was launched in 2013.
October 23, 2019
Germany's defense minister has told lawmakers she wants to get the UN Security Council to approve a safe zone in northern Syria, Reuters cited a source as saying on Wednesday....
October 23, 2019
Starling Bank is set to notch up a million customers within “weeks” after it raised £30 million in new funds to drive European expansion.
October 23, 2019
A man reportedly set himself on fire outside the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday morning. The man was then transported by helicopter to a local hospital....
October 23, 2019
Google says it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research.
October 23, 2019
THE CONTAINER in which 39 people were found dead in Essex was not in Ireland recently but the cab is registered to an Irish firm.
October 23, 2019
THE CONTAINER in which 39 people were found dead in Essex was not in Ireland recently, but the cab left Dublin Port for Holyhead on October 20.
October 23, 2019
TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has said the Irish authorities will investigate any suggestion of links to this country with the deaths of 39 migrants found in a lorry container in England.
October 23, 2019
TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has said the Irish authorities will investigate any suggestion of links to this country with the deaths of 39 migrants found in a lorry container in Essex,...
October 23, 2019
Thirty nine bodies have been found in a container in Thurrock in Essex, police said.
October 23, 2019
Thirty nine bodies have been found in a container in Thurrock in Essex, police said.
October 23, 2019
Pub group Fuller, Smith & Turner has agreed a £40 million deal to buy Cotswold Inns & Hotels.
October 23, 2019
An Israeli military drone crashed over Lebanon on Wednesday morning near the border with Israel, a military spokesperson said, adding that the unmanned aerial vehicle fell “during routine security activity....
October 23, 2019
Turkey will not resume its offensive against Kurdish Syrian fighters in north-east Syria, the government has said, after separate agreements reached with the US and Russia.
October 23, 2019
Germany would be open to grant Britain a short-term extension for its departure from the EU if it will be for the right political reason, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said...
October 23, 2019
Hong Kong's government has formally withdrawn an unpopular extradition bill that sparked unruly protests, which morphed into a broader campaign for democratic change in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
October 23, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the destruction of South Korean-made hotels and other tourist facilities at the North's Diamond Mountain resort, apparently because Seoul will not resume...
October 23, 2019
International monitors expressed concern over Bolivia's presidential elections on Tuesday after an official quick count showed President Evo Morales near a first-round victory despite a more formal tally suggesting he...
October 23, 2019
Rioting, arson attacks and violent clashes wracked Chile for a fifth day on Tuesday as the death toll rose to 15 in an upheaval that has almost paralysed the country.
October 23, 2019
Hong Kong authorities are set to formally withdraw an unpopular extradition bill that sparked months of chaotic protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
October 23, 2019
Donald Trump was holding back military aid for Ukraine unless the country agreed to investigate Democrats and a company linked to Joe Biden's family, a senior US diplomat has testified.
October 23, 2019
Pope Francis's landmark conference on Catholicism in the Amazon has taken a vindictive twist after indigenous Amazonian fertility statuettes were stolen from a church near St Peter's Basilica and hurled...
October 23, 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won a second term in Canada's national elections yesterday, losing the majority but delivering unexpectedly strong results despite having been weakened by a series of scandals...
October 23, 2019
Japanese Emperor Naruhito formally proclaimed his ascendancy to the throne yesterday in a centuries-old ceremony attended by dignitaries from more than 180 countries, pledging to fulfil his duty as a...
October 23, 2019
The US House of Representatives has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by President Donald Trump which seeks to prevent them from requesting his New York State tax returns,...
October 23, 2019
Jimmy Carter, the longest-living former US president, has been hospitalised with a "minor pelvic fracture" after falling at his home in Georgia.
October 23, 2019
Donald Trump faced a fierce backlash yesterday as Democrats and some Republicans condemned his tweet comparing the impeachment inquiry to a "lynching".
October 23, 2019
Six men in China have been jailed for attempted murder after they all tried to pass on a contract to kill which they were reluctant to carry out in person.
October 23, 2019
Turkey and Russia announced last night they had reached a deal to avoid a return to full-scale fighting in north-east Syria, hours before a US-brokered ceasefire between Turkish and Kurdish...
October 23, 2019
British challenger bank Revolut has launched its app and services in Asia for the first time, after a year-long trial in Singapore.
October 23, 2019
US President Donald Trump's comparison of the impeachment inquiry being conducted against him to a “lynching” sparked a heated backlash on Tuesday.
October 23, 2019
US President Donald Trump's comparison of the impeachment inquiry being conducted against him to a “lynching” has sparked a heated backlash.
October 22, 2019
A teenage gunman blended into a classroom after shooting a fellow student multiple times just outside a Northern California high school on Tuesday, an attack that prompted an hours long...
October 22, 2019
Full House actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and nine other parents faced new US federal charges as prosecutors pressured them to acknowledge their guilt in a...
October 22, 2019
Protesters sang Baby Shark to a frightened toddler after his mum asked them to keep the noise down.
October 22, 2019
Snapchat has added another seven million daily active users in the last three months, while losses narrowed, the photo sharing app has revealed in its latest results.
October 22, 2019
Boeing has replaced the head of its commercial airplanes division as it struggles with a crisis created by two deadly crashes of its newest airliner.
October 22, 2019
A US veteran was reunited with his dog Patch when he requested to see his pet “one last time” after being admitted to a hospice centre.
October 22, 2019
The leaders of Russia and Turkey announced an agreement for their two countries' forces to jointly patrol almost the entire north-eastern Syrian border after the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters.
October 22, 2019
Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyers have filed court documents asking a US judge in Las Vegas to either dismiss a Nevada woman's lawsuit alleging the football star raped her in 2009, or...
