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Hargreaves Lansdown boss apologises for Woodford suspension

Business /

Image copyright Rex Features Image caption Neil Woodford is unconventional and has been successful for investors The boss of broker Hargreaves Lansdown has issued an apology following the suspension of a fund it sells. Chris Hill, chief executive, said he shares clients’ “disappointment and frustration”. The Woodford Equity Income Fund, managed by Neil Woodford, stopped […]

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Michael Gove: Taking cocaine ‘was a crime and a mistake’

Politics /

Conservative leadership candidate Michael Gove has said he “deeply regrets” taking cocaine more than 20 years ago. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show he was “fortunate” that he didn’t go to prison after using the class A drug “several” times. The environment secretary said he believed the “mistake” should not be held against him

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Kamala Harris, Seeking a Campaign Jolt, Defends Record as Prosecutor

Politics /

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Senator Kamala Harris of California has, for months, faced criticism from activist Democrats who have said her record as California attorney general was at odds with her progressive reputation. But on Saturday, as Ms. Harris seeks to reinvigorate her presidential campaign, she went on the offensive, laying out a robust defense

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In Iraq Museum, ‘Things There That Are Nowhere Else in the World’

Travel /

BAGHDAD — If people remember anything about the Iraq Museum, it is most likely the televised images of it being looted in 2003 as American troops watched from their tanks. Statues too heavy to move were knocked from their pedestals, their 3,000- and 4,000-year-old shoulders bashed to powder. Some lost their eyes or one side

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Scientists feel chill of crackdown on fetal tissue research

Technology /

To save babies from brain-damaging birth defects, University of Pittsburgh scientist Carolyn Coyne studies placentas from fetuses that otherwise would be discarded — and she’s worried this kind of research is headed for the chopping block. The Trump administration is cracking down on fetal tissue research , with new hurdles for government-funded scientists around the

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