We put 15 questions about the Tube to its Head of Network Delivery, Richard Jones. Here we reveal his answers – the inside track on the London Underground from a top insider.

Explaining yesterday's dramatic events on a conference call with his Cabinet Boris Johnson said negotiations with the EU would be helped if Parliament could not 'frustrate' Brexit.

The boy was arrested in the 20th arrondissement of Paris this morning and his home is being searched by police who believe him to have links with known jihadis and a second 15-year-old arrested Sunday.

The woman, 37, is being held in an immigration detention facility after she allegedly took a trip to Queensland's Hamilton Island after being tested and discharged from hospital.

Elyse Knowles and long-time boyfriend Josh Barker have recreated Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik's famous handstand pose for a photo shoot with WHO magazine.

Forget the 60s-style bungalow. Interior designer and TV presenter Sophie Robinson's annexe for her mum Claire is light, bright and totally modern   

Tom Standage reveals a series of fascinating little-known facts in a new book. The UK-based deputy editor of The Economist examines facts and figures, including what causes happiness.

CRAIG BROWN: Q: I have an ingrowing toenail. What should I do about it, Dr Donald? DR DONALD SAYS: Nobody knows ingrowing toenails like I do, and that's a fact.

It's almost time to find out which of the final four The Voice U.K. contestants will be chosen as the season seven winner. The last episode of the season is due to air on ITV on Saturday, April 7, 2018.

Alveda King, a conservative pundit and pro-life advocate, questioned the quarterback's knowledge of the American flag maker after Nike announced that it was pulling a shoe.

This is the time when the business leaders will have to maintain their mental balance, and will have to come out of this with a solution, believes Adarsh Gupta of Liberty Enterprises

The unit is comprised of veterans from Russia's bloodiest wars, including hardened service personnel who fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine.

The first image of Vladlena Mishustina, wife of Russia's new prime minister Mikhail Mishustin, emerged on Friday as questions were raised about how they obtained their wealth.

The 48-year-old actress made the confession during her upcoming Red Table Talk as she reflected and discussed how relationships can have new pressure points amidst the lockdown.

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.Google CEO Sundar Pichai says tech companies "shouldn't get carried away" with fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and should let governments and health officials lead the response. In a new interview with Time magazine, Pichai also suggested that working from home may become more normal after the pandemic.Amazon shut all its warehouses in France because a court ordered it to reassess worker safety. Amazon said the risk of the fine was "too high" for it to keep its warehouses open, and has told all its warehouse staff to stay home for at least five days.The UK government is in talks with ID verification firms including Yoti and IDnow to develop COVID-19 immunity passports. A spokesman for IDnow, based in Berlin, told Business Insider

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.Google is working on physical and virtual debit cards as it looks to catch Apple's lead in the fintech space. TechCrunch reports that Google is working on physical and virtual debit cards which would link to an associated checking account.The UK has greenlit a £250 million rescue package to stop thousands of startups collapsing during COVID-19. Startups can apply for government cash, but must match taxpayer money with funding from private investors.Conspiracy theories blaming Bill Gates for the coronavirus pandemic are exploding online. A New York Times analysis found more than 16,000 Facebook posts linking Gates with the virus, as well as 10 YouTube videos espousing the conspiracy theories that had garnered 5 million views.Amazon

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.Amazon is facing multiple inquiries from labor regulators into whether it unlawfully retaliated against workers who spoke out about its coronavirus response. Amazon has come under fire recently from employees, activists, and lawmakers for firing workers who criticized the company's safety measures.Zoom took months to repair a flaw that would allow hackers to take complete control of a computer. The flaw was discovered by security researchers who participated in a hackathon sponsored by Dropbox last year. Europe's coronavirus-tracing apps risk an unprecedented increase in mass surveillance, experts have warned. A rift has opened up over the design of smartphone apps to trace people in Europe at risk of coronavirus infection,

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. Facebook is set to invest $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms, India's popular mobile internet service. The multi-billion-dollar stake makes Facebook the largest minority shareholder in Jio, which is a part of Reliance Industries Limited.The Small Business Administration has told thousands of businesses applying for disaster loans that their personal information was mistakenly leaked. A bug in the SBA's site was mistakenly showing applicants' personal information to other applicants who subsequently used the portal.Apple and Google's new smartphone alert system for tracking the coronavirus could be 'alarming' for privacy, a US senator has warned. Josh Hawley is pressing Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook to raise privacy

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.Magic Leap, the much-hyped smart glasses startup, is pivoting away from consumer tech and laying off half its staff. CEO Rony Abovitz announced that the company was making 'targeted' changes to the way it operates, with layoffs happening at 'every level' of the company.Facebook's $6 billion Jio deal has made it a major threat overnight to Amazon's growth in India. The deal is likely to supercharge JioMart, Jio's foray into online grocery and a competitor to Amazon and Flipkart.Zoom has skyrocketed to 300 million daily users, up 50% from the beginning of April, even as the company battles a privacy backlash. CEO Eric Yuan said the video conferencing company had seen a 50% increase in users since the beginning of April.Facebook

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.Amazon employees say they used data from third-party sellers to inform their production of competing products, according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon has consistently denied it engages in the practice of collecting data from third-party sellers, even in response to criticism from politicians and investigations from antitrust regulators.Facebook allowed advertisers to target users interested in 'pseudoscience,' allowing them to capitalize on conspiracy theories that falsely blame 5G cell towers for the coronavirus, according to The Markup. The social media giant says it's since removed the ability for advertisers to target "pseudoscience," but not before it was tagged as an interest for more than 78 million users.Over 30

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.The UK has rejected Apple and Google's contact-tracing API, instead launching an app that will take a more centralized approach, according to the BBC. The move is likely to alarm privacy and security experts.Automation Anywhere said it is cutting jobs due to the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The cuts could affect more than 10% of the startup's 2,600 employees.Apple may delay mass production of the iPhone 12 by about a month, according to The Wall Street Journal. The report comes after analysts and other media reports have also suggested Apple could push back the iPhone's launch by a couple of weeks or a month because of the coronavirus pandemic.Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates believes an upswing in nationalism

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.Amazon may have violated New York's whistleblower law by firing a worker involved in a protest over workplace safety, the state's attorney general said in a letter to the company. The letter also said Amazon's coronavirus safety measures are "so inadequate" that they may violate federal and state workplace safety rules.Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an internal memo seen by Business Insider that Google will "stagger" its return to offices as it extends work-from-home until June 1. Pichai said the experience of operating from home was giving Google an opportunity to reimagine the way the company works.Uber's chief technology officer has resigned following a report from The Information that Uber is planning to lay off up to

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.Apple's revenue growth ground to a halt in the first three months of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its retail stores, dampened consumer demand for iPhones and rattled the company's global manufacturing operations. Apple reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $58.3 billion, up less than 1% from the same period one year ago, and well below the company's initial projection of between $63 billion and $67 billion. Amazon reported huge growth in first-quarter revenue but a miss on earnings on Thursday. The mixed results show how the coronavirus outbreak is leading to more shoppers on Amazon, albeit at an increased cost as the company is dealing with a number of costly changes, including supply chain lockdowns and

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been called to testify before Congress. Lawmakers want to ask the billionaire about the company's practices around independent sellers after an investigation found employees used their data to create competing products, the Wall Street Journal reported.Uber will require its drivers and riders to wear face coverings in the US as the company looks to restart its business across the globe. Uber has also been developing technology to determine whether drivers are wearing masks, according to CNN.Anti-quarantine protesters are being kicked off Facebook and quickly finding refuge on a site loved by conspiracy theorists. Business Insider has found that protesters are moving their organizing efforts to MeWe,

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.Longtime Amazon VP Tim Bray has said he quit in dismay and called the company 'chickens---' for firing workers who criticized it. The tech giant has fired multiple employees who've criticized working conditions at its warehouses.Tech billionaire Elon Musk and musician Grimes have had their first child together, according to Musk's Twitter account. Musk announced the birth of their child Monday evening on Twitter, saying, "Mom & baby all good."Uber is reportedly considering another investment in scooter startup Lime. The $170 million emergency fundraising could sink Lime's valuation by nearly 80% — and give Uber the option to buy it in 2 years.Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann sued SoftBank for backing out of buying nearly $1 billion

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.Airbnb is cutting 25% of staff — 1,900 jobs — after its business has been slammed by the coronavirus crisis. Airbnb plans to offer affected workers at least 14 weeks of severance pay and, in the US, a year's worth of healthcare coverage.An Amazon warehouse employee in New York has died of COVID-19. Workers at the Staten Island location organized multiple strikes in April to protest pandemic working conditions. California is suing Uber and Lyft, accusing the ride-hailing companies of misclassifying their drivers. A consortium of city attorneys from the state's largest cities accused the firms of misclassifying their workers as contractors in order to avoid paying some benefits.The UK's COVID-19 contact-tracing app is about

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.Facebook has announced the first 20 members of its oversight board that will decide what controversial content is allowed on Facebook and Instagram. The "supreme court"-style body will make rulings over what controversial content will be allowed on the social network.Tesla is reportedly preparing to restart operations at its California factory in possible violation of local shelter-in-place orders. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become increasingly vocal in his opposition to coronavirus lockdowns, calling them "fascist" during a call with investors.An Amazon VP hit back at former colleague Tim Bray, who quit in protest after the company fired workers who raised safety concerns. Brad Porter, a vice president and engineer at Amazon,

The actor, 40, told Lorraine Kelly he's set up a digital bar to keep in touch with his co-stars as he lives alone during the pandemic.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said nail salons are high-risk for the spread of the new coronavirus and will reopen during the states' phase three of reopening, CNBC reported.Newsom said the first known community spread in the state was in a nail salon. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that a nail salon was the first known site of community spread in the state and that those businesses would not be a part of the reopening phase set to begin tomorrow, CNBC reported. "This whole thing started in the state of California, the first community spread, in a nail salon," Newsom said at a news briefing, according to CNBC. "I'm very worried about that."Newsom announced a four-phase plan for reopening the state. Right now, the

Marvel Studios released the new trailer for Scarlet Johansson's Black Widow movie on Tuesday, although the actress herself had no idea it was coming.

The ninth season of the hit TV show Shameless has just premiered. Here's everything you need to know, including its premiere date, how to watch, plot and cast details and more.

Taylor Swift threw the 'most aggressive holiday party known to womankind,' on Friday evening for her 30th birthday.

The Vivid Sydney switch will be flicked on at 6pm on Friday and then for 23 consecutive nights. Featuring 250 events, the 2017 program is expected to attract 2.31 million visitors.

Vivid Sydney is celebrating its tenth year later this year, and marks the special anniversary with performances from Beyonce’s sister, Solange, and US alt rock band, Mazzy Star.

Ben Cullen, 29, who lives in Chester, told Femail that he became captivated with the idea of making elaborate cake models in 2015, but had never even baked before. He now wins awards for his creations.

Do you know your EVM?

One of the best parts about being a professional athlete – apart from playing your favourite sport, of course – is getting to see the world. We've just come back from a training camp in Italy.

If you don't want to mark your match-up the same way as every other loved-up pair on Valentine's Day, pay close attention. Here we've rounded up ten lesser-known places linked to love around the globe.

The coronavirus has been a catalyst for big changes in the way consumers spend and pay.Ongoing trends like contactless payments and buy now, pay later are accelerating.New trends are emerging, like consumers' preference toward buy online, pick up in-store.Here's how banks, credit card companies, fintechs, and investors are thinking about the new norms in how we shop and pay.Click here for more BI Prime stories.From banks to credit card companies to retailers, the coronavirus pandemic has impacted virtually every player in the payments industry.Ongoing trends, like buy now, pay later and contactless payments, have been accelerated. And new norms in the way we shop, like buy online, pick up in-store, are emerging.We've spoken with execs across the payments ecosystem to understand what's changing,

Private equity giants like KKR, the Carlyle group and others are interested in acquiring a controlling stake in JB Chemicals, a little-known pharma company in India.Although JB Chemicals is a small player in the Indian pharma industry, it has built four strong brands and has market leadership in three of them, which has resulted in industry-beating growth.Some of the popular brands that JB Chemicals owns include Metrogyl, Rantac, Cilacar and Nicardia – driving 80-85% of the company’s India formulations revenue.JB Chemicals, a little-known pharma company in India with a market capitalization of ₹4,600 crore is reportedly on the radar of private equity giants around the world. This has sent the stock to an all-time high of ₹621 in intra-day trade.JB Chemicals is a relatively small player when

Before startups commit time and resources to things that scale, the story of a popular urban-gardening startup in London shows why they should focus first on things that don't.Franky Athill, head of marketing for Patch Plants, said his early team of five got its first sales by targeting outreach efforts exclusively on a few apartment buildings.The team grew and personally delivered plants to the small pool of customers.Once the idea gained traction, the team shifted gears to rapidly ramp up daily sales from 10 to 1,000 in three years and expand into Europe.This article is part of a series on growing a small business, called "From 1 to 100."Focusing on how to grow before you have enough data to inform your decisions can be a waste of scarce resources, according to Franky Athill, head of marketing

Two tax provisions of the $2 trillion stimulus package could put cash back into small business owners' pockets almost immediately. Most businesses will be eligible to defer payroll taxes and receive tax credits for keeping employees.However, businesses may not be eligible for tax relief if they receive a forgiveable loan through the Paycheck Protection Program.To understand how business owners can take advantage of these programs Business Insider reviewed IRS guidelines and spoke with a small business advisor at Wiss & Co. accounting firm. Click here for more BI Prime content.Businesses that have been forced to close, limit operations, and lay off employees during the coronavirus pandemic have several lifelines available to them, two of which are tax-related and could put cash back in their

Diane Douglas 'completely broke down' when she discovered a massive metal container had been dumped on the grave of her son Allan, who was shot dead in Iraq, at Dyce Cemetery in Aberdeen.

The career spy, who has worked for MI5 for 25 years and oversaw its investigation into Russia's attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in 2018, will take up his new post later this month.

The state-wide survey carried out by Siena College discovered that 46 percent of New York City residents personally knew someone killed by COVID-19, as do 36 percent living in the suburbs.

Election Day 2018 is currently underway in the United States. Here's all about when the polls open and close, when the exit polls and results will be in and the key races to watch.

About 20 activists from far-left group Smash Racism DC gathered outside the Fox News host's house on Wednesday around 6.30pm where they banged on his door and chanting slogans.

Serena Williams (pictured), 37, snubbed Barty, 23, at her pre-Wimbledon press conference on Saturday. Barty rose to number one after winning Birmingham Classic and French Open.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the Sussex's they are 'always welcome here' on Twitter at Christmas.Trudeau and his wife Sophie were told about the couple's move late last year, insider says.