It’s Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday in New Orleans — and the annual, ebullient climax of the city’s Carnival season comes this year with some political intrigue.
This week: Home Depot earnings, home sales, Fed minutes
On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors on Tuesday releases its existing home sales report for January and Home Depot reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results.
Remains found in car in creek identified as US student who went missing in 1976
Ford Pinto found in Alabama belonged to Kyle Clinkscales, 22, who disappeared nearly 50 years agoSkeletal remains inside a car discovered in a creek a little more than a year ago belonged to an Auburn University student who had disappeared in 1976, aut…
Charity calls for ‘Awaab’s law’ to be extended to private rental sector
Citizens Advice analysis suggests 2.7m households in England struggle with damp, mould or excessive coldCampaigners have called for private housing landlords to be held to new standards set out after the death of Awaab Ishak, as research indicated that…
Britain’s farmers battered by Brexit fallout and rising costs, says union
Farmers’ union president Minette Batters to say ‘volatility, uncertainty and instability are greatest risks to farm businesses’“The clock is ticking” to support Britain’s farmers battered by a storm of rising costs, labour shortages, bird flu and post-…
Artist reproduces Alderney ‘Nazi execution site’ in London
Piers Secunda will tell story of bullet-damaged wall and forensic examination supporting theory A dark chapter in the story of a tiny British island is to be depicted in a reproduction of a Nazi execution site created by an artist whose work explores t…
Anti-strike bill discriminates against women, say campaigners
Feminist groups and TUC say public services with mainly female workforces will have rights affected by ‘draconian’ lawFeminist campaign groups have raised the alarm about the government’s anti-strike bill, which will enforce minimum service levels, say…
Google Protected Computing: Ensuring privacy and safety of data regardless of location
In this Help Net Security interview, Royal Hansen, VP of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security at Google, talks about Protected Computing, the impact of data protection regulations, and privacy in general. Data protection regulations are rapidl…