A wind turbine and coal in Lower Saxony, Germany. The EU’s desire to wean itself off Russian hydrocarbons means it will need to find fossil fuels from other parts of the world to plug supply gaps. Mia Bucher | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The European Commission has fleshed out details of a plan to
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Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray shows declassified video of an unidentified object during a House subcommittee hearing on “unidentified aerial phenomena,” popularly known as UFOs. #CNN #News
Two people died and more than 40 others were injured after a tornado ripped through a US mobile home park. The tornado struck Gaylord, a town of about 4,200 people, roughly 230 miles northwest of Detroit in Michigan on Friday. In a region where tornadoes are rare, the National Weather Service said there had been
Home Secretary Priti Patel will tell MPs “we do not make policy through mob rule” as she urges them to support a new Public Order Bill. She is attempting to reintroduce measures which have previously been blocked by the House of Lords as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. These include introducing
Carpet bombing is indiscriminate – devastatingly destructive and utterly random. But if you’re an advancing army, it’s a deadly and effective tactic, and it’s being used mercilessly against the townspeople of Soledar. The town in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas has seen its topography alter dramatically in the last 72 hours as the Russians intensify their assault
Russia has published a list of 963 Americans who have been “permanently banned” from entering the country in response to US sanctions related to the invasion of Ukraine. Actor Morgan Freeman, 84, is among the names on the list, apparently as a result of appearing in a video clip in 2017 that accused the Russian
Regular viewers may have trouble believing their eyes when Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall make a guest appearance in EastEnders early next month. Charles and Camilla were in Albert Square in March when they visited the new Elstree set, meeting cast and crew. But now it’s emerged they also performed for the soap
Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called for benefits to be immediately increased in line with inflation to help the poorest cope with the cost of living. The senior Tory MP also called for tax cuts for those in work to help “the squeezed middle”. “During the course of this spike, we should
A child actor who starred in the blockbuster 1975 film Jaws has become a police chief on the island where it was filmed. Jonathan Searle had a minor role as one of the pranksters who placed a fake shark fin in the waters off Amity Island. Now, 47 years later, he has been named police
In this article F TSLA GM GOOGL An Apollo Robotaxi runs at Shougang Park as Baidu launches China’s first driverless taxi service in the city on May 2, 2021 in Beijing, China. He Luqi | Qianlong.com | Visual China Group | Getty Images For years, Alphabet‘s Waymo and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles are
I’ll admit it – things have gotten pretty weird and wild in this column in the past. But while vehicles like electric submarines, backyard trains, and party buses shaped like tigers all have a certain indescribable charm to them, this week’s electric vehicle stretches the limits of what you could reasonably call “a vehicle.” But
Tesla’s Model 3 at the Tesla store in Washington, D.C. Salwan Georges | The Washington Post | Getty Images Automakers from Tesla to Rivian to Cadillac are hiking prices on their electric vehicles amid changing market conditions and rising commodity costs, specifically for key materials needed for EV batteries. Battery prices have been declining for
Anthony Albanese is known as a pragmatic politician willing to work outside ideological lines – and someone whose first taste of politics came as a child. Australia’s new prime minister is from a humble background, reminding supporters of that as he made his acceptance speech on Saturday. “It says a lot about our great country,”
Scientists have long tried to create new allotropes (forms) of carbon because of their versatility and usefulness for the industry. But only limited success was achieved so far. That is set to change now. In a major breakthrough, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, US, have successfully synthesised the long-hypothesised “next-generation wonder material” graphyne.
Sky News’ Special Correspondent Alex Crawford is in Bakhmut, a town in the heart of the Donbas region in Ukraine where evidence of new attacks are cropping up. The Russian forces are targeting the centres of heavily built up residential areas. #SkyNews #Ukraine #Russia #frontline For the latest developments in Ukraine: https://qrcode.skynews.com/skynews/ukraineblog SUBSCRIBE to our
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh shadows a group of volunteers leading the defense against Russian troops in the small Ukrainian village of Ruska Lozova. #CNN #News
NASA will soon be scaling up its documentation of environmental and societal changes on Earth. The space agency will achieve this by working in collaboration with its partners in Europe and Japan, namely ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). The collaboration will include utilising all the Earth-observing satellite data available so
NASA is planning to make another attempt at testing the Artemis 1 SLS rocket in early June for the last time before launching it into space. The space agency said it will bring the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in early June
Australia’s opposition Labor Party has won power for the first time since 2007, after Scott Morrison conceded defeat of the ruling conservatives. The party’s leader, Anthony Albanese, is to become prime minister after Mr Morrison’s conservative Liberal Party failed to win the minimum 76 seats needed for a majority in the 151-seat parliament. Labor has
What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn’s moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was launched 65 years ago. But we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of what is knowable about other