CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from U.S. soil. The SpaceX Crew Dragon sits atop a Falcon 9 booster rocket on
FILE PHOTO: James P. Gorman, chairman & CEO of Morgan Stanley, testifies before a House Financial Services Committeeon Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2019. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley (MS.N) said on Friday that its board lowered Chief Executive Officer James Gorman’s total compensation for 2019 to $27
FILE PHOTO: A sign marks a Best Buy store in Salem, New Hampshire, U.S., November 25, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (Reuters) – U.S. consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co (BBY.N) said on Friday that its board was conducting an independent review on allegations of misconduct against Chief Executive Officer Corie Barry after receiving an anonymous letter.
FILE PHOTO: British Union Jack flag flies in front of the clock face of Big Ben in London, Britain August 29, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street residence will be lit up with a countdown to Britain’s exit from the European Union on Jan. 31, as part of a
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will not automatically deport European Union citizens who have not applied for the right to remain in the country after Brexit, European Parliament Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Guy Verhofstadt, the EU Parliament’s Brexit steering group coordinator, speaks during a debate on Brexit at the European Parliament
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Temasek Holdings and Trustbridge Partners have held talks with WeWork China over increasing their stake in the China branch of the troubled co-working startup to take majority ownership, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People are seen outside the building of Wework’s co-working space during the National
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will impose more curbs on agriculture and widen restrictions on industrial development in the next five years in a bid to protect scarce, already contaminated water supplies from further pollution, a government official said on Friday. FILE PHOTO – A farmer works on a polluted river in Shanghai, China, March 21,
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Britain’s 73 EU lawmakers packed up their offices in Strasbourg on Thursday: for some a moment of triumph, for others, disaster. FILE PHOTO: A British Union Jack flag is seen on the desk of Nigel Farage (not pictured), leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and Member of the European Parliament,
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labor and automotive content but leaves $1.2 trillion in annual U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged. FILE PHOTO: Flags of the U.S., Canada and Mexico fly next to each other in Detroit,
FILE PHOTO: A tugboat passes the midtown Manhattan skyline on the Hudson River in the early morning in New York City, New York U.S., November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar (Reuters) – New York and Connecticut sued the Trump administration on Thursday, alleging it has failed to enforce the U.S. Clean Air Act and allowed five
FILE PHOTO: Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, speaks at a Bank of England Financial Stability Report news conference in London, Britain December 16, 2019. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Outgoing Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will advise Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the run-up to a major United
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China will boost purchases of U.S. goods and services by $200 billion over two years in exchange for the rolling back of some tariffs under an initial trade deal signed by the world’s two largest economies, defusing an 18-month row that has hit global growth. Key world stock market indexes climbed to
A man catches fish as the Taal Volcano erupts in the background in Talisay, Batangas, Philippines, January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippine volcano that has been spewing ash for days appeared to be calming down on Thursday, but seismologists said the danger of an eruption remained high and authorities warned evacuees
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry will make his first public appearance on Thursday since Queen Elizabeth acceded to the wishes of her grandson and his American wife Meghan to step back from their senior royal roles and seek a more independent future. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A microorganism scooped up in deep-sea mud off Japan’s coast has helped scientists unlock the mystery of one of the watershed evolutionary events for life on Earth: the transition from the simple cells that first colonized the planet to complex cellular life – fungi, plants and animals including people. A scanning electron
FILE PHOTO: China’s President Xi Jinping speaks with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, December 23, 2019. Noel Celis/Pool via REUTERS BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump in a letter that he welcomes the Phase
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