Getty Images More than three decades after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have begun to unplug from Russia’s electricity grid and join the EU’s network. The two-day process began on Saturday morning, with residents told to charge their devices, stock up on food and water, and prepare as if severe weather is […]
Welsh National Opera chorus members held a protest against funding cuts at the end of a performance in Cardiff on Saturday night. The WNO announced last year that it was cutting back its spring tour in 2025 along with other measures due to “increasing financial challenges”. Chorus members displayed t-shirts and waved placards saying Save […]
The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social media account that his family had issued a cryptocurrency called $Trump. In those first minutes, a crypto wallet with a unique identification code […]
BBC In a gleaming laboratory in Edinburgh, robotic machines whirr and mix. The final product that they are creating will be a pine-smelling chemical that can be used as an ingredient in perfumes. But the starting point is very different: a brown, gloopy, fat mixture, recently fished out from below ground – fatbergs. Fatbergs are […]
Joshua Nevett Political reporter BBC Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has said there are “no excuses” to not build the 1.5 million new homes Labour promised in its election manifesto. The government has said it will meet the house-building target in England by 2029, before the next general election. BBC analysis shows the number of […]
During a news conference four day after the fires began, Kathryn Barger, the chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said she had been forced to pay a $95 fee to the company to make a $500 donation to a friend whose home had been lost in the fire. “I was shocked,” she […]
Hibs defender Rocky Bushiri, out of contract at the end of the season, says he has not had any talks about extending his stay at Easter Road. (Edinburgh Evening News), external Manager Brendan Rodgers has no doubt Celtic can hurt Bayern Munich when the team meet on Champions League duty in Glasgow next week. (Scottish […]
Borussia Dortmund slumped to a 2-1 defeat to visitors VfB Stuttgart on Saturday in a disappointing debut for new coach Niko Kovac that dropped his team further away from the Champions League qualification spots. Kovac took over last week after Dortmund, who face Sporting in a Champions League playoff next week, sacked coach Nuri Sahin […]
We’ve got a whirlwind of news out of Washington — the carried interest tax exemption in the cross hairs, the latest on DOGE and an update on settlement talks between CBS and President Trump — but you should also pay attention to this news out of Washington State. Amazon said it planned to spend $100 […]
Real striker Kylian Mbappe’s second-half equaliser cancels out Julian Alvarez’s penalty for Atletico in Madrid derby. Kylian Mbappe scored in his first derby against Atletico Madrid as Real Madrid fought back for a 1-1 draw and kept its slim lead in the Spanish league. Julian Alvarez put Atletico ahead from the penalty spot in the […]