8:14 AM BST Ian Foster has shrugged off queries over his future as New Zealand coach ahead of a tour of South Africa that could spell the end of his tenure. Despite huge pressure, Foster survived a New Zealand Rugby review into the 2-1 series defeat to Ireland, with his assistant coaches instead taking the
A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of a seven-year-old boy and broke it during the ongoing match with him at the Moscow Open last week, according to news reports. The incident took place on July 19 and videos of it were soon circulated on the Internet. A clip, shared by the Baza Telegram channel, shows the
Solar energy jobs were up in 47 states and increased 9% percent across the United States from 2020 to 2021, reaching a total of 255,037 solar workers, reports the independent nonprofit Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC). According to IREC’s annual National Solar Jobs Census released today, this job growth took place in a year of record solar
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei on July 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Alexey Furman | Getty Images Major U.S. and European banks should be prosecuted for “committing war crimes” over their financing of trade with the Russian regime, according to a top aide to
The world’s lender of last resort has appealed for central banks to raise interest rates and for governments to take a responsible stance with public finances while warning of a harder impact from the global inflation shock. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) used its updated World Economic Outlook to take another red pen to growth
Vidente, the owner of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, said on Tuesday it has held discussions about a possible sale of its stake to FTX. Talks of another acquisition are part of FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s (above) aggressive acquisition approach amid a major downturn in the cryptocurrency market. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg |
Scientists at Rice University in the United States have figured out how to hack the brains of fruit flies in order to make them remote-controlled. The team of neuroengineers were able to use magnetic signals to activate targeted neurons that control the body position and movement of the flies. According to a study published
Droughts have been declared across swathes of England as the result of the driest summer in 50 years. On Friday, the Environment Agency (EA) announced that drought trigger thresholds have been met in eight parts of England – across southwest, southern, eastern and central England. As part of their announcement, officials warned that during the
Jason Momoa is doing “okay” after he was reportedly involved in a head-on traffic collision with a motorbike, his agent has told Sky News. The Aquaman star is understood to have been driving his gold 1970 Oldsmobile on a bendy canyon road near Los Angeles when the crash happened at the weekend. While the 42-year-old
The blue on blue attacks have ramped up after Rishi Sunak was accused of “mansplaining” to Liz Truss during their first head-to-head TV debate. Mr Sunak spoke over Ms Truss several times as she attempted to explain her tax-cutting policies to the BBC audience of Tory members. This prompted accusations of “mansplaining” – when a
You can watch our full interview with Putin’s spokesman here: https://youtu.be/L0WScHPbaPA Dmitry Peskov has admitted there have been “significant” losses of Russian troops and said it is a “tragedy”. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman denied Russia has carried out war crimes in Ukraine telling Sky News we are “living in days of fakes and lies”. For the
In this episode of “Unfiltered,” SE Cupp raises the biggest question that Americans should ask themselves after watching the January 6 hearings. #cnn #News
Long before you see the devastation, you can smell it: the ash blowing through the air, the trees still smoking and smouldering. More than 6,000 residents have been evacuated out of the danger zone, while 3,000 firefighters have been deployed. They are battling to contain the Oak Fire, yet so far only 16% of it
Heathrow Airport and easyJet, two of the air industry players affected by this year’s flight chaos, have revealed large financial hits while outlining how they are coping during the summer rush. The low-cost carrier said cancellations and delays caused by staff shortages at airports and in the air had cost it £133m over its latest
The pope donned an indigenous feathered headdress as he visited Canada to apologise for the Catholic Church’s roles in schools where indigenous children were abused. Pope Francis said the forced assimilation of native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalised generations in ways which are still being felt today. “I
A flashy Rolls Royce-driving Gucci suit-wearing New York priest says his showy lifestyle was not to blame for a gunpoint robbery that happened during one of his live-streamed services. Dramatic footage shown on Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead’s social media live platforms captured the moment three hooded, masked gunmen burst into his service and stole the hundreds
The average electric car price in the United States hit $66,000 last month – a more than 13% increase year over year. That’s a bit disappointing since the promise has been that EV prices would come down, but this price increase isn’t the whole story. One of the biggest complaints about electric vehicles remains their
The busiest earnings week of the summer is here — oh, and the Federal Reserve will announce its latest decision on interest rates Wednesday afternoon as the U.S. central bank tries tame the hottest inflation in four decades. Don’t forget the first look at second-quarter gross domestic product Thursday morning. That’s when we find out
In this article AMZN WMT The front desk of the Amazon office is pictured in New York, May 1, 2019. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Shares of Amazon fell more than 4% in extended trading on Monday after Walmart said it was lowering its quarterly and full-year profit guidance. Walmart announced after the bell on Monday
It’s five months since Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine and four since Russia published any kind of casualty count. 1,351 Russian servicemen killed they said then, with no update since. No word on the missing either. “The families aren’t told where they’ve gone missing or the circumstances,” says Valentina Melnikova who runs the Committee