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SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia congressman moved Friday to cease a federal company from imposing new velocity restrictions on boats and ships with a purpose to shield critically endangered whales. ...

LONDON — “Titanic” director James Cameron says the search operation for a deep-sea vacationer sub became a “nightmarish charade” that extended the agony of the households of the passengers. ...

About 7.5 million singing and swimming “Baby Shark” tub toys are being recalled after a number of lacerations and puncture wounds have been reported in kids enjoying with them. ...

Average mounted mortgage charges are largely unchanged following the Bank of England's shock announcement of a 5% base rate of interest, in keeping with a monetary info firm.There has been no change to the common mortgage charge for a two-year mounted deal, Moneyfacts information confirmed. The charge has remained at 6.19%, the identical because the day earlier than. Only a small enhance was recorded for a 5 12 months mounted deal - the figures confirmed the common charge crept from 5.82% on Thursday to five.83% on Friday.The rising common charges seen by way of June and late May could clarify why no dramatic will increase got here on Friday.Lenders had been pricing in anticipated charge rises to their providing as inflation proved cussed, including strain on the Bank of Engl...

PHOENIX — Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic defector turned unbiased who’s been criticized as too intently aligned with Wall Street pursuits, took credit score Thursday for serving to dealer laws that will goal executives of failed banks. ...

After the Bank of England raised rates of interest to five%, Ian King analyses the affect on mortgage prospects with Simon French from funding financial institution Panmure Gordon and Polly Gilbert, managing director of mortgage dealer Tembo.There's a deal with female-owned enterprise with Winnie Chiu, president of Dorsett Hospitality International, and on ladies in engineering with Dr Hayaatun Sillem, chief govt of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. King is in dialog with former Apprentice star Susie Ma about why she took full management of her Tropic Skincare enterprise - after shopping for out Lord Sugar's 50% stake.He can also be joined by Neil Wright, managing director of TensCare to speak about increasing its compa...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine desires different nations to heed its warning that Russia could also be planning to assault an occupied nuclear energy plant to trigger a radiation catastrophe, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned. ...

Security workers at Heathrow Airport have referred to as off all strikes having voted in favour of a pay deal.Members of the Unite union had been as a result of stroll out practically each weekend from mid-June till the tip of August however paused their deliberate motion on Saturday and Sunday to vote on a brand new proposal from Heathrow. That supply has now been accepted.It is known to incorporate a ten% pay enhance backdated to 1 January, efficient from staff' July payslip; an extra pay rise of 11.5% from October; and a assured inflation-linked pay enhance for 2024.More than 2,000 safety workers from Heathrow's Terminal 3 and Terminal 5 have been as a result of take industrial motion together with campus safety, tasked with checking all staff and employee automobiles.No f...

PARIS (AP) — After all of the speaking, time for tangible options? World leaders and finance bosses have been set to launch a “to-do list” to assist...

A specialist financial institution headed by the trade veteran who additionally chairs Metro Bank is to be put up on the market by its non-public fairness backers.Sky News has learnt that Alchemy Partners, the funding agency, is speaking to bankers about launching an public sale of Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) within the coming months. Alchemy took management of the lender in 2014, and has steadily grown the enterprise via a concentrate on niches reminiscent of lending to fund basic automotive purchases.A sale might draw curiosity from non-public fairness companies with a pedigree within the monetary companies sector and different mid-sized banks.The valuation that Alchemy would hope to draw in a sale was unclear on Friday. HTB additionally supplies specialist mortgages and imp...