Furlough payments will be extended at 80% for the duration of England’s second lockdown, the prime minister has confirmed. After announcing the strictest blanket coronavirus measures since March, Boris Johnson said the furlough scheme would continue through November until 2 December. He said the end of the scheme, in which employees will receive four-fifths of
Month: October 2020
England is to enter a second national lockdown from Thursday, Boris Johnson has announced, as a second wave of coronavirus cases continues to grow. In a speech on Saturday the prime minister detailed new the new rules which will be in place from 5 November until 2 December. Here is that speech in full: Thank
England will enter a month-long lockdown from Thursday, Boris Johnson has announced. Until 2 December, people in England will only be allowed to leave their homes for specific reasons, such as education, work or food shopping. Mr Johnson, speaking at a Downing Street news conference on Saturday evening, said there was “no alternative” to a
England is to be placed under stricter nationwide restrictions from Thursday in an attempt to slow down the spread of coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new measures just after confirmed COVID-19 cases passed the one million mark across the UK. The new restrictions will initially be imposed from 0001 on 5 November until
A Greek Orthodox priest is in a life-threatening condition after being shot in a gun attack in the French city of Lyon. French Police said the priest was fired at twice in the abdomen while he was closing the church at about 4pm and they are hunting for the attacker. Officers locked down the area
Monty Rakusen | Cultura | Getty Images Company: Contura Energy, Inc. (CTRA) Business: Contura is large scale provider of metallurgical (“met”) and thermal coal. The company has mining operations across coal basins in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. It supplies both metallurgical coal to produce steel and thermal coal to generate power. The met coal
Just in case you didn’t notice, the US election is next week, on Tuesday, November 3. We at Electrek ran a Climate Crisis Weekly roundup on October 10 with the headline, “Humanity’s future rests on American voters.” Someone on the subreddit r/JoeBiden declared, “Tech website Electrek backs Biden for president.” Our reaction to that? We’ll
The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in a combination photo. Reuters Tech companies had more to report Thursday night than the billions in profits they generated last quarter. They also painted a dire picture of the world as we head into the winter months with Covid-19 cases spiking across the U.S. and Europe,
CEO Of Netflix, Reed Hastings, attends the red carpet during the Netflix presentation party at the Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de la Arganzuela on April 4, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Juan Naharro Gimenez | Getty Images Netflix announced Thursday it will raise prices for U.S. customers. Don’t be surprised if you’re reading the same
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Four years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it “a pretty crazy idea” that fake news on Facebook could have influenced the election that handed Donald Trump the presidency. Today, the idea
Bond. James Bond. In his unmistakable Scottish brogue, Sir Sean Connery was the first man to utter film history’s most famous introduction. The perfect combination of dangerous and suave, for many fans, he is the ultimate 007. Connery was a jobbing actor when he was picked for Dr No in 1962, a role that set
8:00 AM ET In May, my 5-year-old son and I draped his bedroom in blankets from wall to wall, crawled inside and flew our imaginary ship all over the world. Jacob chose to visit places we couldn’t go because of the coronavirus, and we landed on the roof of Grandma’s house in the country and
The new chief executive of J Sainsbury is plotting a sale of its banking arm as ultra-low interest rates diminish the prospects of making a meaningful return from the business. Sky News has learnt that Sainsbury’s has begun sounding out potential buyers of the unit, which boasts more than 2m customers across a range of
Fellow James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan has paid tribute to Sir Sean Connery, describing him as “one of the true greats of cinema”, after his death aged 90. Sir Sean died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday in Nassau, the Bahamas, where he had been “unwell for some time”, his son Jason said. News of
A second national lockdown. It was something that the prime minister said would be a “disaster” for this country and something he vowed to do “everything in his power” to avoid. But now Mr Johnson is poised to announce exactly that. The measures are still under discussion – with a cabinet meeting planned this afternoon
Penguin Gentoo on the beach of the Dobrowolski Glacier with red snow in the background, a phenomenon that happens due to the heating of the water, on January 04, 2020 in King George Island, Antarctica. Alessandro Dahan | Getty Images LONDON — Socially-conscious investing has gathered a lot of momentum this year, with billions of
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 44
- Next Page »