John Lennon’s sister is celebrating his 80th birthday with a series of special events in Liverpool. Julia Baird is one of the stewards of the Beatles star’s legacy, which she describes as “anti-war, equality, diversity – all the things that we’ve gotten nowhere with, that we’re still talking about today”. Like Lennon, Ms Baird is
Month: October 2020
Zero Motorcycles recently teamed up with Deus ex Machina to create the first-ever fully customized Zero SR/S electric motorcycle. Zero has occasionally collaborated with designers who have taken Zero’s platform in entirely new (and often shocking) directions. The modularity of electric motorcycles and lack of conventional design constraints like gas tanks and internal combustion engines
Many investors are speculating that Big Oil dividends could be in danger given how low the price of crude has dropped this year, but in an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Chevron CEO Michael Wirth defended his company’s ability to keep its dividend intact. “We continue to have a very strong balance sheet so our
A passenger has given birth prematurely to a baby boy on a flight in India. Flight attendants helped deliver the infant who “cried mid-air” on Wednesday night’s IndiGo flight from Delhi to Bengaluru. In a statement, the airline confirmed the new arrival was a baby boy. Was on @indigo6E 122flight to BLR,woman gives birth to
Men work at a distribution station in the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images In the six years since Amazon held its first Prime Day, the marquee shopping event has always been held in mid-July as an attempt to drum up sales during the sluggish
Nicola Sturgeon insists she has “nothing to hide” over the Alex Salmond inquiry, after being accused of misleading parliament about when she first knew of allegations against him. The first minister previously said she was first made aware of complaints against her predecessor when he told her in a meeting at her home on 2
8:17 AM ET With a key matchup between UFC men’s bantamweight contenders Marlon Moraes (23-6-1) and Cory Sandhagen (12-2) set to headline this weekend’s event on “Fight Island” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, it feels like a good time to talk about one of the UFC’s most intriguing divisions. As far as the promotion’s
Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google on Thursday announced that its voice assistant can now open and search through some of the most popular apps available for Android phones. That means you can now do more specific things with Google Assistant besides just opening an app. You can
Six men have been charged with plotting to overthrow Michigan’s government and kidnap its governor. They are accused of conspiring to abduct Gretchen Whitmer from her holiday home, with one of the suspects saying that he wanted to try her for “treason”. According to a court filing, they plotted for months, consulted and trained with
October 8th, 2020 by George Harvey Image from the National Park Service Digital Image Archives, public domain, Wikimedia Commons President Trump has claimed to be economically successful based on a rather small set of metrics. One is joblessness data. Another is the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJI). There are people who believe in his success,
Donald Trump’s campaign has proposed pushing back the final two presidential debates with Joe Biden by one week. Earlier, the US president said he would refuse to take part in a debate on 15 October that organisers were planning to do virtually in response to his coronavirus diagnosis. In a statement, Trump campaign manager Bill
The UK has recorded 17,540 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours – 3,300 more than yesterday. Nottingham now has the highest weekly rate of new cases in England after more than 2,000 cases were recorded in the city in one week – this is the equivalent of 689.1 cases per 100,000 people A
8:58 AM ET Steve KimESPN The boxing world is catching its collective breath following a fight for the ages on Saturday between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk. The pair channeled Naseem Hamed-Kevin Kelley, Micky Ward-Arturo Gatti I and a bit of George Foreman-Ron Lyle all in the span of five rounds. But with Zepeda’s hard-earned
Theresa May has led a fierce onslaught by Tory ex-cabinet ministers against a housing shake-up proposed by Boris Johnson, which could lead to some building going ahead without planning permission. Backed by her former cabinet allies Damian Green, Jeremy Hunt and Chris Grayling – and several more ex-ministers – the former prime minister demanded a
More than a thousand consultants from Deloitte are now working on Test and Trace, according to newly-released documents that underline the scale of the government’s reliance on the private sector. According to documents released by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) under Freedom of Information rules, there are currently 1,114 consultants from the
Everyone knows about King Henry VIII – we study him at school, and there are countless book and several TV shows dedicated to the events of his life. But the Starzplay TV series The Spanish Princess is trying to give a new perspective to that period, looking at what went on through the eyes of
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