Online comments made by Harry Potter author JK Rowling have not been recorded as a non-crime hate incident, Police Scotland has confirmed. It comes after the force said no further action would be taken over social media posts made by the writer in response to Scotland’s controversial new hate crime laws. A non-crime hate incident
The price of oil has climbed following a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s third-largest refinery. The attack on the Taneco facility, in the province of Tatarstan, appears to have been Kyiv’s deepest strike inside Russian territory since the invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago. The strike on Tuesday started a fire which took
The moon will get its own time zone after the White House directed NASA to develop a unified lunar time standard by the end of 2026. The Coordinated Lunar Time, or LTC, would provide a time-keeping benchmark for lunar spacecraft and satellites that will require extreme precision for their missions. Having a standard lunar time
Visitors will be able to tour parts of Balmoral Castle used by the Royal Family for the first time this summer. Balmoral Castle, set in the Scottish highlands, is widely believed to have been Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite residence and is where she spent most of her summers. Guided “castle interior tours”, which will take
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Associated Press Apr 2, 2024, 07:17 PM ET DALLAS — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was leasing a Lamborghini sport utility vehicle that authorities say was one of two speeding sports cars that caused a chain reaction crash on a Dallas highway, an attorney for the company that owns the vehicle said Tuesday.
It’s a war they didn’t sign up for. Several Indian men allege they have been forced into fighting for the Russian military in Ukraine. Thousands of miles away in their village of Mator in Haryana, their families spoke to Sky News about their loved ones caught up in a war zone. Sky News was shown
In this article INTC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT U.S. President Joe Biden tours the Intel Ocotillo Campus, in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., March 20, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Intel shares fell 4% at one point in extended trading on Tuesday after the company revealed long-awaited financials for its semiconductor manufacturing business, commonly called
Photo: Subaru Subaru just announced that it’s leasing its 2023 Solterra Premium for zero down, $241 per month for 36 months, plus tax and license. That’s a $158 reduction from the $399 per month deal that Subaru has been running on the 2023 Solterra since last year, making it one of the least expensive passenger
Tesla has officially regained the BEV global volume leader crown from BYD in the first quarter despite a tough one. Could it point to issues in the Chinese EV market? Tesla has always been a pure electric, battery-electric (BEV), vehicle manufacturer, while most other automakers, including BYD, have dabbled with hybrids, plug-in or others. BYD’s
Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 just set a new March and Q1 sales record as EV sales climbed 100% last month. The company had its best-ever first quarter and March sales as demand for its EVs remains high. Hyundai IONIQ 5 EV sets new March, Q1 US sales record Hyundai continues building momentum in the US with
Tesla has released its Q1 2024 delivery and production numbers: confirming the suspicion that it is not growing anymore. It’s even worse than most people anticipated. Tesla Q1 2024 Expectations As we have been reporting in the last few weeks, the expectations for Tesla’s Q1 2024 deliveries are all over the place. Last month, the
Source: Xiaomi Weibo account Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi seems to have hit the ball out of the park with the launch of its debut EV, the SU7, last week. The launch has pushed its market value up by $4 million, with the company now nearing valuations higher than GM and Ford. Reuters reports this morning
Believe it or not, there’s nothing new about major automakers and motorcycle companies trying and failing to build and sell electric bicycles. Despite millions upon millions of e-bikes being produced and sold each year by bicycle companies, automotive companies have spent decades failing to convert their design and manufacturing experience into e-bike success. It might
BurnBot RX burns unwanted vegetation without emitting plumes of smoke. Lora Kolodny for CNBC Last year’s record heat wave worsened drought and dry conditions across the globe, a particularly calamitous situation for California, which has seen 13 of the state’s 20 most destructive wildfires in history break out since 2017. In South San Francisco, a
England saw a record amount of rainfall in the year and a half leading up to last month, new figures show. According to provisional figures from the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024. This is the highest amount of rain for any 18-month period in England since the organisation
A bitcoin is on a screen showing the Bitcoin-U.S. dollar exchange rate. Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez | picture alliance | Getty Images Bitcoin fell for a second day to start the new month and quarter, amid rising Treasury yields and strength in the U.S. dollar. The flagship cryptocurrency fell more than 6% on Tuesday to $65,150.00, bringing its
A flare stack burns beyond oil storage tanks at the Taneco Oil Refining and Petrochemical complex, operated by Tatneft PJSC, in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia, on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil prices on Tuesday rose to their highest level since October as investors closely monitored fresh supply threats amid an
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla’s new Model 3 sedans wait to be shipped aboard at Shanghai Haitong International Automotive Terminal in Shanghai, China, on March 14, 2024. VCG | Getty Images Tesla just published its first-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report for 2024. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q1 2024: 386,810Total
The new chief executive of beleaguered Dutch football club Ajax is facing the sack for alleged insider trading. Officials said they intended to fire Alex Kroes after it emerged he bought more than 17,000 shares in the club just a week before his appointment to the role was announced last August. “The supervisory board sought