Scarlett Johansson has welcomed a baby boy with husband Colin Jost, he has announced on social media. The couple had kept the pregnancy private until earlier this week, when comedian and Saturday Night Live star Jost reportedly revealed they were to become parents at a stand-up show in Connecticut. For Hollywood star Johansson, this is
A leading cleaning products maker has warned of a profits slump as it counts the cost of higher raw material costs and HGV driver shortages. UK-based McBride, which makes own-label goods from detergents to dishwasher tablets on behalf of retailers, said it was starting to see “distribution challenges” – particularly in the UK and Germany.
Stock markets have fallen sharply after signs that the US Federal Reserve could start pulling away emergency support for the world’s biggest economy later this year. In London, the FTSE 100 was down by more than 160 points – or about 2% – in early trading following the publication of minutes of the Fed’s latest
The Taliban have urged people to leave Kabul airport after 12 people were killed there since Sunday. They died in and around the airport either as a result of gunshots or a stampede, Taliban and NATO officials said. Hundreds are still trying to flee Afghanistan via the capital’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. But the Taliban
An acute oxygen shortage in India’s hospitals has left desperate people begging and bartering for air. Britain announced it was sending “more than six hundred pieces of vital medical equipment” which will arrive on Tuesday – but the people on the ground have yet to see any substantial help from their own government or from
Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined a request to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate, signaling that similar policies going into effect amid a Covid-19 surge could pass legal muster. #CNN #News
By Yuning Liu & Mia Reback In March 2021, 24 local governments in Maryland joined together on a plan to purchase enough renewable energy to power more than 246,000 homes a year. They did this by issuing a joint request for proposal (RFP) through the Baltimore Regional Cooperative Purchasing Committee (BRCPC) to seek a supply of
People who become infected with the Delta variant even after being fully vaccinated may still pass the virus on, undermining hopes of herd immunity, new research suggests. Scientists at the University of Oxford found levels of the virus could be just as high in people who get COVID despite having both jabs as in those
Murdoch is upset — the major Australian banks will no longer lend money to the big carbon emitters. His flagship “Australian” newspaper carries this headline front and centre in its weekend finance edition: “Foreign Funding for Fossil Fuels.” The Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, Westpac, and National Australia Bank (NAB) are closing their books on fossil fuel
In this article TSLA A Tesla Model S car is displayed at a Tesla showroom on November 5, 2013 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Some Tesla customers in Florida and California have experienced delivery delays of weeks or months, forcing them to rely on borrowed cars,
Zambian president-elect Hakainde Hichilema won a landslide victory in the country’s election last week, beating the incumbent, Edgar Lungu. Hichilema’s plan is to ramp up mining in particular to jump-start Zambia’s economy – and provide the rapidly growing electric vehicle battery industry with crucial cobalt and copper. Cobalt and copper Zambia is the world’s sixth-largest
In this article VOW3-DE RNO-FR 6752.T-JP 7203.T-JP BMW-DE Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images A BMW project centered around the development of a long-distance electric vehicle battery has been awarded £26.2 million ($36.07 million) in joint funding from industry and the U.K. government. The Oxford-based project, called BMW-UK-BEV, is one of four
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been criticised for being too busy to speak with Afghanistan’s foreign minister as the country descended into chaos. Mr Raab has been accused of failing to ask Hanif Atmar for urgent assistance in evacuating Afghan interpreters who had worked for UK military personnel during the 20-year conflict in the country.
Global adoption of cryptocurrency has taken off in the last year, up 881%, with Vietnam, India and Pakistan firmly in the lead, according to new data from Chainalysis. It is the second year the blockchain data firm has released its Global Crypto Adoption Index, which ranks 154 countries according to metrics such as peer-to-peer exchange
Tesla is looking to become a retail electricity provider in Texas, according to Energy Choice Matters. The article noted that Tesla is seeking the certificate and it applied for Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate. Tesla Energy Ventures is seeking to use the trade name Tesla, and in the application, Tesla said: “The applicant
Ministers are continuing their scramble for a co-ordinated international response to the crisis in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s dramatic takeover. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday night resumed his series of calls with world leaders following the fall of the central Asian country to the extremist group. He spoke with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi,
After his breakout role in Crazy Rich Asians, a role he won after a global casting call, Henry Golding has established himself as a popular leading man. But his new film sees him taking on a new type of character, the fan favourite Snake Eyes from the GI Joe universe. The movie tells the origin
The UK government has ordered regulators to investigate the acquisition of British defence firm Ultra Electronics by a US private equity firm on the grounds of national security. Ultra, which sells radars and other hi-tech electrical systems to the British military among others, is being bought by rival Cobham, which was acquired last year by
The US does not currently have the capability to evacuate large numbers of Americans who are outside Kabul – and troops are having to negotiate with the Taliban to allow people passage to the airport, the US defence secretary has said. Speaking from the Pentagon, Lloyd J Austin III said the military was “laser focused”
10:17 AM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Defending champion Dominic Thiem has pulled out of the US Open tennis tournament, saying Wednesday he will miss the rest of the year because of a right wrist injury. Thiem was hurt in June while playing in the Mallorca Open and said the pain returned last