A New Zealand-based startup just got $18 million to commercialize graphite made of wood chips for EV batteries in Europe and the US. Graphite made of wood chips and sawdust Swedish-Finnish renewable forestry giant Stora Enso, Hong Kong-based battery maker Amperex Technology (ATL), and other partners are investing in CarbonScape, which uses forestry and timber industry
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In this article ABNB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Naba Banerjee, Airbnb Source: Prashant Joshi | Airbnb Naba Banerjee is a proud party pooper. As the person in charge of Airbnb’s worldwide ban on parties, she’s spent more than three years figuring out how to battle party “collusion” by users, flag “repeat party houses”
More than a year and a half into this war, President Biden has felt the need to urge the world not to succumb to appeasement with Russia. Allowing any carving up of Ukraine will render everyone less safe – that was the gist of the argument he made in the UN General Assembly. In an
Rishi Sunak looks set to weaken key climate pledges in a move that has drawn heavy criticism from Tory MPs and environmental groups. The prime minister said he remains committed to the net zero target by 2050 but will achieve it “in a better, more proportionate way”. It comes after a report in the BBC
Lenders to Cazoo, the British-based online car retailer, will take control of the company’s shares as part of a deep financial restructuring expected to be announced within days. Sky News has learnt that Cazoo was on Tuesday putting the finishing touches to a $630m debt-for-equity swap that will leave Viking Global Investors, a US-based fund,
Barbara Fried, mother of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, leaves the courthouse, after U.S judge revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail, in New York, August 11, 2023. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is looking to claw back luxury property and “millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds” from the
A TV executive who worked at a company that hired Russell Brand has described the allegations against the star as “depressing”. Phil Edgar-Jones was creative director of Remarkable Pictures, part of Endemol UK, and oversaw Big Brother during its Channel 4 years. Speaking to Sky News, he said: “There was never any sense that he’d
Joe Biden has said the world must stand up to Russia’s “naked aggression” and support the people of Ukraine. Speaking to the UN General Assembly, he said Moscow alone bears responsibility for the war, stands in the way of peace, and has the power to end the conflict immediately. The US president urged UN members
Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter Georgina Baillie has argued that YouTube suspending earnings from Russell Brand’s channel is “cancel culture”. Baillie, 38, who had an on-off relationship with Brand in the 2000s, said although she didn’t know all the details of the allegations, some of the evidence is “compelling”. The actress was at the centre of the
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentSep 19, 2023, 05:05 AM ET The UK television broadcaster of Manchester United‘s trip to Bayern Munich in the Champions League this week billed the match as a clash between “two of the biggest teams in the world” in their advertising push, but Erik ten Hag and his players will arrive in southern
The UK economy will have the highest inflation rate among the world’s richest nations this year, according to new forecasts. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in its interim economic outlook report that it expected the UK’s inflation rate to average 7.2% during 2023. That was a rise on its previous
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Two parents and their two children have been shot dead as police say they are not treating the case as murder-suicide. Three dogs were also found shot dead in the home in Romeoville, a village around 26 miles from Chicago in the US state of Illinois, shortly after 8.43pm local time on Sunday (2.43am UK
Members of the rescue teams from the Egyptian army carry a dead body as they walk in the mud between the destroyed buildings, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya, in Derna, Libya September 13, 2023. Ahmed Elumami | Reuters Storm Daniel has left Libya, a country grappling with conflict and economic crisis
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced on Tuesday that its maiden solar mission — Aditya-L1 — has performed the Trans-Lagrangean Point 1 Insertion (TL1I) manoeuvre successfully and the spacecraft was now in a trajectory that will take it to the Sun-Earth L1 point. ISRO also informed that it marked the fifth consecutive time that
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has criticised the “increasing militancy” and “politically” motivated strikes, and said that is why new legislation to curtail walkouts is being introduced. Mr Barclay was speaking as consultants took industrial action today, with junior doctors set to join them tomorrow in the first joint strike in NHS history. The government is
YouTube has suspended adverts on videos by Russell Brand after the comedian was accused of rape and sexual assault. The Google-owned company said it had suspended the monetisation of Mr Brand’s channel for “violating our Creator Responsibility policy”. “If a creator’s off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the
A man check his phone near an Apple logo outside its store in Shanghai, China September 13, 2023. Aly Song | Reuters Apple is facing a number of issues in China, with geopolitical risks mounting and the economy still not firing as many would have hoped. But the biggest challenge of all, according to analysts,
The anger in Derna has been brewing for days now. It’s been building ever since the floodwaters dropped. Even amid the overwhelming grief with a quarter of the city’s population wiped out, the survivors and bereaved families unleashed a torrent of frustration and fury of equal ferocity to the water which punched through Derna. That
Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter has said that she “doesn’t see Russell Brand as a rapist” from her “own experience” following a string of allegations against the comic. Georgina Baillie, who had a relationship with Brand in the 2000s, added that women’s stories of sexual abuse should always be believed and taken seriously. Baillie, 38, was at