LONDON (Reuters) – Opponents of a third runway at London’s Heathrow are set to hear on Thursday whether their legal appeal against the government’s decision to expand Europe’s biggest airport has been successful. FILE PHOTO: Aircraft take off at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain January 8, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls Britain has spent almost half a
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Red pandas, the bushy-tailed and russet-furred bamboo munchers that dwell in Asian high forests, are not a single species but rather two distinct ones, according to the most comprehensive genetic study to date on these endangered mammals. FILE PHOTO: A one year old Red Panda sits in the trees having only recently
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell 3% on Wednesday after hundreds of new coronavirus cases reported in Europe and the Middle East stoked fears that energy demand would decline, and on concerns that the virus would become a pandemic in the United States. FILE PHOTO: Pumpjacks are seen against the setting sun at the
OSLO (Reuters) – Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong and the NATO military alliance are among those tipped for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, following nominations by politicians. FILE PHOTO: Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the Fridays for Future protest in Hamburg, Germany February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer Also
Britain’s Prince Harry speaks during a sustainable tourism summit at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland Britain February 26, 2020. Andrew Milligan/Pool via REUTERS EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry started the last round of his royal duties on an informal note on Wednesday, making it clear the audience listening to his speech
FILE PHOTO: A PSA Group logo is seen behind a car displayed during French carmaker’s news conference as they announce the company’s 2018 results at their headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris, France, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann PARIS (Reuters) – Peugeot maker PSA Group said profitability reached fresh highs in 2019, though the French firm
LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange tried to contact Hillary Clinton and the White House when he realised that unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables given to WikiLeaks were about to be dumped on the internet, his lawyer told his London extradition hearing on Tuesday. Assange is being sought by the United States on 18 counts of hacking
URALLA, Australia (Reuters) – The one thing livestock farmer Richard Daugherty misses about the depths of one of Australia’s worst-ever droughts is that his sheep no longer run over to him, bleating to be fed. Recent deluges across the country’s east have turned Daugherty’s paddocks green for the first time in years, raising hopes the
OSLO (Reuters) – A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain’s Prince Charles. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a mountainside in 2008, was designed as
NANYUKI, Kenya/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – It’s ride-hailing, farm style. Deere & Co. (DE.N) is teaming up with the “Uber of tractors” in Africa and betting on a future where farmers summon machines with the touch of a button. David Kayi, a Hello Tractor engineer, installs an application on a John Deere 5503 tractor, using the Hello
(Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) on Tuesday largely maintained its key profit goals for the medium term, while the largest U.S. bank also raised its financial commitment for clean-energy initiatives, after years of pressure from environmental activists. FILE PHOTO: The J.P.Morgan logo is seen at Canary Wharf financial district in London, Britain, March
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday that people who had visited northern Italy should self isolate if they had any flu-like symptoms after Europe’s worst outbreak of coronavirus so far flared up in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto. “Those who have been to northern Italy – that is essentially anybody who has been
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will add exemptions to new foreign investment restrictions for companies exposed to sensitive national security issues, government sources said, in a move aimed at keeping overseas capital in the country. FILE PHOTO: A decoration for celebrating new year is seen next to a stock index board outside a brokerage in Tokyo,
FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends a news conference at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Tuesday it has agreed with other ministries including the industry ministry and finance ministry to review export conditions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth. A green seaweed fossil from China dating back
(Reuters) – Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died on Monday at the age of 101, NASA said. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama presents the
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