Swimming pools and the irrigation of gardens require significant amounts of water. Tom Merton | Ojo Images | Getty Images The unsustainable consumption of the rich — including the use of swimming pools, garden irrigation and washing cars — is a key driver of urban water crises, according to a new study that calls for
Boris Johnson quoted Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day in his final address to the Commons as prime minister. “‘Hasta la vista, Baby’ – thank you”, he signed off to MPs last July. The quotation, literally “until the view” in Spanish, is usually taken to mean “until we meet again” – a
Kim Jong Un “guided” the test of a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, according to North Korean state media. The new Hwasong-18 weapon will “radically promote” the country’s nuclear counterattack capability, KCNA reports. North Korea fired what appeared to be a new model ballistic missile on Thursday, South Korea said. The launch triggered a scare
A national guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents is due to appear in court later today. Jack Teixeira is set to be charged with removing or transmitting classified national defence information, which is a crime under the National Espionage Act. The 21-year-old’s arrest raises fresh questions about America’s ability to safeguard its most
Doctors who treated a British woman after she caught “break-bone fever” in the south of France have warned climate change could cause outbreaks as far north as the UK. The 44-year-old woman was infected with dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, while visiting family near Nice last September and developed a fever, muscle pain, headache and rash.
A 12-year-old boy has made his first appearance in court, charged with murder following the death of a 60-year-old woman who was hit by a car. The boy, who is accused of murdering grandmother Marcia Grant in Sheffield, has been remanded into secure accommodation following an appearance at the city’s youth court. He is next
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joins CNN’s Dana Bash after ProPublica’s report stated that Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, have gone on several luxury trips involving travel subsidized by and stays at properties owned by a GOP megadonor. #CNN #News #shorts
Members of the Royal College of Nursing are to go on strike again after they voted against the latest government pay offer. This is despite a recommendation from union leaders that they accept it and means there will be a round-the-clock 48-hour strike – without exemptions – from 8pm on 30 April to 8pm on
Members of the Royal College of Nursing are to go on strike again after they voted against the latest government pay offer. The result comes despite a recommendation from union leaders that they accept it and means there will be a round-the-clock 48-hour strike – without exemptions – from 8pm on 30 April to 8pm
Mere months after sharing its production timeline for a new high-volume facility in Mexico, lidar sensor developer Luminar has taken the factory online ahead of schedule and has already begun delivering the first Iris sensors manufactured at the site to one of its largest customers. Luminar Technologies Inc. ($LAZR) is an automotive component company founded
Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, who was killed Apr. 4, 2023. Source: MobileCoin San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin tells CNBC that an arrest has been made in the April 4 fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee. Earlier on Thursday, local San Francisco news outlet Mission Local reported that police went
2:00 PM ET Associated Press Chase Elliott won’t stop snowboarding or participating in any of the other off-track activities he enjoys, even after an accident in Colorado sidelined NASCAR’s most popular driver with a broken leg. Elliott will return this weekend at Martinsville Speedway after missing six Cup races with a broken left tibia that
The chancellor has told Sky News there is “no room for complacency” in tackling the UK’s economic problems after official figures revealed no GDP growth in February. But Jeremy Hunt said that while inflation was too high and growth too low, he was confident that his budget plans unveiled last month would help turn things
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon is introducing a cloud service called Bedrock that developers can use to enhance their software with artificial intelligence systems that can generate text, similar to the engine behind the popular ChatGPT chatbot powered by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI. The announcement indicates that the largest provider
A teenager from Essex has been sentenced to at least six years in prison after admitting he was planning a terror attack on the police and military. Matthew King, 19, from Wickford, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on 18 May last year, and charged with the preparation of terrorist acts. King had told an
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said he doesn’t pay much attention to the company’s stock price, even after the shares lost half their value in 2022 amid fears of a recession and a bad year for tech stocks across the board. “I don’t spend a lot
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of being a “total fraud” and the “wettest Labour leader” on crime by government minister Chris Philp. Mr Philp, who is responsible for policing, attacked the Labour leader’s record on crime, claiming it was “worse” than that of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. In response, Labour said Mr Philp “owes
The leader of an online group behind suspected US military document leaks is national guardsman Jack Teixeira, officials have told NBC News. Teixeira, 21, is said to have overseen a private online group, containing around 30 people, in which the leaked documents were shared. He is a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts
Nickelodeon star Drake Bell has been reported missing by police. The actor, 36, who starred in the hit children’s show “Drake & Josh” from 2004 to 2007, was last seen in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Wednesday night. Police say Bell is considered “missing and endangered”. In a post on Facebook – which referred to Bell
A mother and father have been found guilty of murdering their baby son on Christmas Day in a “savage and brutal” killing. Cannabis-smoking Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22, burnt and beat their baby “in repeated acts of severe violence” in the days before his death. Both were convicted on Friday after a five-week