U.S. crude oil futures slipped to $77 per barrel on Tuesday, after surging in the previous session on OPEC member Libya halting production and exports. Libya produces about 1.2 million barrels per day with the overwhelming majority of its crude exported to the global market, with European nations serving as the main buyers. U.S. oil
Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterAug 27, 2024, 12:04 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions David Nucifora has joined Scottish Rugby in an advisory capacity. Harry Murphy/Sportsfile via Getty Images Scottish Rugby
While it might seem like humans and animals consume most of the world’s water, heavy industry uses up to half of it. That’s why business sectors are looking for new ways to recycle water, especially in the face of increased drought. Some of the world’s most essential industries, like pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, textiles, mining,
Cast your mind back to the heady days of early July, as a beaming Sir Keir Starmer swept into Downing Street to a cheering crowd and the promise of “change”. Britain’s seventh ever Labour prime minister had won a landslide that deservedly drew parallels between himself and the party’s most successful election winner Tony Blair.
The Paris Paralympics opening ceremony kicks off on Wednesday night, with thousands of athletes taking part in a parade through the French capital’s iconic landmarks. An estimated 65,000 spectators will be watching the athletes from more than 180 countries march along the Champs-Elysees to Place de la Concorde before the competitions start on Thursday. It
One in two LGBT+ employees are facing “shockingly high levels” of bullying and harassment at work, a survey has found. A survey of 1,000 LGBT+ people by the TUC suggested one in five lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people had been exposed to verbal abuse at work in the last five years. More than a
Thousands of Next workers have won an equal pay claim against their employer. An employment tribunal said the mostly female sales consultant floor staff should not be paid less than warehouse staff, the majority of whom are male. It’s the result of a more than six-year legal battle involving 3,540 claimants working at the high
Physicists have recently observed an unexpected phenomenon in a superconducting material, potentially pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in this field. The discovery centres on a material typically known as an electrical insulator. In this insulator, researchers found that electrons could pair up at temperatures as high as minus 123 degrees Celsius (minus 190 degrees
The launch of SpaceX’s four-person Polaris Dawn mission will be delayed by at least a day because of a helium leak in ground equipment at Kennedy Space Center, the company said on Tuesday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of its Crew Dragon capsule. The highlight of the five-day mission is expected to come two days
Commercial leasing company Volt Mobility boasts clients that include UPS, DHL, and FedEx. And now, they’ll be able to boast about having one of the largest electric vehicle fleets in the world – because they just ordered 3,000 electric trucks from Mullen. Volt Mobility placed a $210 million order for 3,000 class 1 and class 3
Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images PetroChina Co. posted record operating profits for the first half of the year on the back of strong drilling output and higher oil prices, which allowed it to offset weak fuel demand in China. China’s largest oil and gas company posted a net income of 88.61 billion yuan
Oasis have confirmed it’s happening – Noel and Liam Gallagher are reuniting, with shows planned for 2025. The announcement comes just ahead of the 30th anniversary of Oasis‘s seminal debut album Definitely Maybe, released on 29 August 1994, and 15 years since the last time the brothers performed together before their infamous fall-out. Both Noel
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a press conference following a cabinet shuffle, at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 26, 2023. Blair Gable | Reuters Canada said on Monday it would impose 100% import tariffs on China-made electric vehicles, following in the footsteps of the U.S. and the European Union in slapping
Israel’s military says it has rescued a hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October. Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, is in a stable medical condition and is being transferred for medical checks at a hospital, the IDF said, following a “complex operation” in southern Gaza. The Hostages Families Forum said in a statement his
Eyewitness: The time for answers will come, but help is more urgent By Matthew Thompson, home and political correspondent, reporting from Dagenham for Sky News As we arrived first thing this morning, the fire was smouldering, but it was a mere shadow of the inferno that had engulfed the building a few hours before. Many
Associated Press Aug 26, 2024, 04:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NASCAR will take its elite Cup Series international for the first points-paying race outside the United States with a June 2025 stop in Mexico City. The Cup Series will race at storied Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, where NASCAR and track officials have a Tuesday morning
Sir Keir Starmer will vow on Tuesday to “reverse a decade of decline” and to “fix the foundations” of the UK economy. Delivering a much-trailed speech in the gardens of Downing Street ahead of parliament’s return next week, the prime minister will acknowledge the state of the public finances but pledge to “do the hard
Donald Trump has suggested he might back out of a scheduled debate with rival presidential hopeful Kamala Harris – as he says the network it is scheduled to be on is “hostile” to Republicans. Speaking inside a Vietnamese restaurant in Virginia, Trump said he watched ABC’s This Week on Sunday and did not like how
A man who believed he was being cut out of his mother’s will and did not want to move out of her home, has shot dead four members of his own family before taking his own life, police in the US have said. Joseph DeLucia Jr killed his three siblings, Joanne Kearns, Frank DeLucia and
Photo: Carrier HVAC Wondering whether a heat pump would be right for your home? The folks at heat pump installers BOXT answer the most Googled questions. Electrek heard from Andy Pattison, head of renewables at BOXT, who answered four of the most frequently asked questions about heat pumps on Google: What is a heat pump?
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