The founding family of 7-Eleven’s Japanese parent company has failed to secure the money to buy it out, the company said Thursday, months after they launched a bid worth over $50 billion to fend off a foreign takeover. Seven & i Holdings, which sits atop a vast network of 85,000 convenience stores, primarily in Asia […]
Sean Dilley, Molly Stazicker and Esme Stallard BBC Transport and BBC Climate & Science PA A second runway would be fully operational by the end of the decade if plans are approved, Gatwick says A decision is expected later on whether Gatwick airport can expand to two simultaneously functioning runways. The airport wants to move […]
Tuesday night, Lionel Messi did what he usually does. On a Champions League stage, he delivered a sensational highlight and helped his club advance, with Inter Miami dismissing Sporting Kansas City (4-1 on aggregate) to move to the Concacaf Champions Cup last 16. But hours earlier, Messi was in less familiar territory, having received his […]
On Saturday morning in Culver City, Calif., Marie Hernandes finally found her eggs. A friend had asked for a vanilla birthday cake, so all week after work, she’d visited multiple stores — Ralphs, Target, Walmart — only to find the eggs sold out. Finally, an early-morning run to Costco landed her two 24-packs at $7.69 […]
Lawyers for the pipeline company Energy Transfer and Greenpeace fired their opening salvos in a North Dakota courtroom Wednesday morning in a civil trial that could bankrupt the storied environmental group. The suit revolves around the role Greenpeace played in massive protests against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. The pipeline, […]
Nvidia, the chip giant at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, said business remained strong, despite fears of a bubble stirred by the launch of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s launch on the scene last month. Sales of the firm’s chips hit more than $39bn (£30.7bn) over the three months ended 27 January, up […]
Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Afghan Service, Kabul BBC Thousands of cameras are now being used to monitor the movements of Kabul residents In a crowded control centre, surrounded by dozens of TV screens, the Taliban’s police force proudly shows off its newly-acquired network of 90,000 CCTV cameras – used to watch over the day-to-day lives of […]
It’s a tax season unlike any other: As millions of Americans dutifully file their returns, the Trump administration is calling for the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service and plans to fire as many as 7,000 workers — all while Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is seeking access to detailed taxpayer information. It is […]
President Trump said on Wednesday that he would revoke a Biden-era policy that allowed more oil to be produced in Venezuela and exported, dealing a blow to the country’s government and Chevron, which produces oil there. Mr. Trump did not mention Chevron in his post on Truth Social, saying only that he would reverse concessions […]
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Amazon Amazon told the BBC Alexa+ will be available on the “overwhelming majority” of its Echo devices Amazon has unveiled Alexa+, an overhauled version of its virtual assistant with which it hopes users will share “just about anything”. Rapid recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have caused huge growth in software […]