Primark’s owner says autumn COVID-19 lockdowns have resulted in an estimated £430m hit to sales but insists the fashion chain remains on track to deliver improved profits. Associated British Foods (ABF) said in an update ahead of its AGM that only 34 of its stores across Europe remained closed amid continued coronavirus disruption to trading
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Tesla isn’t the only upstart auto industry player having a big year. Luminar, which creates lidar technology critical to many automakers’ autonomous driving efforts, is going public on Thursday through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and the deal will make Luminar co-founder and CEO Austin Russell a billionaire — at the age of 25.
A Chinese space probe has lifted off from the surface of the Moon to return to Earth, an ambitious effort to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades. Beijing is looking to catch up with the US and Russia after taking decades to match its rivals’ achievements and has poured billions into its
Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory could still have a future after its vast telescope dramatically collapsed this week, US officials said Thursday. The structure was destroyed on Tuesday when its 900-ton receiver platform, which was suspended 450 feet (140 metres) in the air, fell loose and plunged onto the radio dish below. Ralph Gaume, director of
Call it a special delivery: after six years in space, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission. The fridge-sized probe, launched in December 2014, has already thrilled scientists by landing on and gathering material from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres (185
Joe Biden will ask all Americans to wear face masks for the first 100 days of his term to stop the spread of coronavirus. The president-elect, who has frequently emphasised mask-wearing as a “patriotic duty”, will also order masks to be worn in all US government buildings. Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Mr Biden said:
8:33 PM ET ESPN News Services ALBANY, Calif. — Golden Gate Fields has extended its suspension of live horse racing until Dec. 26, when its winter meet is scheduled to begin. The San Francisco Bay area track has been closed since Nov. 13 because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Initially, the track was closed for a
Donald Trump’s legal battle to overturn the election isn’t going well for him. His legal team continues to lose cases in the key states it so desperately hoped to win back from Joe Biden. They’ve been trying to make the case for a grand conspiracy – concocted by everyone from China, to Venezuela, to Joe
December 3rd, 2020 by Guest Contributor Photo of prototype of largest wind turbine in the world, courtesy GE Renewables. Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.By John Rogers, Senior energy analyst The first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States may use the largest wind turbine in the world. Here are a few ways to
Jason Kilar Getty Images On Thursday, AT&T‘s WarnerMedia announced it would release its entire 2021 slate of films directly on HBO Max at the same time they hit theaters. Investors and industry-watchers greeted it as earth-shattering news for the movie theater industry. AMC Entertainment fell 16% on the day. Cinemark fell 22%. WarnerMedia CEO Jason
Warner Bros will release all of its 2021 films, including Dune and The Matrix 4, online on the same day they hit cinemas. The move to put such major blockbusters straight on streaming service HBO Max is another blow to the struggling cinema industry, which has largely closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bangladesh government is moving thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the coming days – despite human rights groups’ calls to stop the process. Bhasan Char, which emerged from the sea less than 20 years ago, is exposed to annual flooding and cyclones during the monsoon season, which lasts for five months
The latest round of talks on a post-Brexit trade deal “did not go well”, Sky News understands, with a UK source suggesting that hopes of an agreement are now “receding”. According to Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates, the sticking point was the so-called “level playing field”. This is the issue of preventing unfair competition
Great Britain is arguably better known as a bleak little island on the edge of Europe, rather than as a renewable powerhouse, but ‘the times they are a-changin’. It won’t be surprising that Britain with its considerable coastline is ‘blowing in the wind’, but what is less well known is that occasionally there is sunshine
December 3rd, 2020 by Jesper Berggreen I received an email from my old acquaintance Robert A. Freling from Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) inviting me to watch a new documentary in which he and his team plays a major role: “Switch On.” The film is released from Switch Energy Alliance, in which Bureau of Economic
5:35 AM ET I began covering college football in 1987. Nick Saban wouldn’t be a head coach for another three years. Mack Brown had 11 career victories. The first story I wrote about the lack of racial diversity among major college football head coaches ran in 1992. The number of Black head coaches in major
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