Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. A global minimum tax on billionaires raising up to $250 billion annually is “technically feasible” and could be successfully enforced even if it were not adopted by every country, a report commissioned by the G20 … Read more
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as imaged on June 1, 2024 by Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope … [+] Project. Gianluca Masi at the virtual telescope project While there are no guarantees, a comet is expected to brighten significantly over the coming months and, with luck, could be a bright naked-eye comet in September and October. … Read more
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, found a request from Abu Dhabi’s national oil company Adnoc in his inbox last week. Could the team that bid for Covestro, one of Germany’s largest companies, show goodwill by sweetening the deal by €2 per share, or 3 percent? Sheikh Mohammed, also chairman … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emerging market currencies are on track for their worst first half of the year since 2020, pushed lower by an unexpectedly strong dollar and a decline in a popular trading strategy in Latin American markets. … Read more
Adam StarkeyPublished June 21, 2024, 1:41 PM|Updated June 21, 2024, 1:42 PM Make way for GTA 6 (Rockstar) If you’re wondering why Microsoft gave so many vague release dates during the Xbox Games Showcase, it looks like GTA 6 is partly to blame. While the Xbox Games Showcase was perhaps the best presentation during this … Read more
Make way for GTA 6 (Rockstar) If you’re wondering why Microsoft gave so many vague release dates during the Xbox Games Showcase, that’s what it seems GTA 6 is partly to blame. While the Xbox Games Showcase was perhaps the best presentation during this year’s replacement E3 season, its main drawback was the lack of … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Reconstruction of the skull of Gordonia traquari based on CT scans of its fossil. Credit: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (2024). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae065 × close to Reconstruction of the skull of Gordonia traquari based on CT scans of its … Read more
By Matthew Phelan Senior science reporter for Dailymail.Com 6:51 PM June 17, 2024, updated 9:22 PM June 17, 2024 This year marks the first ‘great lunar standstill’ since 2006, when the moon’s path travels higher in the sky – to people on the ground it appears to be standing still. Also known as the ‘lunistice’, … Read more
The grieving daughter of the French explorer who died on the doomed Titan submarine says she hasn’t heard from OceanGate in the year after the disaster. Sidonie Nargeolet’s 77-year-old father Paul-Henri Nergeolet – known as ‘Mr Titanic’ – was one of five people killed when a submarine catastrophically imploded during its journey to the wreck … Read more
By Colin Fernandez Environmental Correspondent 10:06 PM June 16, 2024, updated 10:09 PM June 16, 2024 Monty Don has opposed the creation of a lawn at Longmeadow’s home in Herefordshire Don finally relented after watching his three grandchildren play outside He revealed that he was sowing grass grass at 30 grams per square meter for … Read more