Japan’s space agency said it sent a self-destruct order to its Epsilon rocket after a failed launch on Wednesday because of a problem that meant the craft could not safely fly. The unmanned rocket, designed to launch in three stages, was taking several satellites into orbit on its sixth space mission. “The rocket can’t continue
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A former San Antonio police officer who shot a teenager eating a hamburger in his car in a McDonald’s car park has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault. James Brennand, 25, was charged on Tuesday over the 2 October shooting of Erik Cantu, according to a police statement. The 17-year-old, who
UK government borrowing costs have hit a 20-year high after the Bank of England confirmed its emergency bond-buying programme will end on Friday as planned. On Wednesday morning, it said all temporary and targeted purchases of UK government bonds, known as gilts, would stop. This has been the position throughout and has been “made absolutely
NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity’s ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a
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Employees work on bitcoin mining computers at Bitminer Factory in Florence, Italy. Alessandro Bianchi | Reuters Software used in bitcoin mining just got its first upgrade since late 2012, and a coalition of companies including payments giant Block (formerly Square) is trying to help push the open-source protocol forward to become an industry standard. The
Sky’s security and defence analyst Michael Clarke looks at how Moscow is trying to persuade Western governments that the Kremlin is serious about using nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine. #skynews #ukraine #russia #ukrainewar #kherson #nuclearwar SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook:
In a rare admission, Russia acknowledged losing ground on the battlefield in Ukraine. CNN’s Scott McLean reports. #CNN #news
Tributes have been pouring in for Dame Angela Lansbury after her death at the age of 96. The actress, who starred in TV drama Murder, She Wrote, died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles early on Tuesday, her family said. Born in London, she won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances,
A deliberate attack on NATO energy supplies will be met with a “united and determined response”, the alliance’s chief has vowed. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg pledged to boost protection of critical infrastructure in response to the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines. The EU believes three leaks in the pipelines last month were the work
Renewable energy generators and nuclear power plants face having their revenues capped as part of new government legislation. The Energy Prices Bill will be introduced in the Commons on Wednesday to bring into law its plan to help households and businesses with soaring energy costs over the winter and beyond. But late on Tuesday, the
In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that his company’s newest virtual reality headset, dubbed the Meta Quest Pro, will cost $1,500 and start shipping on Oct. 25. Zuckerberg debuted the device at Meta’s Connect conference, geared toward VR and augmented reality developers. The new
Dame Angela Lansbury, who starred in the hit TV drama Murder, She Wrote, has died at the age of 96. Her family said the actress died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles early on Tuesday, just five days shy of her birthday. The London-born star won five Tony Awards for her Broadway
Honda announced today a major investment in producing electric vehicles and batteries in the US. The company is the latest automaker to take that route in order to comply with requirements linked to the new EV tax credit. The goal is to turn Ohio into Honda’s “EV Hub.” It doesn’t sound like the investment changes
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Tuesday’s key moments. The defensives are the only place to be Semis and U.S.-China tensions Quick mentions: META, STZ 1. The defensives are the only place to be Stocks edged down Tuesday, while
Sky’s Alex Crawford reports from Yampil in Donetsk where the Russians are in retreat and are being hunted down by Ukrainian forces. #ukraine #russia SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports from southern Ukraine in a newly liberated town littered with Russia’s military relics and bodies of Putin’s soldiers. #CNN #News
Oct 11, 2022 Claude Atcher, the chief executive officer of the 2023 rugby World Cup in France, has been sacked after a report by the French Labour Inspectorate found that he oversaw an “extremely degraded social environment” at the organising committee. “Taking note of the report’s conclusions, France 2023’s board has decided to terminate the
In this article LYFT UBER DASH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is interviewed on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, August 2, 2022. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The Biden Labor Department released a proposal Tuesday that could pave the way for regulators and
The calendar might say October, but there’s still plenty of good golf being played around the world. Tom Kim won again on the PGA Tour. Jodi Ewart Shadoff won for the first time in her 11-year LPGA career. And Dustin Johnson became $18 million richer by finishing 16th in a LIV Golf event in Thailand.