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
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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
Tata Power is India’s largest integrated power utility, and it is putting more of its weight behind solar now — rooftop solar, no less. It is running a nationwide ad campaign — in both digital and print media — title SOLAROOF. The campaign is not just for residential buyers, but also for commercial, industrial, and
A driver has been shot after a car rammed into a barricade outside the US Capitol building and injured two police officers, law enforcement officials have said. The officials told the Associated Press that the suspect was in custody and taken to hospital in a critical condition. NBC News has since reported that the person
Mar 29, 2021 There can be only one first. History rarely cares if someone says, “Hey, I was the second person …” Which is why historically Jennifer Kupcho’s name will always be remembered. She was the first to win the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in 2019. Because of the pandemic, the event was not played
In this article TSLA Tesla Model 3 Source: Tesla Tesla just reported first-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers for 2021. In total, it delivered 184,800 vehicles and produced 180,338 cars. Analysts were expecting Tesla to deliver around 168,000 vehicles during this period, according to estimates compiled by FactSet as of April 1. Estimates ranged from
The US and Iran have said they will begin negotations through intermediaries to try to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear programme. The announcement marked the first major progress in efforts to return both countries to the 2015 accord, which bound Iran to restrictions on its nuclear programmes in return for
The prime minister has warned people not to meet others from different households indoors over Easter, even if they have had a coronavirus vaccine. Boris Johnson made the call in a video posted on his official Twitter account, asking questions sent in to the government about his roadmap for easing COVID-19 restrictions. Live COVID updates
Oil pumping jacks, also known as “nodding donkeys”, are reflected in a puddle as they operate in an oilfield near Almetyevsk, Russia, on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — A group consisting of some of the world’s most powerful oil producers on Thursday will meet to decide on
GlobalFoundries campus in Malta, N.Y. Mary Thompson | CNBC GlobalFoundries, the third-largest foundry, is planning to invest $1.4 billion in its chip factories this year, and will likely double that investment next year, CEO Tom Caulfield told CNBC in an interview. Caufield said the company’s manufacturing capacity is completely booked and that industrywide semiconductor supply
Britain’s biggest defence contractor has handed its chief executive a multimillion pound pay rise as its board scrambled to prevent a rival FTSE-100 company from poaching him. Sky News can reveal that BAE Systems has increased Charles Woodburn’s base salary by well over £100,000 and awarded him an additional ‘golden handcuffs’ share package worth £2m
Police searching for missing student Richard Okorogheye, who went missing two weeks ago, say they have found a man’s body in a pond in Epping Forest, Essex. The 19-year-old left his family home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on the evening of Monday 22 March, boarded a bus, and later took a 20-mile taxi ride