Interest rate rises likely in coming months, Bank of England’s chief economist says
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

‘We have further to go,’ says Huw Pill after increase to 4% this month as Bank seeks to tackle rising inflation

The Bank of England will probably need to raise interest rates next month and again in early 2027 to combat rising inflation, its chief economist has said.

Signalling a sharp rise in mortgage payments for an estimated 2.3 million homeowners who will have to refinance their loans next year, Huw Pill said that while the decision to nudge interest rates from 3.75% to 4% earlier this month was a “significant step” towards getting monetary policy into a better place, “we ⁠have further to go”.

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US officials say flight stoppage stemmed from ‘routine maintenance’ as travel chaos continues
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

Thousands of flights still canceled as officials blamed ageing air control system for nationwide grounding

The Trump administration says Friday’s four-hour nationwide Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground stop that delayed or canceled thousands of flight stemmed from routine maintenance.

At a news briefing on Saturday, the US transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said that the issues began when a contractor was performing “routine maintenance” at a remote FAA facility to “switch telecommunications lines” from copper wire to fiber optic cable.

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Greenpeace boulders may delay building of £12bn windfarms in North Sea
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

Activists dumped rocks off Norfolk coast on site of Burnham-backed project in protest against seabed trawling

The giant offshore windfarms backed by Andy Burnham this week may face unexpected stumbling blocks after Greenpeace activists unwittingly dumped about 15 tonnes of boulders on to the site as part of a campaign against seabed trawling in the North Sea.

Greenpeace created the “boulder barrier” to safeguard harbour porpoises off the Norfolk coast by dropping giant stone blocks, each weighing up to 2 tonnes, on to the sea floor to prevent a method of fishing known as bottom trawling.

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Guardian to follow lives of eight young people in their search for work
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

How long will it take? What challenges will they face? Series to shine light on one of biggest crises facing UK

• ‘The social contract is broken’: young people on feeling shut out of careers

Britain is at risk of creating a lost generation. Across the country, almost a million young people – one in eight – are struggling to make the leap from school to the world of work on a lasting basis.

Before the landmark Alan Milburn review, which is expected on Tuesday, the Guardian is launching a new series to chronicle the lives of eight young people battling to get a start on the career ladder.

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Microsoft says services fully restored after global outage hits governments
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

Tech company says operations restored to all customers and regions affected by one of worst IT failures in years

Microsoft has said its service has been fully restored after a massive outage that resulted in widespread disruption to governments, businesses and public services around the world.

The technology company said on Saturday morning it had restored service to the remaining customers affected by one of the worst IT failures in years. On its Microsoft 365 status page, the US-based firm said: “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.

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Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action
Posted on Friday November 13, 2026

US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang

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The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the Nvidia spying scandal as other Trump administration officials publicly raise questions over his decisions.

Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, blamed Lutnick’s commerce department for the fact the US had not imposed export restrictions on certain Nvidia chips to China.

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Wales’ Dewi Lake calls historic win against New Zealand ‘amazing feeling’
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

• ‘It’s nothing this group doesn’t deserve for their work’

• Beauden Barrett: ‘Their defence felt like a brick wall’

Dewi Lake, the first Wales captain to lead his team to victory over New Zealand in 73 years, paid tribute to his teammates, who chiselled this win out of a recent history of adversity, sometimes even humiliation. At last, they gave this rugby nation reason to be proud again, as he called the win an “amazing feeling”.

“It’s nice to sit in this room and not be disappointed,” he said. “I think we got asked a lot of questions last week in terms of performance, in terms of things that went wrong. We had tough conversations in the week [after a narrow win over Japan]. We’re a group that trusts each other a lot, and to put on the field what we did today, to make history, it’s tough to put it into words really. But it is nothing this group doesn’t deserve for the work they put in for the last year, year and a half.”

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Five-try Will Joseph equals record as England steamroller Japan
Posted on Saturday November 14, 2026

• England 78-15 Japan

• Steve Borthwick’s men score 13 tries

Not every game of rugby can deliver a result for the ages and this one never stood a chance of eclipsing the weekend’s remarkable events in Cardiff and Paris. In terms of one-sided contests at Twickenham down the years there have been few to match it although Will Joseph, England’s athletic new wing, will remember every detail for the rest of his days.

Joseph, playing only his second Test, ended up claiming a record-equalling five tries as his side comfortably topped their previous highest tally against the Brave Blossoms. From the moment he helped himself to a hat-trick of tries inside the game’s opening 20 minutes it was simply a question of how many points England would score and Maro Itoje’s side duly took advantage of the free buffet.

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