The UK is braced for temperatures as high as 41C today with increased travel chaos – as the Met Office provisionally reports the country had its warmest night on record. The national weather service has said the highest overnight minimum temperatures recorded were 24.5C (76.1C) in Aberporth, west Wales, 25.8C (78.4C) in Kenley, in the
A Cambridge University professor’s ultrafast EV battery startup has raised $59 million in Series B funding. Nyobolt aims to develop a battery that can achieve 5-minute EV charging time. EV charging in 5 minutes Goslar, Germany-based H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders (HSC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hanoi-headquartered Masan High-Tech Materials, the largest manufacturer of mid-stream
In this article GE People visit the General Electric stand during the China International Import Expo (CIIE) at the National Exhibition and Convention Center on November 7, 2018 in Shanghai, China. VCG | Getty Images General Electric on Monday revealed the names of the three distinct companies that will result from the conglomerate’s historic split:
A grizzly bear which mauled a woman to death in a rare predatory attack in Montana had become “food-conditioned”. Leah Davis Lokan, 65, had encountered the bear about an hour before the attack and was able to scare it away, but it returned around 4am and killed her. Experts believe the bear was attracted to
New data from blockchain analytics firm CryptoQuant shows that miners are rapidly exiting their bitcoin positions. 14,000 bitcoin, worth more than $300 million at its current price, was transferred out of wallets belonging to miners in a single 24-hour period at the end of last week — and in the last few weeks, miners have
The last four runners in the Conservative leadership contest will face another round of voting later, as the party decides who will replace Boris Johnson in Downing Street. Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch made it through Monday’s ballot to continue in the race, while Tom Tugendhat was knocked out. But as
In this article IBM Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), during a television interview in San Francisco, California, July 13, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images IBM shares slid as much as 4% in extended trading on Monday after the company trimmed its 2022 cash forecast. It
Ukrainian and Russian delegates are meeting in Turkey for face-to-face talks aimed at resuming grain exports through the Black Sea currently blocked by Russia. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion has disrupted production and halted shipments. Professor Michael Clarke takes a look at Ukraine’s
Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s one-time personal lawyer, says that Trump’s reported call to a January 6 committee witness signals to him that Trump is “melting down.” #CNN #News
Britons are bracing themselves for extreme disruption, as forecasters predict possible temperatures of more than 40C (104F) in parts of the country this week. Amid warnings that lives are at risk, a national emergency has been declared by the UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office has issued its first-ever red warning for extreme
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf’s major season ended with Australia’s Cameron Smith winning the 150th edition of The Open and lifting the Claret Jug at St. Andrews on Sunday. Smith became the sixth straight player in his 20s to win a major and the second consecutive first-timer. Matt Fitzpatrick picked up his first at the
9:11 AM ET Nate Diaz is the kind of guy who makes more headlines from doing an interview than most fighters get for competing in the cage. He’s one of the most famous athletes in the history of the UFC and remains relevant in any MMA conversation despite having just one win since 2016. Diaz
A team of paleoanthropologists have unearthed a human fossil that is estimated to be around 1.4 million years old. The fossil was found at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site in Spain during excavations on June 30. The fossil contains fragments of a human skull and is said to be the oldest ever found in
Tom Tugendhat has become the latest candidate to be knocked out of the Conservative leadership race. In the third round of voting by Tory MPs, the contenders received the following votes: Kemi Badenoch, 58 Penny Mordaunt, 82 Rishi Sunak, 115 Liz Truss, 71 Mr Tugendhat, 31 Politics Hub: New favourite to be PM after latest
Dramatic footage has captured a passenger plane as it flipped over during a crash-landing on an airport runway. The incident happened at Aden Adde international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The crew and all passengers on board – around 30 – escaped. Video from the scene showed the plane upside down after having apparently tipped
The course of true love never did run smooth, particularly when it comes to the wild world of celebrity romance. So the story of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s path to marriage really is the stuff of Hollywood happy endings. For those who don’t know the background: back in the early 2000s, Affleck and Lopez
While NASA’s Perseverance Rover might not have been successful in finding signs of life on Mars yet, it has discovered a strange piece of an object, which looks like a tangle of string or shredded material that is clinging together. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the image was captured by the
Anti-lock brakes might sound like old tech in cars (and motorcycles to a certain extent), but another two-wheeler has had to deal with brake lock up since its invention: the bicycle. But two different companies have just shown off competing anti-lock braking (ABS) systems designed for e-bikes to improve safety and performance. Electric bikes make
A pumpjack pumps oil in the Inglewood Oil Field as seen from the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area on July 13, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. – US consumer price inflation surged 9.1 percent over the past 12 months to June, the fastest increase since November 1981, according to government data released on July 13.
A Bank of England policymaker has said interest rates could reach 2% or higher in the next year in order to tackle inflation. Michael Saunders, a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said he did not think that such forecasts from financial markets were “implausible or unlikely”. “Rather than focus on a precise