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UK house price growth “almost ground to a halt” in September, with property prices 0.2% higher than a year ago, the Nationwide has said. The building society also said that prices fell by 0.2% compared with August, according to figures based on its own mortgage data. It said activity in the housing market had been slow, but stable, for two years. The average home was now valued at £215,352, it said. The year-on-year change in house prices is seen as the least volatile measure of the UK housing market. Brexit uncertainty had widely been associated with the relatively static UK…

Meghan, wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, said that empowering women through education could be transformational for communities during a visit to Johannesburg University in South Africa. Meghan, who is visiting southern Africa with Harry and their four-month-old son Archie, is herself a university graduate and women’s rights advocate, and she spoke of how “deeply important and meaningful” the issue of education was for her. Meghan took over in January from Queen Elizabeth, Harry’s grandmother, as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), a role the queen had held for more than three decades. On Tuesday Meghan announced three new…

Prince Harry visited the Mauwa Health Centre in Malawi. Harry is expected to leave later in the day to join his family in Johannesburg, South Africa. As well as going on a tour of the Mauwa Health Centre in Blantyre, Malawi, Prince Harry met with workers and saw a pharmacy and youth reproductive health outreach programme.  Malawi is the final leg of his solo journey on which he has also visited Botswana and Angola. Both the United States and Britain have supported, via this project, the introduction of solar-powered storage units to provide life-saving medicines where they are most needed.…

Finance minister Sajid Javid pledged to prepare Britain for a no-deal Brexit, saying the “full armoury of economic policy” would be on hand if needed. Speaking at his party’s annual conference in Manchester a month before Britain is due to leave the EU, Javid said he had asked his department to prepare a comprehensive economic response, working with the Bank of England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has split parliament, his party and the electorate by promising to deliver Brexit on Oct. 31, with or without a transition agreement – potentially risking food, medicine and fuel shortages. To get a deal,…

More than 20,000 Russians took to the streets of Moscow on Sunday to demand the release of protesters jailed over the summer in what opponents of the Kremlin say is a campaign to stifle dissent. The protesters were arrested at rallies that flared in July when opposition politicians were barred from a local election. Allegations of police brutality and what many Muscovites saw as harsh jail sentences have sparked an unusual public outcry. Several people have been sentenced to up to four years in jail, and others are being prosecuted for crimes such as violence against police officers.

Britain’s Prince Harry met with Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika in Linlongwe on Sunday during a solo leg of his southern African trip with wife Meghan and their son Archie. Joining Mutharika for talks at Malawi’s State House, the Duke of Sussex spoke about his visit to Nalikule College earlier in the day where he met women from an alumni network whose education was supported by the international NGO CAMFED. Though Harry has met Mutharika on a number of occasions and visited Malawi several times privately, this was his first visit in an official capacity.On Monday Harry will fly to…

With India set to impose a nationwide ban on several single-use plastics ranging from bags, cups and straws on Wednesday (October 2), many are cheering the environment-friendly move while some, quintessentially those belonging to the plastic industry, are living in the fear of loss of employment. In an Independence Day speech on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged people and government agencies to “take the first big step” on October 2 towards freeing India of single-use plastic. However, what is being termed as India’s most sweeping measure yet to stamp out single-use plastics from cities and villages that…

Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz praised U.S. President Donald Trump in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday (September 26). In 2017 President Trump broke with long-standing U.S. policy when he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imperiling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike. Katz also singled out Trump’s hard-line policy towards Iran, saying, “I call on the international community to support President Trump’s “maximum pressure policy’ against Iran. This is the way to stop them. We must stop Iran today, in order to prevent war tomorrow,” he added.…

The anger directed against MPs over Brexit is “not surprising”, the PM’s adviser, Dominic Cummings, has said. The former Vote Leave campaign director said the only way the issue of abuse would be solved is if MPs “respect” the result of the EU referendum. Mr Cummings’s remarks came after Boris Johnson defended language he used in Parliament amid criticism from MPs. The parliamentary tensions have led 120 archbishops and bishops to warn against “further entrenching our divisions”. The intervention followed an ill-tempered debate on Wednesday, as MPs returned to Parliament after the Supreme Court ruled the suspension of Parliament was…

The parent firm of British Airways has issued a profit warning on the back of costly strikes at the airline and weaker bookings. International Airlines Group (IAG) said the 48-hour action by pilots earlier this month, which forced the airline to scrap almost all its flights over the two days, cost it an estimated €137m (£121m). It also pointed to a €33m (£29.2m) cost from further passenger disruption as a result of threatened strikes by staff at Heathrow Airport. Another cost headwind, IAG said, was from weaker booking trends in its budget Vueling and LEVEL operations, with an expected impact…