US President Joe Biden has held a virtual meeting with China’s Xi Jinping and began on a positive note – saying their goal is to ensure competition “does not veer into conflict”. The two leaders met on a video call amid rising tensions between the US and China, which have long had a strained relationship.
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Tesla took out a Tesla Semi truck to charge at its Megacharger station at Gigafactory Nevada as the company received an important visit. Things are starting to move on the Tesla Semi front. When unveiling the electric semi-truck back in 2017, Tesla said that deliveries would start in 2019. Clearly, the program has been delayed
A ConocoPhillips refinery in Wilmington, California. Jonathan Alcorn | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world needs to reduce carbon levels, and one way is through a carbon tax, a strategy the U.S. has been debating for decades. With urgent calls to lower greenhouse gas emissions globally, putting a price on carbon was one of the major points of discussion among world leaders at the COP26 conference in
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A “reckless and irresponsible” Russian weapons test has created more than 1,500 pieces of debris now endangering the seven crew aboard the International Space Station, US officials have said. Crew members were forced to take emergency measures on Monday after debris floated dangerously close by – and took cover in their docked capsules amid fears
12:03 PM ET Whoever says the international break isn’t up to much clearly hasn’t been paying attention to the action over the past four days. In CONCACAF, the U.S. racked up a massive win over Mexico, but in Europe, there’s been A LOT to digest. Take the stunning struggles of Portugal, or the web of
In this article GOOGL Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images At Google’s
Boris Johnson is facing a backlash from MPs, mayors and a coordinated local newspaper campaign as he’s poised to scrap the eastern leg of the HS2 rail project between Birmingham and Leeds. The prime minister is this week expected to confirm a watering-down of plans for both HS2 and a new Leeds to Manchester rail
After a week shivering in sodden woodland, the largest group of migrants stuck between the serried ranks of Belarusian and Polish border guards decided to move. We were en route to their camp but they had other plans. “It’s too cold and we are in a place that’s quite open, we have no protection from the
Police investigating a terror incident outside a hospital in Liverpool have named the man killed in the blast as 32-year-old Emad al Swealmeen. Officers said they believe he is the male passenger who brought a homemade bomb with him into a taxi and asked to be taken to the hospital. He was picked up in
Stanley Johnson, the former MEP and father of the prime minister, has been accused of inappropriately touching a senior Conservative MP. Caroline Nokes, a former minister and chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, said the incident took place at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 2003, when she was in her early
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has surrendered to the FBI to face criminal charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the US Capitol riot. The former president’s longtime ally was dismissive of the allegations as he livestreamed the process of turning himself in. “We’re taking down the Biden regime,” he told his
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has admitted he is “very uneasy” about high inflation – but dismissed the idea that Britain could face a 1970s style wage-price spiral. Mr Bailey was being questioned by MPs over the Bank’s latest decision to leave interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.1% – surprising
Tesla is seeing an increase in complaints over serious and dangerous phantom braking events plaguing Autopilot in the latest software updates. Phantom braking is a term used to describe when an advanced driver assist system (ADAS) or a self-driving system applies the brakes for no good reason. The system can be falsely detecting an object
Heidi Gutman | CNBC Projections for oil prices to hit $100 per barrel overlook key questions over the future of demand, according to Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor at Allianz and chair of Gramercy Fund Management. Both international benchmark Brent crude and U.S. crude prices have spiked above $80 in recent weeks as post-pandemic demand
The trial of the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery continues as a police investigator testified under oath, telling a different story than the one he told Arbery’s mother after her son’s death. CNN’s Ryan Young reports. #CNN #News
Police have declared that Sunday’s explosion outside a hospital in Liverpool is a terror incident. Detectives have arrested a fourth man over the blast, which killed a passenger inside a taxi. Police believe it was that passenger who took an improvised explosive device into the vehicle, which exploded as the taxi arrived outside the reception
A man demonstrates the uSens Inc. Impression Pi virtual reality and augmented reality interactive device at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, in Las Vegas. John Locher | AP The so-called metaverse has a “big time” investment case, according to Puerto Rican billionaire businessman Orlando Bravo. Bravo, co-founder
James Bond: No Time To Die has become Hollywood’s biggest international (excluding US markets) pandemic film release so far, overtaking F9. The film, which is Daniel Craig’s final outing as the quintessentially British spy, has made more than $558m (£416m) at the box office – $700m (£521m) if you include the US takings. In the
Adele has spoken openly about her divorce, its impact on her son, and how people reacted to her weight loss in a wide-ranging interview with chat show legend Oprah Winfrey. The 33-year-old also performed tracks from her new album 30 at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on the CBS special, ahead of its release