Russia’s Deputy Prime Minster Alexander Novak (L) and Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud attend a session as part of the 24th St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2021) at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Center. Donat Sorokin | TASS | Getty Images LONDON — Two of the world’s largest oil-producing countries
Month: June 2021
Boris Johnson will hold talks with the bosses of Britain’s biggest banks and insurers next week as the government seeks assurances about the sector’s commitment to financing the post-pandemic recovery. Sky News has learnt that the prime minister and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, have invited more than a dozen of the City’s top executives to
Kim Kardashian broke down in tears in the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians while discussing her divorce from Kanye West. Kardashian cried while telling her sisters Kourtney, Kylie and Kendall that she felt like a failure during her break up with rapper. The 40-year-old filed for divorce from the father of her
NASA’s long-awaited flagship observatory — the James Webb Space Telescope — is slated for take-off after October this year, as the space agency continues its talks with the European Space Agency (ESA) to fix a final launch date. This comes after their initial announcement in July last year in which the Webb Telescope was due
Researchers at Australia’s Queensland Museum have found a new, adorable frog species in the swampy, lowland forests of New Guinea. Named the “chocolate frog”, it has big, cartoonish eyes and its skin is the colour of milk chocolate. The candy-coloured amphibian is closely related to the green tree frog that’s common in Australia. The researchers
Filming for the next instalment of Mission: Impossible in the UK has been halted after positive COVID-19 tests were reported, Paramount Pictures has said. It is unclear how many positive tests there were, but filming on Tom Cruise‘s latest film will now pause for two weeks as a result. The studio added in a statement:
Harley-Davidson is planning to unveil a highly anticipated electric motorcycle next month, and we’ve gone through the clues to try and determine what it could be. For those that haven’t heard, last month Harley-Davidson announced the launch of a new all-electric motorcycle brand, LiveWire. Instead of continuing to develop electric motorcycles under the H-D badge
Brussels is to ban Belarusian planes from EU airspace as it ramps up pressure on the Minsk regime over the forced diversion of a passenger jet and arrest of a government critic. The move will also see European airlines strongly encouraged to avoid flying over the ex-Soviet country, which sparked an international outcry after a
In this article PLTR Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies Inc., pauses during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — A campaign is being launched to try to stop U.S. tech giant Palantir from working with the U.K.’s National Health
SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a plaque-fighting toothpaste experiment and powerful solar panels. The 7,300-pound (3,300-kilogram) shipment — which also includes fresh lemons, onions, avocados, and cherry tomatoes for the station’s seven astronauts — should arrive Saturday. SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted into the hazy
Welsh leader Mark Drakeford has expressed concern about the Indian coronavirus variant spreading across the border from England hotspots as his country moves to further ease lockdown restrictions. While ruling out a ban on travel, the first minister has urged visitors from the North West to take “all the precautions” in order to keep themselves
More coffins of people believed to be victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa have been found, city officials have said. Crews searching Oaklawn Cemetery found five more coffins, bringing the total number discovered at the mass-grave site to 20. The search began last year, with researchers finding at least 12 sets of remains,
Portuguese authorities have questioned why the UK has switched the popular holiday destination from its travel green list to amber. The move, announced on Thursday, means thousands of Britons who travelled there for the half-term school break are now scrambling to get home before the mandatory 10-day self-isolation kicks in at 4am on Tuesday. Live
Alexander Novak, Russia’s energy minister, pauses during a panel session on day two of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, June 3, 2021. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Thursday said the oil and gas-rich country may soon be tempted
Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Arjun Krishnaswami & Sasha Stashwick The Biden administration’s 2022 budget released on Friday includes major funding increases for important Department of Energy (DOE) programs to drive clean energy innovation, address the climate crisis, and build a strong and equitable economy. These funding increases complement the investments proposed in the President’s
Tesla has donated over $3 million to a Canadian battery research team that it has been working with to develop cheaper, longer-lasting battery cells for its electric vehicles. Tesla Advanced Battery Research For the past five years, Tesla has been working with a battery research group in Canada, also known as Jeff Dahn’s research team,
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