9:30 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jessica Korda shot a 6-under 65 on Thursday in the HUGEL-Air Premia LA Open to break the tournament 36-hole scoring record and increase her lead to three strokes. A day after matching the Wilshire Country Club tournament record with a 64, Korda opened her bogey-free morning round
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Britons arriving from India must now pay to quarantine in government-approved hotels for 10 days after the country was added to the travel red list. As of 4am, only British, Irish and third-country nationals with residence rights, including long-term visa holders, can enter the UK. Other people are banned if they have been in India
Formula E will race in Spain for the first time ever this weekend at the Valencia ePrix, with races on both Saturday and Sunday. We’ve also got some Formula E news that’s happened in the last couple of weeks, including a new electric GT race series, NIO’s long-term commitment to Formula E, and the plan
Downing Street has mounted a fightback against “sleaze” accusations by planting stories in Tory-supporting newspapers accusing Dominic Cummings of leaking Number 10 texts. The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Sun quote unnamed Downing Street sources claiming Mr Cummings leaked texts about tycoon Sir James Dyson and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. The lead story on
Many of us are used to flipping a switch or pressing a button to instantly illuminate a room, heat or cool a home, or access our digital lives through smart devices. Our energy and communications infrastructure is reliable, robust, and flexible enough to support and control advanced technologies. For those living in more remote areas
Thirty nine sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted by the Post Office have had their criminal convictions overturned. The appellants, some of whom were imprisoned for crimes they never committed, had been accused of theft and false accounting because of a faulty computer system. In court, Sam Stein QC, the barrister representing several sub-postmasters, said the
In this article AAPL Apple AirTag Todd Haselton | Apple Apple announced its new AirTag item trackers on Tuesday. Apple sent me several to try out, so I’ll show you what they’re like. The $29 AirTag ($99 for a pack of four) is a tiny metal tracker that you can attach to a keychain, drop
A further 55 cases of the coronavirus “double mutation” variant first detected in India have been discovered in the UK in the week to 21 April, Public Health England said. It takes the total number of B.1.617 infections to 132, according to the latest figures. The news comes just hours before India is added to
A tidal turbine weighing 680 metric tons and dubbed “the world’s most powerful” has been launched from the Port of Dundee in Scotland, marking another significant step forward in the development of the U.K.’s marine energy sector. In an announcement Thursday, Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power said its 2 megawatt (MW) turbine, the Orbital O2,
Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown has died at the age of 65, his family has said. In a statement posted on Twitter, they wrote: “It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our beloved husband and father Leslie Richard McKeown. “Leslie died suddenly at home on Tuesday 20 April 2021.” Arrangements
Britain’s economic reopening has helped create the strongest pick-up in optimism among manufacturers for nearly half a century, according to new figures. A balance of 38% of firms surveyed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said their outlook on the business situation had improved in the past three months. It was the first positive
Documents seen by Sky News suggest senior management at the BBC were more concerned about punishing whistleblowers than investigating why Martin Bashir had allegedly faked documents in the lead up to securing the 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana. Within weeks, it is anticipated that Lord Dyson, who was tasked with investigating how the interview
In his neat flat in the Polish town of Rybnik, Emil Nagalewski sips a coffee, strokes his cat and then asks if we want to see how he stops his family being poisoned by the air around us. We are taken to a small anteroom, where Emil shows us the silver pipes leading into the
David Cameron lobbied the Treasury’s top civil servant on behalf of a financial services firm that later collapsed. Sir Tom Scholar told a committee of MPs that the former prime minister called him on his work mobile and sent him text messages in March and April 2020 in a bid to get Greensill Capital involved
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US-hosted Leaders Summit on Climate kicks off today. Keep an eye on these three countries. Los Angeles City Council unanimously approves a Global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla
Prince William, alongside the celebrity judges of the Earthshot Prize, has called on the world to “harness that spirit of invention” which led to the development of coronavirus vaccines to help tackle the climate crisis. The Duke of Cambridge launched the Earthshot Prize last October in an effort to find ways and technologies that will