BOGOTA (Reuters) – Residents of Colombia’s capital Bogota took to bicycles, scooters, buses and taxis for their Thursday commutes, as the city banned private cars in a bid to boost greener transport. Cyclists ride their bicycles during “No Car Day” in Bogota, Colombia February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Oliver Griffin The city’s car and motorcycle-free day is
LONDON (Reuters) – An estimated 500,000 European Union nationals in Britain have yet to apply for a new immigration status, which most will need to remain in the country after Brexit. FILE PHOTO: UK Border control is seen in Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London June 4, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall The government is introducing
On January 31, 2020, President Donald J. Trump announced new countries will be added to a travel ban originally enacted by the United States government in a 2017 executive order. Six new countries will be added to the travel travel ban, including Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria. While the U.S. moves to tighten restrictions against
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday after a record stay on the International Space Station, ending a 328-day mission expected to yield new insights into deep-space travel. FILE PHOTO: The International Space Station (ISS) crew member Christina Koch of the U.S.
FILE PHOTO: The International Space Station (ISS) crew member Christina Koch of the U.S. gestures after donning space suits shortly before their launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (Reuters) – A capsule carrying a crew of three from the International Space Station, including record-setting United States astronaut Christina Koch, landed
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Sanofi is pictured during the company’s shareholders meeting in Paris, France, April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) – Sanofi (SASY.PA) on Thursday said it was expecting earnings per share to grow around 5 percent at constant exchange rates in 2020, weeks after pledging to focus on vaccines and
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, was due to return to Earth on Thursday after a record stay aboard the International Space Station, capping a busy mission that could yield key insights into deep-space travel. FILE PHOTO: The International Space Station (ISS) crew member Christina Koch
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bushfires on Thursday, with heavy rain deluging many areas and a tropical cyclone forecast to hit the country’s northwest over the weekend. The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe thunderstorm warnings for the southeast Queensland state, while parts of New South Wales
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading a multistate investigation into Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google unit, said on Wednesday he has not taken any possible punishment off the table, including breaking up the search and advertising giant. FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland, December
FILE PHOTO: Ford logo is pictured at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said Wednesday Canadian officials have opened a preliminary investigation into the automaker’s emissions certification process. Ford said in its annual report Environment and Climate Change Canada has
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to pass emergency legislation by Feb. 27 to prevent convicted terrorists automatically being released from prison half-way through their sentence, a government source said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: A police officer is seen near a site where a man was shot by armed officers in Streatham, south London, Britain, February
BEIJING (Reuters) – Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China’s Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73% of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirmed infections. FILE PHOTO: Funeral parlour staff members in protective suits help a colleague with disinfection after they transferred a body at a hospital, following
MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s Siemens (SIEGn.DE) on Wednesday reported weaker-than-expected industrial profit during its first quarter as a downturn in the manufacturing sector hit its flagship digital industries business and its wind power unit suffered losses. FILE PHOTO: The logo of German industrial group Siemens is seen in Zurich, Switzerland, January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – An iguana-like creature with a needle-sharp snout has been confirmed from a fossilized skeleton as a species of the marine reptile thalattosaur previously unknown to science that roamed the coast of what is now Alaska some 200 million years ago. Dating from the Triassic period and identified from a lone fossil
FILE PHOTO: Switzerland’s national flag flies below a logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse at its headquarters at the Paradeplatz square in Zurich, July 31, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann ZURICH (Reuters) – Credit Suisse (CSGN.S), which has faced a scandal related to spying on senior executives, also conducted espionage against Greenpeace, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported. Then-Chief
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Ride-hailing company Beat hopes rival Uber (UBER.N) will return to Colombia, but meanwhile, it will capitalize on the void it left and try to fill it, the company said. Mauricio Lopez, General Manager of Beat in Colombia, poses for a picture in Bogota, Colombia February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020.
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