Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg protests with her placard reading “School strike for climate” as part of her Fridays for Future protest in front of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm on October 9, 2020. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — A statue of the climate activist Greta Thunberg that has been
Month: April 2021
The UK has reported its lowest number of COVID deaths since mid-September, while more than five million people have now had both doses of a vaccine. The landmark vaccination count was passed as a further 3,423 infections were reported in the latest 24-hour period. Another 10 deaths have been recorded within 28 days of a
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised by members of his own party for visiting a church that has homophobic links. LGBT+ Labour said the visit to Jesus House in north London was “unacceptable”. Sources confirmed that the leader of the opposition‘s office had offered an “unreserved apology” to the group. Image: Sir Keir
The British cybersecurity company Darktrace is this weekend finalising plans for a £3bn stock market listing, despite the shadow cast over technology ‘unicorn’ floats in London by this week’s Deliveroo’s disastrous debut. Sky News has learnt that Darktrace’s board – led by new chairman Gordon Hurst – wants to issue an expected intention to float
Prosecutors in Taiwan want to arrest the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a rail track killing 50 people and injuring 178. The train, carrying 494 passengers, came off the rails in a tunnel just north of Hualien causing some carriages to hit the wall of the tunnel on Friday. It smashed into
KYMCO is making a major update to the way the company markets its Ionex electric scooter line, hoping to cut into Gogoro’s massive share of the e-scooter market. Taipei-based KYMCO is a giant in the gas-powered scooter industry and has been building exhaust-spewing two-wheelers for well over 50 years. But the company’s entrance into the
Seven people have died from blood clots after taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in the UK. The UK medicines regulator confirmed that of the 18.1 million people given the Oxford jab, 30 had gone on to have blood clots – and as of 24 March, seven of those had died. The Medicines and Healthcare Products
In this article HEI-DE LIN EOAN-DE SZG-DE DOW MT-NL ORSTED-DK This photograph shows turbines at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm, which Orsted owns 50% of. CharlieChesvick | iStock Unreleased | Getty Images Danish energy company Orsted wants to construct a large-scale offshore wind farm in the North Sea and link it to so-called “renewable”
6:43 PM ET Earlier this week, as the proposed Conor McGregor–Dustin Poirier trilogy fight continued to trend in the right direction, I wrote a caption on social media that said: “For all the marbles.” Well, the caption rubbed some people the wrong way. How could I say this one is for all the marbles when
In this article GOOGL After five and half years guiding Waymo, Alphabet’s subsidiary developing autonomous-drive technology, John Krafcik has decided it’s time for someone else to run the company. Actually, it will be a pair of Waymo’s top executives, Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, who will become co-CEOs of the company. In a blog post
Children will be able to visit grandparents in care homes from next week – in many cases, for the first time in a year. Care home residents in England will be able to receive two visitors indoors from next Monday 12 April in the latest easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Boris Johnson has announced that care
This week prosecutors have been laying out their case for the second and third-degree murder and manslaughter of George Floyd. Derek Chauvin, 45, is accused of murdering Mr Floyd in Minneapolis last year by kneeling on the 46-year-old’s neck for more than nine minutes, as he lay face-down in handcuffs. Mr Floyd was being detained
Nissan has released an update with new footage of the Ariya electric crossover test program ahead of the start of production later this year. After taking an early leadership role with electric vehicles through the Leaf, Nissan sat on its laurels and waited a decade to release a second passenger electric car. But it’s finally
2:34 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN The New Orleans Pelicans are expected to sign point guard Isaiah Thomas to a 10-day contract, sources told ESPN on Friday. Thomas has not played an NBA game since Feb. 3, 2020, with the Washington Wizards. He did play two games with Team USA this February, leading the team in
The heart of American government has been on edge since 6 January. This incident will serve to add to the jitters. If, as reported, the perpetrator was armed with a knife, in a country where it is alarmingly easy to get hold of guns and ammunition, it does not appear to be a serious co-ordinated attempt
Authorities are piecing together what they know about the man shot dead outside the US Capitol building after he launched a fatal attack on police officers. US Capitol Police officer William Evans died in hospital after a man rammed a car into two officers and “lunged” towards them with a knife in his hand at