An employee of the ‘Total’ oil refinery stands in front of a large tank with the company’s logo in Leuna, Germany. Waltraud Grubitzsch | picture alliance via Getty Images LONDON — France’s Total on Tuesday reported a massive drop in full-year profit, following a tumultuous 12 months in which commodity prices collapsed amid the coronavirus
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UK and Irish residents returning from 33 “red list” countries will have to pay £1,750 to quarantine in hotels for 10 days, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told MPs. As part of a new quarantine system due to come into force from Monday next week, the government has booked 4,600 rooms across 16 hotels for
There is a continuous sound of heavy machinery at the mouth of the main tunnel of the Tapovan power station in India’s Uttarakhand state. Rescuers are desperately trying to reach about 35 workers trapped inside a tunnel after a glacier collapse. It has now been more than 60 hours since a Himalayan glacier broke off
It is “extremely unlikely” coronavirus came from a laboratory incident in China, according to a joint mission investigating the origins of the pandemic. Investigators believe the most likely cause of the initial outbreak was the virus jumping from an “intermediary host species” to humans. It means future investigations will not focus on a laboratory incident
Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning original member of The Supremes, has died at the age of 76. Along with Diana Ross and the late Florence Ballard, Wilson was part of the first successful configuration of the Motown group, who had hits including Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, You Can’t Hurry Love and Stop! In
There were 8,433 deaths linked to coronavirus in the final full week of January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure is up slightly from 8,422 deaths in the week to January 22. Nearly half (45.7%) of all deaths registered in England and Wales in the week to 29 January mentioned COVID-19
Having spent a “wild” year locked down in Los Angeles, British star Juno Temple is pleased to be back in Blighty and on set currently filming the second series of hit show Ted Lasso. If it’s not already on your radar, there’s a lot of love for the series, not least in the form of
It doesn’t get much starrier than playing the romantic lead in one of the world’s biggest TV shows, but after just a couple of minutes of talking to Patrick Dempsey it’s clear his feet are planted firmly on the floor. “I get it,” he tells me as my toddler comes bursting into the room just
Ocado has reported a leap in annual sales and core profitability as wider retail figures highlight the sharpest drop in business since May amid continuing coronavirus lockdowns. Ocado, best-known as an online grocer but also a provider of robotic warehouse technology, was the latest supermarket-style business to confirm a boost from its status as an
1:09 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Immediately after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 in Super Bowl LV Sunday, Bucs quarterback Tom Brady texted an apology to Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu for several on-field verbal altercations, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Brady apologized to Mathieu for losing
As Jennifer Sensiba and others have been pointing out recently, rural areas need electric vehicle charging stations too. Electrify America is stomping across the country building out a large ultrafast charging network, and it has clearly learned a great deal about these needs and the challenges serving these needs in the process. One challenge in
The United States is, once again, about to expose and interrogate the disunity that now runs through this country. The process of putting Donald Trump on trial is about to get real. First will come a debate about whether the constitution allows for such a process, bearing in mind that Mr Trump is no longer
By 2030, renewables will collectively surpass natural gas to be the predominant source of electricity generation in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2021. But that’s not enough. The EIA also projects that the share of renewables in the US electricity generation mix will double from 21% in
Wind turbines in waters off the coast of Kent, England. Chris Laurens/Construction Photography/Avalon | Hulton Archive | Getty Images The European offshore wind sector attracted over 26 billion euros (around $31.7 billion) of investment last year, a record amount, according to the latest figures from industry body WindEurope. In an announcement Monday, the Brussels-based organization
All travellers arriving in the UK are to face mandatory coronavirus tests from next week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock is poised to announce to MPs. In a Commons statement, he will say that from next Monday, 15 February, all passengers arriving in the UK will be required take a test on days two and eight
The impoverished country of Haiti – already an economic disaster zone with organised crime and kidnapping for ransom out of control – now finds itself in the midst of a constitutional crisis with violent confrontations between anti-government protesters and the police a daily occurrence. The country’s leading opposition parties, the judiciary and activist groups say
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