Mark Carney, the frontrunner to be the next Canadian prime minister, has said his country is “going to stand up to a bully” after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs of 25% on Canada. Speaking exclusively to BBC Newsnight, 59-year-old Carney said Canada will “match dollar for dollar the US tariffs”. As well as levying…

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Officials have recovered the cockpit voice recorder – also known as the black box – from the helicopter involved in the plane crash that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday. Emergency responders are planning to ramp up operations over the weekend to recover the debris from the site. There were…

Shih Tzu dog named Rex adopts English pub as new home –SWNS An adorable dog was adopted by a kind-hearted pub manager after the pooch’s owner died in a car crash. The two-year-old Shih Tzu named Rex dashed into the busy bar after surviving the tragic car accident. Regulars at The Leaping Wolf in Wolverhampton,…

BBC Hayley Jarvis got a text out of the blue saying she owed her energy supplier £5,768 for her old home Hayley Jarvis was shocked when she received a £5,768.09 bill in early January for energy from two and a half years ago. “It was a vast amount of money that would have taken me…

Clay mounds on Mars were formed by ancient water – via SWNS / UK Space Agency A new British study reveals the mysterious mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water. Thousands of mounds and hills in the Red Planet’s barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks here…

Ben King Business reporter BBC Advert for heated tobacco product on display in a Sainsbury’s store in London Sainsbury’s and Morrisons are displaying adverts for tobacco products in their stores which Trading Standards says are against the law. Video screens and posters promote devices that deliver nicotine by heating tobacco rather than burning it. The…

Credit: Jan de Keijzer (Unsplash, public domain) Age-related declines experienced by older adults have significantly slowed down, according to a new study published last month in Nature Aging. Improvements in education, nutrition, and sanitation across the 20th Century likely played key roles in the improvements of cognitive, locomotive, psychological, and sensory capacities. The study—from the…

A small plane has crashed into several homes in northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, local police told BBC’s US partner CBS News. Two people were aboard the plane and there are reports of others injured on the ground, police said. Fire officials in Philadelphia said multiple homes are on fire following the crash and explosion.…

6 years ago today, the Chew Valley Hoard was discovered in the Bath countryside. Sold for £4.3 million, it is the most valuable coin hoard ever discovered by English metal detectives. Consisting of 2,528 coins minted during and after the conquest of England by William of Normandy, with 1,236 coins bearing the seal of Harold…