Deliveroo has made an annual profit for the first time, after a bumpy few years since a disastrous stock market listing that earned the takeaway delivery company the nickname “flopperoo”.more

An engine on an American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab jet caught fire after the plane diverted to Denver on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of passengers using emergency slides, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The airline said all 172 passengers and six crew members had exited the plane.more

Teachers in England are abandoning the classroom over worsening pupil behaviour, stagnant pay and inflexible working practices, leaving vacancies at their highest rate on record, according to a report.more

Ukrainian forces appear to be withdrawing under pressure from the Kursk region under US pressure, more than seven months after they occupied part of the region in western Russia, the French daily Le Monde reported yesterday, citing Ukrainian observers and a lack of reports of intense fighting.more

Paweł Wąsek took 17th place in the Ski Jumping World Cup competition in Oslo. Kamil Stoch was 20th, Dawid Kubacki - 22nd, Aleksander Zniszczoł - 28th, Jakub Wolny - 31st, and Maciej Kot - 44th. The winner was the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi, ahead of the Austrian Jan Hoerl and the German Karl Geiger.more

Beatles star John Lennon has been immortalised on a new coin to coincide with the year he would have celebrated his 85th birthday. It has been issued by The Royal Mint to honour Lennon's life and record-breaking career.more

"We should no longer allow ourselves to be treated with disrespect, enough is enough," Greenland's Prime Minister Mutte B. Egede said yesterday. Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced the annexation of the island, this time with NATO's help.more

Nearly a quarter of Britons have witnessed shoplifting in the past year and seen physical or verbal abuse of shop workers as criminals become “bolder and more aggressive”.more

Published in successive versions for 80 years, the Swedish crisis guide is a model for other countries, including Poland. By the end of the year, a similar booklet prepared by, among others, the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration is to be distributed to all Poles.more

Real Madrid player Kylian Mbappe, who has not played for the French national team for six months, has received a call-up from selector Didier Deschamps for the March match against Croatia in the quarter-finals of the League of Nations.more

Further action is needed to encourage the roll-out of full-fibre internet connectivity across London, City Hall was told on Tuesday. While significant progress has been made in boosting high-speed coverage in the capital over recent years, parts of the city are still blighted by ‘not-spots’ where Londoners struggle with slow internet.more

The lowest 10% of earners in the UK - roughly three million households - are more than £3,000 a year worse off than the poorest households in Germany and France, ITV News Business and Economics Editor Joel Hills reports.more

UEFA confirmed today that Atletico Madrid's Julian Alvarez touched the ball twice during his attempt in the penalty shoot-out series in the Champions League 1/8 final tie against Real Madrid. Referee Szymon Marciniak, after VAR analysis, did not recognise his hit. At the same time, talks with FIFA and IFAB were announced.more

British prosecutors today demanded a life sentence for the killers of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, the daughter of a Polish-Pakistani couple. The investigation found that the girl had been brutally abused and tortured before the murder took place.more

New visa rules for care providers, workers and students have been confirmed by the Government. Employers will have to prioritise hiring foreign carers already living in England before recruiting from overseas, under the measures laid in Parliament on Wednesday.more

Keir Starmer has brought the health service back under the control of ministers by abolishing NHS England. The prime minister said the NHS should be overseen by politicians rather than an arm’s-length body.more

More than 60 per cent of people in the UK have mould in their homes, according to Uswitch’s latest Mouldy Nation Report, an increase from 58 percent last year.more

Environment Secretary Steve Reed has pledged to work towards ensuring that "only rainwater" enters England's largest lake. Speaking on a visit to Windermere, Reed said the government would work with the water company, local authorities in Cumbria and environmental groups to draft a feasibility study to eliminate all discharges into the lake.more

Real Madrid, Jakub Kiwior's Arsenal London and Matty Cash's Aston Villa completed the group of quarter-finalists in the football Champions League, with Borussia Dortmund advancing earlier yesterday. The defending champions ‘Royals’ eliminated local rival Atletico only in a penalty shootout.more

65 per cent of Poles plan to stay in the country in the event of a possible outbreak of war, according to a poll by the Pollster Research Institute for the ‘Super Express’.more

Half a million people in the UK with dangerously high blood pressure – a “silent killer” that causes tens of thousands of deaths a year – could be cured by a new treatment. Doctors have developed a technique to burn away nodules that lead to a large amount of salt building up in the body, which increases the risk of a stroke or heart attack.more

Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk region are encircled, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Valery Gerasimov, declared yesterday. The region was visited by Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the first time since the Ukrainian offensive in this region of Russia.more

Russia is attempting to have the UK embassy in Moscow closed, the British Foreign Office said yesterday. The diplomatic ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to London and revoked the accreditation of one Russian diplomat and his wife.more

Facebook is constantly experimenting on consumers and even its creators don't quite know how it works. Relying on highly accurate knowledge of the preferences of small groups could also have adverse consequences for advertisers, reports the International Journal of Research in Marketing.more

Sunday will see the first of 24 races in the Formula One world championship, the Australian Grand Prix. The favourite, although much less obvious than in previous seasons, is defending champion Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull). Ferrari fans are looking forward to the performance of Briton Lewis Hamilton.more