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Catch the latest Financial News EventsMinistry of Defence to offer gap year–style scheme to young people
Pilot programme for under-25s will offer paid placements aimed at introducing participants to military lifeYoung people in Britain will be offered a gap year-style scheme by the Ministry of Defence, in an effort to introduce citizens to military life early as part of...
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens moreWhen Céüze 2000 ski resort closed at the end of the season in 2018, the workers assumed they would be back the following winter. Maps of the pistes were left...
Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of powerIt was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of...
‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far
Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? These images from the last 25 years chronicle modern history in the makingAt the turn of the century there was a modest debate, mainly...