By John P. Mello Jr. Feb 9, 2021 4:07 AM PT Global sales of electric vehicles in 2020 surged despite a drop in overall sales of passenger cars, a market research firm reported Monday. Sales of EVs jumped 39 percent globally, reaching 3.1 million units, while sales of passenger vehicles […]
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Former Greek Minister Yanis Varoufakis has rubbished the European Union’s plans for the Euro currency. While speaking to the Economic Research Council in a video chat, Mr Varoufakis dismantled the EU’s longterm economy strategies. He also highlighted the many issues with having austerity policies across the member states. Mr Varoufakis […]
By Sudarshan Varadhan CHENNAI (Reuters) – The share of solar energy in India’s power generation could equal coal-fired output by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday, driven by falling renewable tariffs and a government push to increase green energy use. “Solar power is set for explosive growth […]
FILE PHOTO: Cars intended for export wait at the port for loading, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Bremerhaven, Germany, April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer BERLIN (Reuters) – German exports rose in December as robust trade with China and the United States helped Europe’s largest economy […]
Chelsea ‘set to hold talks with Thiago Silva over a contract extension’ with Blues chiefs ‘so happy’ with Brazilian veteran’s impact… but ‘club will ask Bayern Munich star David Alaba to lower £400k-a-week demands’ Chelsea are set to hold talks with Thiago Silva over a contract extension The 36-year-old joined […]
1.11am GMT01:11 Queensland man charged with murder using a chair A man has been charged with murdering another man using a wooden chair at a home in Rockhampton, AAP report. The two men were at a house at Lakes Creek on 28 January when they got into an altercation, police […]
Hans Jörg Holzkämpfer, 81, receives the second dose of coronavirus vaccine at an assisted living facility in Munich on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times) BRUSSELS — The people on television were joyous: Jubilant Britons were receiving the world’s first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in early […]
David Schwimmer jokes that in more normal times he has no trouble making dinner reservations at the best restaurants. For the affable and self-deprecating chief executive of the venerable 300-year-old London Stock Exchange, sharing a name with one of the stars of the comedy show Friends is just curious happenstance. […]