Social media giant WhatsApp has triggered a wave of outrage after it announced it was reducing its minimum age of use by three years from 16 to 13. The messaging company, owned by Meta, announced the change earlier this week. In response,
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have surged to $236 billion annually, with sexual exploitation responsible for three-fourths of the earnings. The International Labor Organization has reported a 37% increase in profits from forced labor compared to a decade ago. Forced labor
Four more of the biggest banks in the United Kingdom are set to announce record profits this year. The last year saw lenders benefit from higher borrowing costs, although they will face questions over the outlook for the year ahead. Barclays, HSBC,
She accused the Prime Minister of possibly standing to profit from the Moderna Covid vaccine. But she was accused of having “quite the brass neck” in her weekend bid to garner sympathy. And Conservative peer Baroness Altmann demanded Baroness Mone apologise to
NatWest made a £3.6billion profit in the first half of 2023, beating its profits forecast and registering a strong performance. The bank’s interim results come in the middle of a scandal sparked by Nigel Farage over the closure of his Coutts bank
Taxpayers will receive a boost from profits generated by the Royal family’s wind farms. The Sovereign Grant, money used to fund the royals on engagements across the globe, is linked to the net profits generated from the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter’s company is alleged to have spent thousands of pounds in Covid loans on third-party consultancy expenses and other costs – despite making vast profits. Matrix Group Ltd run by Hannah Ingram-Moore, took in £227,532 in 2020. That
The King has raked in £26.2 million from the profits of the monarch’s private Duchy of Lancaster property empire this year. Profits from the reigning monarch’s hereditary estate are up nine per cent on the figure of £24 million in 2022, the
The King and the Treasury have been dealt a multi-million-pound blow as Scotland hangs on to soaring profits from wind farms on Crown-owned property. Its devolved government raked in £60million profits over five years from the Crown Estate Scotland. An even bigger
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran (IRGC) stands to take control of Iran’s economy by gaining full power over the “economic arteries” of the country, according to an anti-regime group. “The documents unveiled by the MEK unequivocally demonstrate that regime Supreme