An 82-year-old man has suffered severe burns after being set on fire outside a mosque. The pensioner was seen having a conversation with a male as they both left the West London Islamic Centre in Ealing, west London, around 8pm on 27 January. They spoke for around five minutes before the man doused the victim
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Elon Musk has made no secret of his desire to colonise Mars, but seemingly not before he’s had a go at running his own community here on Earth. The SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter owner wants to build a “utopia” called Snailbrook for his workers to live in Texas, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). It
6:08 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray remained unbeaten this season in matches that go to a deciding third or fifth set by coming back to beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4 across more than three hours in the first round of the BNP Paribas
3:00 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Former player and current ESPN analyst Patrick McEnroe will be the new president of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and USTA Foundation chief executive Dan Faber was chosen as the Hall’s new CEO. McEnroe and Faber will begin their roles on May 1, it was announced
Donald Trump has been invited to testify before a New York grand jury next week as part of an investigation into hush money payments made on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign. Joseph Tacopina, a lawyer for the former president, confirmed the news, telling the Associated Press: “To me, it’s much ado about nothing.”
Safra Catz, Oracle’s CEO and then one of Oracle’s two co-CEOs, smiles during Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on, Sept. 20, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle shares dropped nearly 5% after the enterprise tech giant reported its financial results for its 2023 fiscal third quarter. Here’s how the company
Nissan is doubling down on its new efforts to boost electric vehicle production. The automaker says under its new EV powertrain approach, development and manufacturing costs will be reduced by 30% by 2026. Despite Nissan’s early lead in the pure battery electric vehicle market with the release of the LEAF in 2011, the Japanese automaker
Tesla announced today that its new Model S vehicles come with a new “high-visibility glass roof” following a slight refresh. There has been sort of a stealth refresh of the Model S and Model X. The main reason appears to be the integration of Tesla’s Hardware 4.0 Autopilot and Self-Driving sensors and computer, but the
Ford is building electric school buses; you heard that right. The automaker is offering a Type A electric school bus package based on its top-selling E-Transit commercial van. Ford introduces an electric Type A school bus The E-Transit was first introduced by Ford back in 2020 as an all-electric smart workhorse version of its best-selling
A gunman believed to have been acting alone has killed several people in a Jehovah’s Witness building in the German city of Hamburg, police have said. Shots were fired at the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall in the Gross Borstel district, with police alerted at around 9.15pm on Thursday. Police have not confirmed how many people
Tesla has decided to install a “dummy” camera in its new vehicles equipped with its Hardware 4.0 Autopilot/Self-Driving sensors. Hardware 4.0 is Tesla’s latest suite of sensors and computer that powers its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving package features. We have been gradually learning more about the new sensors and computer over the last few months.
11:53 AM ET Iowa‘s athletics department will pay the entire settlement of more than $4 million to a group of Black former football players who sued the university for alleged racial discrimination. University president Barbara Wilson on Thursday said the athletic department will reimburse $2 million to the state’s general fund for the settlement. Iowa’s
I met Larysa standing on broken glass outside her Kyiv apartment block trying to convince two council workmen to come up to her flat and mend her shattered windows. Only hours earlier she had been shaken to the core by a huge explosion in the residential complex car park three floors beneath her. She invited
King Charles has embraced a 17th-century tradition to mark his reign in which some of the nation’s leading institutions reaffirmed their loyalty to the monarch – while reflecting on the “profound loss” of his late mother. The monarch received the “privileged bodies”, comprising a group of 27 organisations and corporations, all of which presented loyal
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chesnot | Getty Images Apple announced Thursday that it will launch a standalone app called Apple Music Classical, which will be available at no added cost to existing Apple Music subscribers, on March 28. Apple said the catalog will include over five million unique tracks
One in four GPs say their practices may not survive due to “insurmountable pressures”, a new report has found. The report from the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) warned that doctors are bracing for “winter-style pressures” well into the summer and said the NHS “will not survive” without general practice. In a survey of 2,649
A senior Nigerian politician tried to bring a street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney because it was “far better to buy one” than find a family member to donate the organ, a court has heard. Prosecutor Hugh Davies KC has accused Ike Ekweremadu, an opposition senator in Nigeria who has an address
Mark Boggett from Seraphim Space discusses why Britain’s space sector is attracting more investment than any country other than the US and China. Also joining Ian on today’s show are Jette Nygaard-Andersen from the gambling firm Entain and brickmaker Forterra’s chief executive, Stephen Harrison. :: Listen and subscribe to The Ian King Business Podcast here.
Tesla has added a rare new paint color option, “Ultra Red,” available on the Model S and Model X built at Fremont Factory. Back in the early days of the Model S, Tesla used to offer a variety of colors, but the automaker decided to streamline options in order to facilitate production and service. It
Millions of rats living across New York City are susceptible to COVID-19, researchers have found. Like humans, the rodents have proved vulnerable to multiple variants of the virus, from the original to Omicron, including high levels of infection in their upper and lower airways. A World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2021 concluded that the