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Biden bans new drilling in US coastal waters weeks before Trump handover
Joe Biden has banned offshore drilling across an immense area of coastal waters, weeks before Donald Trump takes office pledging to massively increase fossil fuel production.
The US president’s ban encompasses the entire Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Pacific coast off California, Oregon and …
‘They wanted a host without much personality’: Evan Davis and Peter Jones on Dragons’ Den
Peter Jones, Dragon
I was running a fairly successful telecoms business and had a phone call from the BBC saying that they’d like to come and chat. I was intrigued enough to say yes. I was late for our meeting and while he was waiting for me, Martyn Smith, the …
‘Virtual employees’ could join workforce as soon as this year, OpenAI boss says
Virtual employees could join workforces this year and transform how companies work, according to the chief executive of OpenAI.
The first artificial intelligence agents may start working for organisations this year, wrote Sam Altman, as AI firms push for uses that generate returns on substantial investment in the technology.
Microsoft, …
Austria’s far-right Freedom party tasked with forming coalition government
Austria’s president has tasked the anti-migration, pro-Kremlin Freedom party (FPÖ) with holding talks to form a ruling coalition, potentially paving the way for the far right to lead the government for the first time since the second world war.
After meeting the FPÖ leader, Herbert Kickl, at the Hofburg palace …
Charlie Hebdo marks 10 years after terror attack with special issue
Ten years on from the Islamist terrorist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France will ask: “Are we all still Charlie?”
The #JeSuisCharlie hashtag spread around the world in January 2015 after brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi stormed the paper’s offices killing 11 people in retaliation for it printing …
Regulator forces HS1 rail line to cut charges in push to open up route to Eurostar rivals
The High Speed 1 line that carries Eurostar trains from London to the Channel tunnel has been forced by the regulator to cut the prices it charges rail companies in a push to open up the route to more operators.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said it hoped …
Canada PM Justin Trudeau could resign as early as Monday, sources say
Justin Trudeau could announce his resignation as early as Monday, two leading Canadian newspapers have reported, after a snowballing leadership crisis that has caused the prime minister to lose support within his party.
as saying that Trudeau, 53, would …Aldi celebrates ‘best Christmas ever’ with sales of £1.6bn
Aldi has reported its “best Christmas ever” after Britain’s fourth-biggest grocer said it made sales of more than £1.6bn in the four weeks to Christmas Eve, thanks in part to shoppers trading up to its premium range.
The supermarket chain said total sales for the crucial holiday period increased by …
UK firms plan price rises as confidence falls to lowest level since Truss budget
More than half of British companies are planning price rises in the next three months, according to research that found UK business confidence has slumped to its lowest since the chaos of
Liz Truss’s brief stint as prime minister
.Of 4,800 businesses polled by the British Chambers …
The NFL’s bogus playoff seeding system penalizes the more deserving
The injustice of the NFL’s playoff seeding system rears its ugly head once again
Now that we know how the 2024 NFL playoffs are seeded from top to bottom, it’s time once again to complain about the league’s ugly secret: Its system for awarding playoff position, and thus which teams …