Solar was the fastest-growing source of electricity for the 18th consecutive year, the report said, rising by 24% year-on-year and adding enough power to meet the annual electricity demand of South Africa. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Record growth in wind and solar last year pushed worldwide electricity generation to its cleanest-ever
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In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The bitcoin halving is an event that happens roughly every four years where rewards to miners are cut in halve, effectively limiting supply of the token. S3studio | Getty Images Bitcoin is nearly a year away from a key technical event — which might be
A woman in China has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The strain does not appear to spread between people. The 56-year-old woman from the southern province of Guangdong was the third person known to have been
Dozens of Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait after China began three days of military exercises around the island. The drills are in retaliation for a meeting between the US House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan’s president. Retired Air Vice Marshal Sean Bell gives this analysis. Read
Oklahoma’s attorney general is taking steps that may stop next month’s scheduled execution of Richard Glossip, a man who has spent almost 25 years on death row and whose conviction may have resulted from another man’s lie. CNN’s Ed Lavandera reports. #CNN #News
The Ministry of Defence says there is “a serious level of inaccuracy” in leaks which claim UK special forces have been operating in Ukraine. The claims have been widely reported after US classified military documents were allegedly leaked and published online. A Ministry of Defence spokesperson has warned against taking allegations contained in the reported
Knight of the stage Sir Ian McKellen, Hi-de-Hi! star Su Pollard and TV presenter Vernon Kay were among the winners at the 2023 Pantomime Awards. Performers and others who worked on the pantomime productions of classic fairy-tales including Jack And The Beanstalk, Cinderella and Beauty And The Beast were all recognised at the annual event.
The overall supply of candidates for jobs has increased for the first time in more than two years, a survey of recruiters suggests. While the rise in the availability of workers in March was “modest”, it marks the first such upturn in the UK since February 2021, a report from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation
In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Android statue is displayed in front of a building on the Google campus on January 31, 2022 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet will report fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday after the closing bell. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google no longer
Tesla has launched its “next-gen Megapack controls platform,” which it claims enables faster deployment and commissioning of large-scale energy storage systems than its competitors. Megapack has become the go-to battery system for electric utilities looking to deploy large-scale energy storage, whether to stabilize the grid or take better advantage of renewable energy. The battery system has
My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, April 11 1. Truist Bank downgraded natural gas producer EQT Corporation (EQT) to hold from buy, while lowering its price target to $28 per share, from $41, on “potentially lower volumes.” Meanwhile, the bank raised its price target on Club holding Coterra Energy (CTRA) to $29 per share,
Police bodycam footage has shown the moment a gunman opened fire at a Louisville bank – killing five colleagues. Connor Sturgeon, 25, was shot dead by police following the attack at the Old National Bank in the Kentucky city on Monday morning. Two patrol officers who responded to the shooting were among eight wounded, with
Police are now investigating alleged sexual misconduct at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The City of London Police said its inquiries were “at a very early stage”. Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Waight said: “The City of London police takes all acts of sexual misconduct and violence against women and girls extremely seriously. “We approached
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) explains to CNN’s Anderson Cooper why she believes the Biden administration should “ignore” a ruling from a federal judge in Texas that halted the approval of abortion pill mifepristone. #CNN #News #Shorts #AOC #Texas
7:00 AM ET OXFORD, Miss. — Lane Kiffin’s coffee looks like someone shoveled dirt in a pot and set it to boil. Mysterious clumps float on top. It’s best not wondering what’s sunk to the bottom. “It’s some digestive thing that’s supposed to make you lose weight,” Kiffin says, gesturing to the Styrofoam cup atop
SNP leader Humza Yousaf has revealed the firm dealing with his party’s accounts resigned about six months ago – and implied he was not previously aware. He said Johnston Carmichael stopped doing the SNP’s accounting “round about October” of last year but he could not “comment on what was done prior to me becoming a
Joe Biden will hold a bilateral meeting with Rishi Sunak today after arriving in Northern Ireland last night to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Mr Sunak greeted Mr Biden after Air Force One landed at Belfast International Airport for the US president’s four-day visit to the island of Ireland. The two
US President Joe Biden has landed in Belfast to meet Rishi Sunak to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. The policing operation around Mr Biden’s visit on Tuesday will be the biggest in nearly a decade, at an estimated cost around £7m. Around 300 officers from other parts of the UK will
The world economy is entering a “perilous phase” of low economic growth and high financial risk, the International Monetary Fund has warned in its latest set of assessments. The IMF, which is holding its spring meetings in Washington this week, downgraded its outlook for global growth and said its medium term forecast for economic output