Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Watch: Lift-off for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as rocket New Glenn launches into orbit Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]
President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning Tuesday, companies bringing products into the United States from Canada and Mexico will pay a 25 percent tariff; importers bringing products in from China will pay an additional 10 percent on top of existing levies. The president has insisted that these […]
The next Welsh parliament elections are more than a year away but the first minister, Eluned Morgan, appeared to be on the campaign trail already as she swept through the town of Blackwood in the south Wales valleys. Within half an hour, she had spoken to dozens of people, asking what they wanted of her […]
The Visit Rwanda campaign has successfully raised the east African country’s profile but Rwanda’s government has been accused of investing in sport to enhance its global image – a strategy labelled by critics as ‘sportswashing’. A sleeve partnership with Arsenal began in 2018, with the latest sponsorship reported to be worth more than £10m ($12.39 […]
The father of the 11-year-old boy from Los Angeles who pulled the Paul Skenes MLB Debut Patch autographed card thought it was either a checklist or a Topps promotional card. The kind of inserts typically thrown away. The mother asked, “Who’s Paul Skenes?” The boy knew. He knew even through sleepy, crusty eyes around 6 […]
In his first week in office, President Trump tried to browbeat governments across the world into ending the flow of drugs into America, accepting planes full of deported migrants, halting wars and ceding territory to the United States. For all of them, he deployed a common threat: Countries that did not meet his demands would […]
Robin van Persie’s Heerenveen side were held to a 2-2 draw by Fortuna Sittard. Getty Heerenveen boss Robin van Persie was left exasperated after match officials mistakenly allowed Fortuna Sittard to field 12 players against his side on Saturday. The incident took place in the 88th minute with Heerenveen 2-1 up, when Fortuna made a double-substitution […]
Oleksandr Zinchenko had failed to read the room. Last summer, on vacation in the south of France, the Arsenal left-back had nowhere to run. Not in a metaphorical sense: he needed to find a pitch to maintain his fitness for a couple of hours a day before returning to Premier League duty. Fortunately, he thought, […]
Fire and wind are certain to shape the future of Los Angeles as the world warms. Los Angeles had started taking steps to prepare. But there are lessons it can learn from other cities adapting to extreme fire weather: managing yards; taking care of neighbors; making it easier to get out of harm’s way. One […]
Michael Race & Lou Newton Business reporter & reporter, BBC News Getty Images Barclays has said the “technical issue” impacting payments and transactions for customers has been resolved following three days of disruption. The bank said delayed payments had been processed and it was working on “bringing balances up to date for some of our […]