China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. The Chang’e-5 probe, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to collect material that can help scientists
Month: November 2020
7:17 PM ET LONDON — Daniil Medvedev winning the season-ending ATP Finals over Dominic Thiem on Sunday was a fitting end to tennis’ year in which very little went to script and the unexpected seemed to occur on a tournament-by-tournament basis. While Thiem, who had already won his first Grand Slam at the US Open
Almost half of the UK’s manufacturers are unhappy with the government’s efforts to “level-up” the country. “Levelling up” is the phrase used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to describe the government’s efforts to reverse regional inequalities. But some 42% of manufacturers say that these efforts are not enough and that regional industrial strategies need to
Americans could start receiving a COVID-19 vaccine as early as 11 December, according to the chief scientific adviser for the US government’s vaccine programme. Dr Moncef Slaoui, part of Operation Warp Speed, told NBC: “Within 24 hours from the approval, the vaccine will be moving and located in the areas where each state will have
Contacts of those who are diagnosed with COVID-19 may no longer have to isolate under new plans announced by the government. Currently, a person must isolate for 14 days if they have been a close contact with someone who has tested positive to the virus. But under the new plans, they would instead have the
November 22nd, 2020 by Johnna Crider Goldman Sachs, which has reportedly made $100 million off of Tesla trades this year, has pointed out that Tesla’s S&P 500 entry could “spark an $8 billion buying spree. Back in September, the International Financing Review (IFR) noted that Goldman Sachs made $100 million from its series of trades
Boris Johnson was probably right to kick off a much needed conversation about devolution of power last week, even if the manner of doing so – saying it had been a disaster in Scotland – was for many Tories the kind of quip the head-exploding emoji 🤯 was invented for. In fairness to the PM,
1:07 PM ET Another celebrity golf match is set this week, though for the first time in this series it will be without Tiger Woods. Worried it will lack drama? Insert Charles Barkley, whose golf swing is, uh, interesting. (That’s being nice.) On Friday, he will team up with Phil Mickelson against three-time NBA champion
KYMCO has a big digital press conference planned for this Thursday, November 26th. And it appears that one of the major unveilings will be a new electric motorcycle known as the KYMCO F9. We only have a few brief shots of the new bike, which is visible in a short 18-second teaser video shown below.
There is a civil war in Ethiopia that is being fought largely in the shadows. The country’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed and his government have imposed a full blackout as they seek to defeat the leadership of the region of Tigray. The phone lines have been cut and the internet is switched off. The banks
A former chairman of Centrica is being lined up to lead the AA by the consortium which hopes to agree a £3bn takeover of Britain’s biggest roadside recovery service this week. Sky News has learnt that Rick Haythornthwaite has been approached by Towerbrook Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus about chairing the AA if their joint
Donald Trump has defended pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement, saying it was “designed to kill the American economy” and that he acted to save “millions” of jobs. The US president announced his nation’s withdrawal from the accord in June 2017, claiming it was “punishing” America’s coal industry and risking countless jobs. The
Thousands have attended the funeral of the Serbian Orthodox Church leader, who died from COVID-19 just weeks after leading the open-casket service of a bishop also killed by the virus. Despite the pandemic, many mourners attending the ceremony in Belgrade for Patriarch Irinej did not wear masks or respect social distancing and kissed the glass
The search for two people who are missing after a fishing boat sank off the coast of East Sussex resumed on Sunday morning. Two RNLI lifeboats and a helicopter were sent out on Saturday after the Joanna C sent out a distress signal at around 6am. One man was found clinging to a lifebuoy and
Rishi Sunak has insisted there will be no return to austerity in his spending review next week. Faced with the job of balancing the UK’s books in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic the chancellor told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “You will not see austerity next week. “What you will see is an increase
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