Getty Images/BBC The family at the helm of Canada’s biggest wireless provider, Rogers Communications, has descended into civil war. The bitter power struggle is now headed to court. It was just after 3am on a Sunday, and Martha Rogers couldn’t sleep. She took to Twitter to agonise about the fate of her father’s eponymous telecoms
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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The UK is prepared to take legal action against France over the ongoing row about post-Brexit fishing rights, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned. Last month, the UK and Jersey denied permits to dozens of French boats
Getty Images Barclays boss Jes Staley has quit in a shock exit after a probe into his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The City watchdog and Bank of England have been investigating if Mr Staley’s relationship to the dead financier was closer than first thought. Barclays said it had been made aware of the
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The world is at “one minute to midnight”, having run down the clock on waiting to combat climate change, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. He was speaking as world leaders gather for the landmark COP26 climate
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is not in favour of a proposed coal mine in Cumbria, but that the decision “is not mine to make”. Mr Johnson spoke to the BBC’s climate editor Justin Rowlatt ahead of the COP26 in Glasgow. More on climate summit. The COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in
Reuters The Prince of Wales will tell the COP26 summit that a “war-like footing” is needed to tackle the climate crisis. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the conference in Glasgow, Prince Charles is due to call for a “vast military-style campaign” to channel the resources of the global private sector. The prince will be
Shaping up the NFL’s potential trade deadline offerings last week, two things became apparent after speaking to some general managers who will be manning the phones: Nobody is all that interested in taking on someone else’s salary-cap dump; and overvalued “just a name” players don’t have a market to speak of. We should have learned
A group of women have become social media stars after discovering they were dating the same man. When the trio found they shared a boyfriend, they soon dumped him and discovered he was not the only thing they had in common, as they also shared a passion for travel. They set about planning a road
Up to 3,000 migrants and refugees have spent the past month camped out on the streets of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, outside a community centre run by the United Nations. Many are desperate for help, after fleeing overcrowded detention centres. During one mass escape last month, six migrants were killed when guards opened fire. In this