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...The pay gap at the Department for Transport jumped 7.1 percentage points, from 5.8 per cent to 12.9 per cent; at HMRC it rose from 8.8 per cent to 12.6 per cent; while at the Department for Education it...
...It will host some of the most important and impactful contemporary art in the world, representing 136 galleries from 25 countries....
...May 3, 5 and 8; further information and tickets here Festival Melbourne Writers Festival The annual event returns to venues across this Unesco City of Literature....
...The new world champions, who were also the tournament’s top scorers with 18 goals, finished second behind Japan in their group, brushed aside Switzerland in a 5-1 win in the last 16, beat the Netherlands...
...March 1, 2 and 3....
...Kinder Morgan, the largest US gas pipeline company — so a bit like National Grid — used to yield 4.5 per cent. Its dividends have risen from $0.725 in 2018 to around $1.12 this year....
...Back to top Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach The 1.5-hour drive from central Melbourne to the world’s longest-running professional surfing event brings an opportunity to see the views from the Great Ocean Road...
...May 29-June 4 (Barcelona), June 5-11 (Madrid), June 7-10 (Porto), primaverasound.com JUNE Ravenna Summer Festival, Italy To mark 100 years since the birth of Italo Calvino, Ravenna is themed in tribute...
...More than 20 per cent have been on the hospital’s waiting list for a year or more but the number of 18-month waiters has fallen to 136, from 720 a year ago. Workforce shortages loom large, however....
...Net profit at Stellantis, the Jeep and Peugeot owner, rose by a third to €8bn, driven by record North American margins of 18 per cent....
...Among his prized holdings is a Bugatti Veyron that stickers at $1.9mn....
...Average energy costs as a percentage of turnover have jumped from 5 per cent in 2019 to 18 per cent now....
...Here’s the rest of the day’s news — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...We have a growing population of evangelicals in the country. 10, 15 years ago, this was at around 18, 20 per cent. Today, it's around 30, 32 per cent....
...Papas criollas, the small yellow potatoes used in local staple dishes, have doubled in price this year to 6,000 pesos ($1.50) a kilo....
...German retail sales already fell 2.5 per cent in September from the previous month. Furthermore, negotiated wages rose only 1.5 per cent in the first six months of this year from a year earlier....
...Wladyslaw Grochowski, founder of the Arche hotel group, offered to put up 5,000 people for free in his hotels and earmarked 5mn zlotys ($1.1mn) for the plan....
...To make the trade, which closed in May 2021, Keogh turned to cryptocurrency, which he had begun trading about 18 months before....
...First, the recovery from the pandemic — aided by President Biden’s $1.9tn fiscal boost — will raise aggregate demand and hence profits: the OECD expects GDP growth of 6.5 per cent this year, the strongest...
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...But its operating profits fell by 4.5 per cent to £1bn....
...Because men tend to be overconfident in traditionally male-dominated arenas, such as finance, gender was used as a proxy for confidence....
...According to the International Monetary Fund, Tunisia needs about five years of 5 per cent growth even to reduce unemployment to 11 per cent....
...Downing Street said ministers hoped to increase the number of home tests available for key workers to 18,000 a day by the “end of next week”....
...(FT) Strong demand for Vroom shares The online car sales app will sell just over 21m shares today at $22 each, up from a $18-$20 range set last week....
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