Rail passengers are in for more travel chaos as only around one in five trains are set to run today due to another strike. More than 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Network Rail and 15 train operating companies are staging a walkout over jobs, pay and conditions. Around half
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The announcement of Russia’s first mass mobilisation since World War Two – calling up troops for its war in Ukraine – has triggered a rush for its borders, causing concerns in neighbouring nations. Sky’s Dominic Waghorn reports from the Russia-Georgia border, where thousands have fled to avoid the draft. #SkyNews #Ukraine #Russia #Georgia SUBSCRIBE to
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oil executive who spent years in prison, discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mindset as he declared Russian rule over parts of Ukraine. #CNN #news
An Austrian soldier guards the entrance to the OPEC headquarters on October 4, 2022 on the eve of the 45th Meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee and the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting held on October 05, in Vienna, Austria. Joe Klamar | AFP | Getty Images Saudi Arabia’s decision to ally with
The Solar Energy Industries Association, the nonprofit trade association of the US solar industry, just flagged a proposed change to the 2024 International Building Code by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that would do more harm than good to the US solar industry. Bureacratic overreach on solar Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the SEIA, published
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk Mike Blake | Reuters Tesla shares dropped nearly 16% during what CEO Elon Musk called a “very intense 7 days indeed” to one of his 108 million followers on Twitter. Tesla shares closed at $265.25 on Friday, Sept. 30. At market’s close one
5:08 PM ET Associated Press Jon Rahm’s four-footer for birdie on the final hole just missed the cup, capping a frustrating day for the home-crowd favorite at the Spanish Open and dropping him two shots off the lead on Friday. Paul Waring and Stephen Gallacher shared a one-shot lead at the halfway mark. Rahm, seeking
There are a quite shocking number of Russian corpses left in the wake of the Ukrainian blitz on their eastern front. Kyiv’s troops are moving so fast and methodically, there’s no time to collect the enemy’s dead. It’s a grim illustration of Ukraine’s current battlefield successes. As we followed their route through the village of
In this article AMD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), holds a 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processor while speaking during a keynote session at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 9, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty
England have beaten the world champions USA in a friendly match at Wembley. The Lionesses, who won the European Championship in July, went ahead through Lauren Hemp’s 10th-minute finish before Sophia Smith equalised in the 28th minute after Georgia Stanway lost possession near her own box. England then benefited from two VAR checks – one
Liz Truss has “showed the world she is unfit to be prime minister” and is a “symptom of the Westminster dysfunction”, SNP’s deputy leader will say in his opening speech at the party conference. Keith Brown will accuse the prime minister of delivering “more chaos and confusion than even the most pessimistic prediction” when he
The school district at the centre of the mass shooting at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, has suspended its entire police force. Following a review conducted into the massacre at the Robb Elementary School in which 21 people, including 19 children, were killed, the district has announced two police officers will go on “administrative
In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Photo illustration of former President Donald Trump and Twitter logos. Getty Images Elon Musk’s renewed efforts to buy Twitter could pave the way for President Donald Trump‘s return to the platform that permanently banned him a year earlier. If Musk follows through on the deal
Oct 7, 2022 COACHELLA, Calif. — Two flags fly atop a pole in front of a single-story home in the Coachella Valley. The Fundora family chose to live here, in the shadows of mountains encasing the horizon in every direction, because of the familiarity it offers and the peacefulness they can find. Those flags —
Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, has ruled out tearing up the regime put in place to segregate high street lenders’ investment banking arms that was put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Sky News has learnt that Mr Kwarteng told a gathering of industry chief executives this week that bank ring-fencing would not be scrapped
Liz Truss has sacked trade minister Conor Burns from her government “with immediate effect” following an allegation of serious misconduct. The Tory MP for Bournemouth West has also had the whip suspended while the complaint is investigated. A No 10 spokesman said: “Following a complaint of serious misconduct, the prime minister has asked Conor Burns
Sky News’ Dominic Waghorn speaks to Russian men, including veterans, who gather to cross the Georgian border for fear of being drafted and sent to Ukraine. Rumours have spread that people from ethnic minorities from far-flung parts of the country, including Chechnya and Dagestan, are being selected to go to battle in Ukraine. #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asks Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin how the Biden administration is responding to Russia’s “illegal” partial annexation of Ukraine’s Donbas region and Vladimir Putin’s threats of utilizing nuclear weapons. #CNN #news
A new NASA-funded technology for future space missions may charge an electric car in just five minutes on Earth, paving the way for increased adoption of such vehicles, the US space agency said. Researchers at Purdue University, US developed the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) to enable two-phase fluid flow and heat transfer experiments
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz last week announced a package worth 200 billion euros ($198 billion) designed to help with soaring energy prices. The “defensive shield” includes a gas price brake and a cut in sales tax for fuel. Steffi Loos | Pool | Reuters Amid downbeat predictions of a recession in Germany and the wider