Faisal Islam & Tom Espiner Getty Images British carmakers will meet ministers on Friday morning to discuss their response to US President Donald Trump’s placing 25% tariffs on car imports from next week, the BBC understands. The UK government is trying to negotiate exemptions from a wide range of US import levies due to come […]
MARS, Pa. — It’s just after lunch on a snowy January day, and the math teacher in Room 222 is sketching Pascal’s triangle on the whiteboard. Andy Bednar did not go to Cornell to teach advanced algebra. He went there to pitch for the baseball team, kick for the football team and study civil environmental […]
Natalie Sherman Business reporter, BBC News Watch: US drivers weigh in on Trump’s new auto tariffs A day after US President Donald Trump said he would hit foreign cars and car parts with a new import tax of 25%, many of the world’s biggest automakers appeared stunned into silence, as they took in a move […]
Society’s move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say – fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins. The Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) experts looked back over hospital records in England since the Millennium. Procedures to remove foreign objects, including coins, from children’s throats, airways and […]
Shubham Agarwal Technology Reporter Jay Springett Jay Springett experimented with new social platforms Jay Springett, a tech strategist and podcast host, joined the social media app Butterflies AI out of curiosity, and ended up staying for more than six months. The idea of Butterflies is to allow human and AI personas to interact. Mr Springett’s […]
Cristiano Ronaldo is set to be a character in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. SNK * All in-game footage displayed is work-in-progress. Design and specifications are subject to change. Cristiano Ronaldo has announced that his latest foray into the world of entertainment will see him included as a playable character in a new video game that is […]
The Biden administration required coal- and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies’ brains and cause heart disease in adults. Now, the Trump administration is offering companies an extraordinary out: Send an email, and they might be given permission by President Trump to bypass the new […]
Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images Vietnam’s PM has said he would “golf all day long” with Trump Countries around the world are braced for Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day in America!!!” next week. The US president’s deadline to impose reciprocal tariffs on trading partners will come just days after he hit foreign carmakers with […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This fall will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Carolina Panthers’ second Super Bowl season, a magical run that featured a 14-0 start, rollicking sideline celebrations and an MVP award for Cam Newton, who was in the middle of everything. The team has yet to announce plans for how or if it […]
A Kenyan police officer deployed in Haiti as part of the international security force has been killed after an attack by suspected gang members, the country’s transitional council says, after he was initially reported missing. “This valiant policeman, committed to the side of the Haitian forces to fight against insecurity, has made the ultimate sacrifice […]