
Bonmarche gets new lease of life by opening at least seven new stores!
After it collapsed into administration twice from 2019, Bonmarche has found a new lease of life by opening at least seven new stores.
2023-09-22 19:15

Tom Odell pulls apart his appearance on honest new song Black Friday
Tom Odell has released the raw new song 'Black Friday' about his insecurities.
2023-09-22 18:56

Futures inch up after Wall St rout; Fed speakers, data in focus
Futures tracking Wall Street indexes inched up on Friday after concerns over interest rates battered stocks in the
2023-09-22 18:53

H and M becomes latest retail giant to charge customers who return online purchases
After chains including Zara, Boohoo, Uniqlo and Next started charging for online returns, H and M has started to do the same.
2023-09-22 18:21

Tropical storm warnings in place on the East Coast as system sets up to deliver a wet and windy weekend
Parts of the East Coast are in for a soggy weekend as a developing tropical storm swirls over the Atlantic, prompting tropical storm warnings from South Carolina to Maryland as the system makes its way toward land.
2023-09-22 18:17

EU set to demand e-fuel cars have no climate impact -document
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is set to demand that cars running on e-fuels must be 100%
2023-09-22 17:56

Memorial from broken headstones to mark desecrated Jewish cemetery in Belarus
When a large Jewish cemetery was paved over last century to create a sports ground in Belarus, the headstones were used to make roads and buildings. Recovered remnants are now being used to create a memorial on the site.
2023-09-22 17:45

US finalizes rules to prevent China from benefiting from $52 billion in chips funding
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday is issuing final rules to prevent semiconductor manufacturing
2023-09-22 17:27

Michigan attorney general says fake GOP electors she charged are 'brainwashed'
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said at a recent event with liberal activists that the fake Republican electors from 2020 that she charged were "brainwashed" to keep former President Donald Trump in power, and touted that their cases will get juries from a "very Democratic-leaning county," according to a recording obtained by CNN.
2023-09-22 17:25

Mel B reveals fitness secrets for women in 'later years'
Mel B has urged people to "embrace" body confidence and not be put off by the gym in their later years.
2023-09-22 17:22

Historian explains why TikTok is so obsessed with the Roman Empire
If TikTok is to be believed, American men are absolutely obsessed with ancient Rome – and now a historian has explained why. The trend: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” has swept the social media platform in recent weeks. Scores of women have posted about how often their husbands or boyfriends said they think about it. More often than not, it’s more than once a day. But why the fascination? Historian Tom Holland could have the answer – and it doesn’t reflect well on America. Firstly, he writes in Time magazine, it is likely to be something more “visceral” than the great orators and writers like Cicero and Ovid, whose work still gets academics excited 2,000 years later. Instead, he says, it is because the Roman empire was “the apex predator of antiquity: powerful, terrifying, box-office”. Not only this, he adds, but the fact that it was so long ago means modern audiences don’t feel as uncomfortable with the cruel and violent acts of the Roman Empire as with more recent examples. “The Romans, much like the dinosaurs, are not merely glamorous—they are also safely extinct.” However, writes Holland, an author and co-host of podcast The Rest Is History, there is more to it than that: “Romans, more than any other ancient people, seem to offer America a distorted reflection of itself.” @theyaresam_ the roman empire is actually fascinating “Just as American conservatives today look back wistfully to the Founding Fathers as patrons of an age of rugged independence and virtue, so did the Founding Fathers look back with an equal wistfulness to the early years of Rome. “There, for any infant republic victorious in a war against a great monarchy, was a morality tale to be found that could hardly help but serve as inspiration. “The Romans, like the Americans, had originally been ruled by a king; then, resolved no longer to live in servitude, they had dared all in a heroic and ultimately successful campaign to expel him.” The picture gets less rosy when you look to 21st century comparisons, he continues. Both the US and Rome suffered from from wars in Iraq, the rise of rival superpowers, “political vendettas pursued in the law courts” and “the emergence of radicals preaching that the last will be first, and the first will be last, to the excitement of many, and the consternation of others”. When Americans think of Rome, Holland concludes, they are thinking of a civilisation that is both “strange and familiar; terrifying and glamorous; safely extinct and the image of themselves”. Let's just hope the US doesn't suffer the same fate as the Roman Empire any time soon. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-09-22 16:53

US opens probe into about 240,000 Ford EcoSport vehicles -NHTSA
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a preliminary evaluation of about 240,000 2018-2021 Ford
2023-09-22 16:24