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Texas has been hit by its fifth explosion this month as police hunt a suspected serial bomber. A FedEx worker was injured after a package containing nails and shrapnel blew up at a distribution centre in the San Antonio town of Schertz.The package had reportedly been bound for Austin – the state capital where a series of blasts in March has so far killed two people.On Sunday, two men, aged 22 and 23, were seriously injured in an explosion involving a tripwire device. Video: Deadly Texas parcel bomb attacks ‘linked’ The FedEx employee is believed to have suffered non-life threatening…

Inflation fell to a seven-month low last month raising hopes there has been a “turning point” in Britain’s Brexit-linked cost-of-living squeeze. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of inflation fell to 2.7% in February, from 3% the month before, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).That raises the prospect that wage growth, which has been lagging behind price increases and leaving consumers feeling worse off, could catch up soon.Phil Gooding, ONS head of CPI, said: “Many of the early 2017 price increases due to the previous depreciation of the pound have started to work through the system.”Lower petrol prices…

Plans to crack down on irresponsible bosses of failed companies – and give increased protection to affected workers and suppliers – have been announced by the Government. It follows controversy over the recent collapse of construction and outsourcing giant Carillion and before that the demise of retailer BHS.The Government said that most firms were run responsibly but that recent cases had raised concerns that company directors could “unfairly shield themselves from the effects of insolvency and – in the worst cases – profit from business failures while workers and small suppliers lose out”.Proposals include clawing back money for workers and…

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is being held by police in connection to alleged campaign funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Mr Sarkozy is being questioned as part of an investigation into “irregularities” in election campaign financing, a French court source told Reuters.He is said to have accepted €50m from Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, claims which have been repeated by the late Libyan dictator’s son and French businessman Ziad Takieddine. Image: Nicolas Sarkozy (L) greets Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007 in Paris The amount would be more than double the legal spending limit in French elections at that time,…

A toddler who died after being rescued from a car in a river has been called an “incredible happy young girl” who lived “a great adventurous fun life”. Kiara Moore was a week away from her third birthday when she was found in the silver Mini after police discovered it in the River Teifi in Cardigan, west Wales.Officers had received a call about the missing Mini at 3.30pm on Monday and it was found just after 5pm.Kiara was taken to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff but did not survive.On Monday afternoon, numerous Facebook posts claimed a silver Mini had…

The foster parents of the Parsons Green bomber Ahmed Hassan have told Sky News of the dramatic moment armed police raided their home. Describing Ahmed as a “good boy”, Penny Jones says she has no idea what turned the “quiet” Iraqi asylum seeker who she took in and who called her “mum” into someone who wanted to kill commuters at rush hour in London.Mrs Jones said she and her husband Ron were watching darts at their Surrey home when the phone rang.Irritated at being interrupted, Penny described how she reluctantly answered the phone and snapped “hello” at the caller.She said:…

The accounting watchdog has launched an investigation into two former finance directors of collapsed construction and outsourcing giant Carillion. Richard Adam and Zafar Khan are to be investigated over the company’s financial statements for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 as well as the first half of 2017, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said.The FRC has powers to impose unlimited fines or ban members from professional accounting bodies.It said its investigations would be undertaken “as quickly and thoroughly as possible”.Mr Adam was Carillion’s finance director from 2007 until the end of 2016 and he was succeeded by Mr Khan, who…

The Gambling Commission has recommended the maximum stake for fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) should be set at £30 or less. Shares in bookmakers William Hill and Ladbrokes Coral were up 4% in early trading as the proposals stopped short of speculation that the commission would go further.Anti-FOBT campaigners – who call the terminals the “crack cocaine of gambling” – have criticised the regulator for failing to adopt a maximum stake of £2.High-speed electronic casino games are said to be dangerously addictive and currently allow a stake of up to £100 every 20 seconds, enabling a player to theoretically gamble away…

Vladimir Putin has dismissed claims that Russia was behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury as “nonsense”. In his first public comments about the nerve agent attack, the Russian President said Moscow was ready to cooperate with the British Government on the investigation.He called the poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia a “tragedy”, but said they would have died instantly if it was true they had been poisoned by a “military-grade nerve agent”.”The first thing I thought was that if it was a real poison, they would have just died. They wouldn’t be in hospital,”…

Vladimir Putin has swept to a landslide victory to secure a fourth term as Russian President, keeping him in power for six more years. In a widely expected win, Mr Putin secured more than 76.66% of the vote and a turnout of 67.47%, the Central Election Commission said.The result came amid allegations of election violations, including ballot-box stuffing and forced voting.Addressing a crowd near Moscow’s Red Square, Mr Putin said his victory was a vote of confidence in his achievements. Image: Mr Putin has dismissed claims Russia is behind the Salisbury poisoning as ‘nonsense’ “It’s very important to maintain this…