The chief fire officer at West Midlands Fire Service has been found dead at his home amid claims made about his qualifications for the role made on social media. In a statement from Greg Brackenridge, chairman of West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority, said: “We are devastated to report that our chief fire officer, Wayne
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the CES conference in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft’s market cap surpassed $3 trillion in intraday trading Wednesday after the stock climbed more than 1% to $404 per share.
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc and X (formerly Twitter) Ceo speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), on December 15, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Antonio Masiello | Getty Images Tesla is set to report fourth-quarter earnings
A money launderer who worked for people smuggling networks involved in small boat crossings has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Asghar Gheshalghian, 48, who is originally from Iran, ran an unregistered money transfer business from an office block in Wood Green, north London. Over a period of nearly five years, he acted as
Oil field workers on a rig in Tioga, North Dakota. Ken Cedeno | Corbis | Getty Images Oil prices edged lower Wednesday as U.S. gasoline stocks rose significantly, suggesting demand might be faltering in the world’s largest economy. The West Texas Intermediate futures contract for March fell 18 cents, or .24%, to $74.19 a barrel
Tesla’s next-gen electric cars, including the long-awaited “$25,000 model”, are coming in 2025, according to a new report based on sources from the automaker’s supply chain. With a plan to build 20 million vehicles per year by the end of the decade, Tesla is going to need to expand its vehicle lineup quickly. It needs
Budding EV charging developer FreeWire Technologies gained a significant player in the automotive industry to help get its turnkey charging solutions out to more customers. Today, FreeWire shared that it has partnered with GM Energy to help deploy the former’s ultra-fast EV chargers to commercial and fleet customers in the US. Although we’ve only been
Logo for ZEE5, an over-the-top platform of Zee Entertainment Enterprises. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Indian entertainment conglomerate Zee Entertainment on Wednesday said it urged Sony to revive their blockbuster entertainment merger and has sued the Japanese tech giant over the deal’s termination. Sony earlier this week called of the transaction with Zee Entertainment,
First-time mothers battling apocalyptic flooding – it’s a storyline we’d like to confine to the realms of fantasy drama – but the author of The End We Start From says it’s a case of fiction becoming reality. Megan Hunter tells Sky News: “It was the dystopian future novel. But now when people talk about the
A nose wheel fell off a Boeing 757 jet that was taxiing on the runway with 184 passengers on board at Atlanta’s international airport. The wheel “came off and rolled down the hill” as the Delta Air Lines flight was waiting to take off, according to a report from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A spokesperson
Lee Anderson has said he regrets not voting for the Rwanda bill and would take back his old job as deputy Tory party chairman if asked. The outspoken MP told The Telegraph he should have been “brave” and sided with Rishi Sunak instead of abstaining. His plan had actually been to vote down the bill
In this article SPOT AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Daniel Ek, CEO of Swedish music streaming service Spotify, gestures as he makes a speech at a press conference in Tokyo on September 29, 2016. Toru Yamanaka | AFP | Getty Images Spotify said Wednesday it will update its iPhone app in Europe to
Almost 10 million people in England do not have access to NHS ear wax removal services, in what a hearing loss charity has called a “postcode lottery” of care for patients. Charity RNID – which supports people who are deaf and with hearing difficulties in the UK – says people are being forced to pay
It was Trump’s night, no question. New Hampshire delivered numbers that cement his position as the Republican nominee in waiting and tighten his grip on the party. This primary race has been coloured all shades of anti-Trump, strategies from attack to appeasement, but he remains seemingly untouchable. He has consolidated and grown support in a
eBay’s headquarters in San Jose, California, U.S. Bloomberg | Getty Images eBay said Tuesday that it plans to lay off 9% of the company’s workforce, equating to 1,000 full-time employees Jamie Iannone, the president and CEO of eBay, detailed the layoffs on Tuesday in a letter to employees that was published on a corporate blog,
Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire. The result is a setback for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley who invested significant time and financial resources into winning the state. She is the last major challenger in the race after Florida governor Ron DeSantis ended his presidential bid over the weekend. Ms
BMW’s 5 series is set to expand very soon. The automaker is teasing the new BMW i5 M60 Touring, giving us a sneak peek at what we can expect from the high-performance EV. BMW teases new i5 M60 Touring EV After teasing an electric 5 series sedan for over six years, BMW finally unveiled the
England spinner Shoaib Bashir has been forced to fly home to resolve Indian visa complications – an issue Ben Stokes has described as “frustrating”. Bashir, a 20-year-old British Muslim of Pakistani heritage, was the only member of the touring party to have a significant delay over his application and was forced to stay in Abu
The chief executive of an American airline company has said internal checks found “many” loose bolts on their Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes. Ben Minicucci, the head of Alaska Airlines, told Sky News’s US partner network NBC News that he was “angry” about an incident on 5 January when a panel on one of the
Project Titan, the Apple electric car project, has been underway since 2015. But the project has faced numerous delays and repeated executive turnover. Initially planning to make a fully autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, those lofty ambitions have come crashing down to earth in recent years. With Apple VP Kevin Lynch leading the project