He is one of England’s most famous ever players, but Wayne Rooney says he’s almost unrecognisable in his new home of Washington. It suits him too. The striker is enjoying blending in among the crowds and taking his family out to enjoy their new home city. His £46m deal to join the MLS might be
CNN political experts discuss a new report issued by the January 6 select committee about Mark Meadows’ communications around the Capitol insurrection, including his use of private email accounts, text messages and a messenger app. #CNN #News
The UK’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, soon to be the world’s largest when it’s completed in 2022, will produce its first power before December 31 of this year. 139 of Hornsea Two’s 165 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 megawatt (MW) wind turbines are installed, and all of the wind farm’s inter-array cables are now in place, reports Offshorewind.biz.
In this article SRG-IT ENR-DE VOW3-DE RWE-DE Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images The CEO of German energy company RWE has called for the use of hydrogen in sectors where electrification is just not an option, telling CNBC that “in the end, all hydrogen needs to be green.” In an interview earlier
2021 was the year that warnings on climate change went into overdrive. It was the year that scientists seemed to run out of patience. And it was the year that the consequences of climate change finally, indisputably, arrived at the doorstep of the western world. By summer, the UN’s special climate panel declared global warming
The Bank of England’s interest rate hike will add to monthly mortgage payments for millions of borrowers. Industry body UK Finance estimates that 26% of home loans are on variable rates, translating to around two million. Of those, some 850,000 have tracker deals directly linked to the Bank rate, whose monthly repayments will typically rise
9:00 AM ET Hearing someone say that the NHL’s 3-on-3 overtime has gotten boring is like hearing someone say, “Hey, remember when pizza was good?” It’s pizza. Even when it’s bad, it’s good. I’ve chanted the same mantra about the 3-on-3 overtime format, which the NHL implemented in 2015 to end games before they reached
Workers at an indoor vertical farm in Las Vegas where they grow fresh produce and use 90 percent less water than a traditional farm and eventually plan to fully automate harvesting. Source: Oasis Biotech Infarm, an Amsterdam-headquartered start-up that grows food indoors in racks, has been valued at over $1 billion in a new $200 million
For established musicians of a certain age, it has been a pay-day like no other. The likes of Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon have all, during the last couple of years, sold the rights to some or all of their songs for vast sums of money. Today, according to reports, Bruce Springsteen has
The Bank of England has announced a pre-Christmas interest rate hike from 0.1% to 0.25% despite fears over the economic impact of the Omicron variant. Officials have been under pressure to act with inflation at a ten-year high but many observers still thought the Bank would hold fire as the new wave of COVID-19 cases
7:00 AM ET During the lockout, Major League Baseball personnel notably cannot speak with their major league players — not about free agency talks, rehab assignments, or spring plans. That gag order extends to the press, too — and early evidence shows that it has been effective, with some staffers mentioning fears of having their
Boris Johnson has said ministers do not “want to make your choices for you about your social life” after England’s chief medical officer advised people to prioritise events that matter to them in the run-up to Christmas. Speaking to broadcasters on Thursday, the prime minister reiterated that people should be “cautious” in the next few
Every person infected with the Omicron COVID variant is believed to be passing it on to between three and five others on average, a senior government scientist has said. Dr Susan Hopkins, the UK Health Security Agency’s chief medical adviser, told MPs on the Commons health committee that for Omicron, the R value in the
British tourists are to be banned from France amid concern over the “extremely rapid” rise in Omicron COVID cases in the UK. From Saturday morning, France is banning travel to and from the UK without “compelling reasons”. Those reasons do not include travel for tourism and business, Paris said. UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said
Mars’ huge canyon system, Valles Marineris, may hold hidden water beneath the surface, according to a new study. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos’ collbaorative ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) discovered large volumes of water in the canyon’s heart. By monitoring the hydrogen concentration in the uppermost metre of the Red Planet’s soil, TGO’s
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this week. The 46-year-old is the first self-paying tourist to visit the ISS since 2009, and it appears his vacation is worth the money spent. The views he captured from the ISS could make anyone envious. Maezawa captured the Earth in a time-lapse
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Caroline Dries, a former NYU student, shot dramatic home video of the 9/11 tragedy and shares her story with CNN.
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Protesters seen holding placards calling for a stop to the Williams natural gas pipeline (aka ‘Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) Pipeline”) during a demonstration held on Centre Street adjacent to City Hall Park in New York City. Michael Brochstein | LightRocket | Getty Images The New York City Council on Wednesday voted to pass legislation banning