Fresh guidance has been given about what “essential items” people can buy from supermarkets in Wales. It comes after days of anger over which items count. But the Welsh government’s statement was in danger of sparking further confusion by saying that a “sensible system should be introduced whereby customers can ask to buy non-essential items
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Aston Martin Lagonda says Mercedes is to own up to fifth of its shares under plans to turn around its fortunes. The maker of James Bond’s favourite car said it was to expand the investment partnership between the pair through greater access to the German company’s hybrid and electric technology in exchange for a shareholding
Where they can get away with it, certain legacy carmakers are still perfectly content to be dragged, kicking and screaming, toward electrification. Curiously though, there are instances in which the self-same car companies that make little effort in their home country can’t resist the revenues on offer in nations with significant EV sales. Numerous of them have fought
A BP company logo is displayed on a fuel pump on the forecourt of a gas station operated by BP Plc in London, U.K. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Energy giant BP on Tuesday reported a small profit for the third quarter, beating analyst expectations as the company benefited from stronger
Elisabeth Moss has a history of playing women who fight back against the male-dominated environments they find themselves in. Fans of Mad Men will remember her as Peggy, the first female writer at the ad firm the series is set around, while millions also know her as June – the handmaid desperate to escape in
Getty Images Amazon said Tuesday it’s hiring 100,000 seasonal employees to assist with increased demand over the holiday season. The employees will help pick, pack and ship customer orders across Amazon’s network of warehouses in the U.S. and Canada. Amazon will hire the most workers in California, Texas, Maryland, Georgia and New Jersey. Amazon hired
The coronavirus pandemic has seen an unprecedented number of voters register to cast their ballot by mail – raising the very real possibility that we may not know who has won the US election for several days. In 2016, Donald Trump was declared the winner of Wisconsin at 7.29am UK time on the day after
Johnny Depp is finally set to find out if he has won his blockbuster libel case against The Sun over an article labelling him a “wife beater”, with a date now announced for the ruling. The high-profile trial unfolded over three weeks at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London in July, after the Hollywood
October 27th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan There is a rather ironic thing about Donald Trump. From 1985 to 1994, it’s been argued that he lost more money than any other American — due to the fact that he inherited such a fortune but then did so poorly at business. Nonetheless, during that time, he wrote
Microsoft has announced that Lobe, a machine learning tool which helps people apply deep learning and AI models quickly – without the need of writing code – into tools they are developing, is now available with image classification support. This essentially means that people can import images of the things they want Lobe to recognise,
The government will “learn from” a summer holiday clubs programme as it seeks to steer a way through the free school meals row, a minister has told Sky News. A fresh campaign spearheaded by England footballer Marcus Rashford has heaped pressure on the government over the provision of school holiday meals for the children of
NASA’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex is set to begin on Tuesday a delicate operation to store the precious particles it scooped up from the asteroid Bennu, but which were leaking into space when a flap got wedged open. The probe is on a mission to collect fragments that scientists hope will help unravel the origins of
There may be far more water on the Moon than previously thought, according to two studies published Monday raising the tantalising prospect that astronauts on future space missions could find refreshment, and maybe even fuel, on the lunar surface. The Moon was believed to be bone dry until around a decade ago, when a series of
HSBC has warned it could start charging for “basic banking services” after reporting a 35% fall in pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September. With interest rates so low, Europe’s biggest bank by assets is finding it difficult to charge more for loans than it pays out to depositors. The bank said
Weekly deaths linked to coronavirus have risen in England and Wales for the sixth week in a row – with a jump of 53% on last week, according to the Office for National Statistics. A total of 670 deaths were registered in the week ending 16 October with COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate –
At least seven people have died and at least 80 others injured after an explosion during a class at a religious school in northwest Pakistan. Police initially said that children were among the dead, but later confirmed that almost all the students were in their mid-20s. Hospital officials said all those killed were adults, while