Tesla Gets Big Sales Boost From China
Apr.05 -- Bloomberg's Ritika Gupa discusses Tesla's big sale boost and the future of the EV space. She joins Kailey Leinz on "Bloomberg Markets."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country. The British and Indian governments said Monday that “in the light of the current coronavirus situation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be able to travel to India next week” as planned. The two governments said Johnson and Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi would speak later this month and planned to meet in person later this year.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 — The Health Ministry recorded 2,078 more Covid-19 cases today, continuing a downward trend since last Friday and bringing the cumulative number of cases detected in Malaysia...
From a small office in an Abu Dhabi skyscraper, Ukrainian national Natalya Muzaleva and her Hungarian husband Istvan Perger run an art gallery, a real estate agency and an oilfield services company. Muzaleva wrote a proposal to the Czech ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, reviewed by Reuters and dated Feb. 24, offering to procure and sell at least 1 million doses to the Czech Republic of Covishield, the shot from Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca. She said the vaccines would be supplied by an unnamed partner from AstraZeneca's "UK and India plant" and delivery would follow within 45 days of payment being received.
The low deposit mortgage scheme follows prime minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to help turn 'generation rent into generation buy' at the Conservatives’ party conference last October.
Apr.19 -- Bitcoin is paring losses from a 15% drop over the weekend, but the decline has also impacted crypto-linked stocks. Bloomberg’s Dani Burger reports.
Precautionary evacuations got underway in a Cape Town suburb on April 19 after a fire spread towards the Vredehoek area overnight, the city council said.Table Mountain National Park’s fire manager said three fires tore through the park on Sunday.One fire reached the University of Cape Town, where students were evacuated and parts of a library destroyed.This footage, posted on Monday morning, shows the fire near Vredehoek. Credit: Nadja Reinmuth via Storyful
Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds says proposals for the new European Super League seem to take an "elite approach" to football which would be terrible for the sport. She urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to speak to the 'top six' English clubs involved and encourage them to pull out of the plans for the sake of their fans.
Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds has called for full transparency throughout the review into the Greensill lobbying scandal, adding "every text message and every email" should be shared. She said the government must recognise it should not have allowed the scandal to develop.
Small changes to your wellness routine, from sustainable dental hygiene products to high-tech skin tools, can make a big difference.
Peloton founder John Foley blasts the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after releasing a terrifying new video of a child getting sucked under a Peloton treadmill.
An approaching typhoon has flooded villages in the eastern and central Philippines, where more than 68,000 people have been evacuated to safety as a precaution although the unusual summer storm may not blow inland, officials said Monday. Typhoon Surigae was about 235 kilometers (146 miles) east of eastern Catanduanes province on Monday afternoon with sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph). It is forecast to slowly move northwestward and then veer eastward away from the northern Philippines around Thursday.
Some 36% of employees in Britain did at least some work from home last year as the coronavirus pandemic closed many workplaces, a jump from around 26% in 2019, the country's statistics office said on Monday. People who worked from home were more likely to do unpaid overtime and took about half the amount of sick leave, the Office for National Statistics said. People who worked mainly from home were paid on average 9.2% more than people who never worked from home, flipping the pattern of previous years as more high-paid workers worked from home during the pandemic than before, the ONS said.
Former English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke believes the widespread opposition to the proposed European Super League will mean it never comes about.
Hugs, tears of joy and smiles all around at New Zealand airports as families and friends are reunited thanks to a travel bubble agreement between New Zealand and Australia.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 19 — Refugees and migrant workers will be included for vaccination in the third phase of the national inoculation drive, Science, Technology and Innovation minister, Khairy...
Siris Capital has submitted a non-binding proposal to buy British outsourcer Equiniti for 624.3 million pounds ($864.6 million) in cash, the U.S. equity firm said on Monday, confirming months of media speculation about a bid. Equiniti, shares of which rose by as much a fifth, said it had received a "highly conditional non-binding proposal" from Siris earlier in the day. The 170-pence-per-share bid is Siris' fifth approach to Equiniti, Sky News reported, adding its most recent attempt was in January.
Annalena Baerbock, co-leader of Germany's Greens, will run as the ecologists' candidate for chancellor at federal elections in September when the party is aiming to win the chancellery for the first time, the party said on Monday. Baerbock, 40, is a former trampolinist who is respected within her party as a serious-minded and capable politician who prefers delving into policy detail to delivering rousing rhetoric. A Greens chancellor is still only an outside chance after the Sept. 26 federal election, but the party has grown into a formidable force that is just a few points behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, who have ruled for 16 years.
About 17kg of heroin, 2kg of 'Ice' and 24kg of cannabis, along with 110 "Ecstasy" tablets were seized in a drug bust by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) last Friday (16 April).
The M&S dress swiftly sold out (we did try and warn you).
Australia plans to accelerate the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines to people over 50 after advising under-50s not to get the AstraZeneca jab due to blood clot concerns, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. State leaders agreed to bring forward vaccinating over-50s, going beyond frontline workers, the elderly, the disabled and people with underlying medical conditions, at a national cabinet meeting, with formal approval due on Thursday, Morrison said in a statement. Australia's vaccine rollout has stalled due to supply hold-ups in Europe and concerns about blood clots tied to the AstraZeneca vaccine, which Australia has banked on for most of its supply.