Bill Gates and Warren Buffett want to build a new kind of nuclear reactor to generate electricity. Why? Because the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. They intend to plunk their new toy down in the state of Wyoming on the former site of a coal-fired generating plant. “This is our
Month: June 2021
Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has been filmed appearing to praise Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in a new video. In the clip, recorded for Belarusian state-controlled TV, Mr Protasevich was asked whether he respected the president, to which he replied: “Absolutely.” Mr Protasevich, 26, said Mr Lukashenko has “acted like a man with balls of steel”,
5:21 PM ET After a year-long postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the CONCACAF Nations League finals kick off this week, and there are plenty of storylines to keep track of ahead of Thursday’s semifinals and Sunday’s final in Denver. The United States — featuring Christian Pulisic, Sergino Dest, and Giovanni Reyna — will have
In this article TSLA A Model Y vehicle displayed at a Tesla flagship store on Jan. 4, 2021 in Shanghai, China. Gao Yuwen | Visual China Group | Getty Images Tesla shares dropped more than 4% in mid-day trading Thursday after a report that the company’s vehicle orders declined steeply in China during the month
The mother of a 14-year-old stabbed to death in Birmingham has paid tribute to her “incredibly talented young boy”. Dea-John Reid is understood to have been chased by a group in College Road, in the Kingstanding area of the city, at about 7.30pm on Monday, before he was attacked. Speaking to reporters at the spot
The film and TV sector needs to take more responsibility for abuse in the industry, the chair of Time’s Up has told Sky News. Dame Heather Rabbatts, who is also a non-executive chairman of actor Noel Clarke‘s production company, said the sector “absolutely needs to find ways in which it can take more responsibility”. Clarke,
Boris Johnson has had his second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine. The prime minister received his jab at the Francis Crick Institute in London on Thursday evening, having had his first dose back in March. His first jab was administered at St Thomas’ Hospital, where he was treated in intensive care last year after
The world’s richest countries “must deliver” financial aid to climate-vulnerable nations, COP26 president Alok Sharma has said. During a two-day visit to Bangladesh, Mr Sharma told Sky News developing nations were frustrated by a failure by G7 nations to meet a financial target of $100bn (£71bn) per year for climate-related issues. “This has become a
People hoping for an overseas trip this summer – and those hoping to sell them that break – are furious after the UK government announced changes to the list of approved destinations. Portugal, which had been the only viable popular destination on the green list, will be moved to the amber list. This will mean
The governments of Denmark, Norway, and the United States, along with the Global Maritime Forum and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, today announced that they will lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission as part of Mission Innovation. The Mission aims to accelerate international public-private collaboration to scale and deploy new green maritime
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Construction, Housing and Utilities Minister Vladimir Yakushev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia February 10, 2020. Aleksey Nikolskyi | Sputnik | Kremlin via Reuters There are signs that Russia’s economy is overheating with annual inflation currently at 5.9%, Anton Siluanov, the country’s finance minister, said Thursday. “If we continue
A team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, Japan, may have just found an answer to hair loss and baldness woes. While many methods have been devised in the past to address hair-related issues, this one is unique, for it’s a recipe for continuous cyclical regeneration of hair follicles
It may not have the setting or the showbiz appeal of the coming leaders’ summit in Cornwall. It may not have quite the same momentous feel as the main summit – Joe Biden’s first as US president, Angela Merkel’s last before potentially standing down as Germany’s chancellor. But the meeting of G7 finance ministers in
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Two runaway children broke into a Florida house and used an AK-47 in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. The boy, 12, and girl, 14, found the weapons in a house in Enterprise after running away from the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. There were four exchanges of gunfire over 35 minutes and Volusia County sheriff’s
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Tesco does not pay female staff the same amount for equivalent work done by male employees, in a landmark judgement that sides with employees of the UK supermarket giant. Thousands of shop floor staff, most of whom are women, have accused Britain’s biggest grocer of paying them up
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