An electric compact excavator was airlifted to a summit in the Swiss Alps to help rebuild one of the world’s most iconic cable car routes – because diesel machines aren’t up to the job. Volvo Construction Equipment’s ECR25 Electric compact excavator is being used on a 100 million Swiss Franc project to build a new cableway from
Electric vehicles from Tesla photographed in China. The world’s second largest economy is a major player when it comes to the sale of electric vehicles. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Electric car sales jumped to more than 10 million last year, with China accounting for roughly 60% of the market, according to
An “emergency meeting” of the Scottish National Party has taken place after the party’s treasurer Colin Beattie was detained by police investigating the party’s finances. This is the second high-profile arrest over the party’s funding probe, after Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell, the SNP’s former chief executive, was detained by police. Anas Sarwar, the leader
Rep. Justin Jones, one of two newly-reinstated Democrats in the Tennessee House of Representatives after being expelled for protesting against gun violence on the House floor, shares why he carried a fake, infant-sized coffin into the state capitol upon his return. Fellow state lawmakers Reps. Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson join the discussion on gun
Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg has said he regrets editing guns out of his classic 1980s movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The 1982 theatrical cut includes a scene where police officers chase young children while holding firearms. Spielberg edited the guns out of the 20th anniversary release of the film and replaced them with walkie talkies. “That
Many people are arriving in Cyprus utterly traumatised and too upset to talk about what they’ve been through to get here. We watched a hundred or so, slowly walk down the ramp off the back of an RAF Hercules aircraft into the Mediterranean sun on this holiday island. What a culture shock that must be.
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Wednesday began laying off some employees in its cloud computing and human resources divisions. Amazon Web Services CEO
Prince Harry’s legal team have listed 208 articles about him in The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World which his lawyers claim were as a result of private information being unlawfully gathered. The stories’ headlines and reporters’ names were included in court documents as part of a legal action by the Duke of
Disney has filed a lawsuit in a bid to stop Florida governor Ron DeSantis exerting control over the company’s theme parks in Orlando. The row stems from a Republican backlash last year after Disney openly criticised a state law banning classroom discussion of sexuality and gender identity in schools. There has since been a fierce
A dangerous craze where children are filmed being attacked by other kids at school could lead to a child being killed. That’s the warning from the half-brother of a 13-year-old girl who was dragged to the ground by her hair and kicked in the head by other youngsters. The victim was just leaving for home
The behaviour of people arriving in the UK on small boats is “at odds with British values”, the home secretary has claimed. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Suella Braverman said people making the dangerous Channel crossing – who include asylum seekers – were “behaving unacceptably” by “breaking our rules” and “abusing the generosity of the
7:51 AM ET Gervonta Davis defeated Ryan Garcia in one of the most anticipated fights in boxing this year, a seventh-round KO at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was contested at a catchweight of 136 pounds, but Davis showed he’s going to be trouble for anybody at 135 and 140 pounds. But was
Tesla announces a successful step in a pilot project to deploy Powerwalls with German electric company Transnet BW to stabilize the grid and take better advantage of the country’s strong solar power. Over the last few years, we have seen virtual power plant projects become increasingly popular thanks to the advent of distributed energy assets
The Club held its “Monthly Meeting” for April on Tuesday, providing a window into our current thinking on the stocks in Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust — including an updated list of the 10 core holdings in the portfolio. Those 10 companies, which we generally view as the best in their respective industries, are Apple (AAPL),
The British competition watchdog has blocked Microsoft’s bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped the $68.7bn (£55bn) deal due to concerns that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. In its final report on Wednesday, the CMA said that the move was “the only effective
Japan’s ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpectedly accelerated and probably crashed on the lunar surface. The startup said it was possible that as the lander approached the moon, its altitude measurement system had miscalculated the distance
A zero-emissions parcel delivery firm whose clients include ASOS is raising £10m as it tries to take on the industry’s biggest operators. Sky News understands that HIVED, which was founded two years ago by Murvah Iqbal and Mathias Krieger, has secured the Series A funding from investors led by Planet A Ventures. HIVED operates an
China will start building relay satellites that by 2030 will act as a communication bridge between missions to the moon and beyond, and ground operations on Earth, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday. A pilot of the satellite constellation will support China’s ongoing lunar exploration programme and the building of the International Lunar Research Station
The number of victims of a suspected starvation cult has risen to at least 89 after more bodies were dug up in a Kenyan forest. Most of the dead were found in shallow single and mass graves, while a few were found emaciated but later died. There are fears the death toll could rise further
A man has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for assisting Thomas Cashman, the gunman who murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Paul Russell, 41, pleaded guilty after driving Cashman back to his van following the killing and disposing of a bag that’s believed to have contained his clothes. The judge gave Russell credit for going