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Budget 2025: what it means for people on a range of incomes

How Rachel Reeves’s measures on tax, NI and benefits affect single people, couples, families and those receiving pensions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland Luke can’t get a graduate role and works 35 hours a week in a cafe. He is paid the national living wage (NLW) of £12.21 for workers aged 21 and over. He pays £1,930 in income tax and £772 in national insurance (NI) contributions. This results in a monthly take-home pay of £1,627 after tax, or £19,520 a year. On 1 April 2026 the NLW rate will increase 50p – 4.1% – to £12.71 an…

Politics

Has Rachel Reeves broken her manifesto promises with the budget?

Rachel Reeves told MPs she had kept her manifesto commitments. Responding, Kemi Badenoch said the opposite. Who is right? Budget 2025: key points at a glance Rachel Reeves told MPs in the Commons on Wednesday: “I have cut the cost of living – with money off bills and prices frozen – all while keeping every single one of our manifesto commitments.” The claim was a bold one, given that the chancellor had promised not to raise national insurance, VAT or income tax, and has arguably raised two of them. Continue reading… Source link

China

South Korea’s largest satellite launched on Nuri rocket

South Korea launched its largest satellite yet on its nationally developed space rocket early on Thursday, the fourth of six planned launches through 2027. The three-stage Nuri rocket lifted off from the country’s spaceport on an island off the southwestern coastal county of Goheung. Aerospace officials said the rocket placed a 516kg (1,137-pound) science satellite and 12 microsatellites into a target orbit about 600km (372 miles) above Earth. The Korea Aerospace Administration was expected to… Source link

Entertainment Hollywood & Global

LISTEN: ‘The Studio’ Star Ike Barinholtz Tubthumps for the MPTF: ‘It Comes Very Natural to Me to Ask People for Money’

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, “The Studio” star Ike Barinholtz discusses his tubthumping campaign to raise money for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. And we take a Vintage Variety look back at the birth of the MPTF as covered the pages of Variety. More to come Listen to Daily Variety on iHeartPodcasts, Apple Podcasts, Variety’s YouTube […] Source link

India Regional

Manipur BJP MLA raises alarm over infiltration, land encroachment in Zeliangrong areas

Imphal: Dinganglung Gangmei, a Manipur BJP MLA elected from the 54-Nungba (Scheduled Tribe) Assembly Constituency in the northwestern part of Manipur, has raised concern over the growing issue of infiltration and land encroachment. Gangmei, a retired IAS officer, in a statement posted on Facebook, said, “Our concern now is the growing issue of infiltration and […] The post Manipur BJP MLA raises alarm over infiltration, land encroachment in Zeliangrong areas appeared first on NorthEast Now. Source link

Technology

A Raspberry Pi 5 with Moonlight is a better 4K game streamer than the Steam Link app on Chromecast

Cloud gaming and in-home streaming have come a long way, but the hardware you choose still affects the quality of the experience. Many people reach for a Chromecast running the Steam Link app because it is widely available and easy to set up. That approach works for casual sessions, and it is good enough for streaming older or slower-paced titles. Once you try pushing higher bitrates or more demanding games, the limitations become apparent. Source link

Top Stories

Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – live

⚽ Champions League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off⚽ Live scoreboard | Latest table | And you can mail Michael At 4/1 and 5/1 respectively, Arsenal and Bayern Munich are the favourites to win this season’s Champions League outright, and it’s not really a surprise. Both are top of their domestic leagues by six points. Both retain a 100% record in Europe going into this match – come the end of it, that obviously won’t be the case. Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and his Bayern counterpart, Vincent Kompany, have spent the build up to this one talking up their…

Space

Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Stacked

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day mission around the Moon and back in early 2026. Follow along with the mission on the NASA Artemis blog. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Source link