The prospect of pylons, wind turbines and solar farms springing up across the countryside has upset a number of UK communities. But the head of Energy UK, Emma Pinchbeck, believes there is a way to decarbonise our electricity and sooth these tensions. Pinchbeck is tapped to be the next leader of the Climate Change Committee, … Read more
Getty Images Kamala Harris has been holding rallies across the US as she campaigns against Donald Trump, and will appear in Milwaukee on Tuesday ahead of her headline speech at the Democratic National Convention later in the week. She has made a series of claims contrasting their records on the economy, healthcare, abortion and immigration. … Read more
New Delhi: Flagging concerns over lack of institutional safety norms in medical establishments across the country, the Supreme Court on Tuesday constituted a 10-member national task force (NTF) to formulate a protocol for ensuring the safety and security of doctors and other health care professionals amid spiralling nation-wide protests over the rape and murder of … Read more
Pamela Muirhead had been looking forward to her first paddleboarding session, but the enjoyment lasted all of seven minutes. “Then, pure terror,” she says. She had won a competition for a free session at Maidens beach in Ayrshire, and set off cautiously while her two teenage children and the instructor watched from the shore. After … Read more
LOS ANGELES: After a relationship that spanned two decades, two engagements, two weddings and headlines too numerous to count, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck . The filing Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court brought to an apparent end a celebrity coupling — or at least the second installment of it — … Read more
Fierce fighting has continued inside Russia as Ukrainian troops tried to seize more territory and used kamikaze drones to blow up a Russian pontoon bridge across a strategic river crossing. Satellite images showed that the temporary bridge on Tuesday had disappeared and there were large puffs of grey smoke. Russian forces built the pontoon between … Read more
Getty Images Taylor Swift has played to more than 1.2 million UK fans this summer Taylor Swift had finished the European leg of her Eras tour with a record-breaking show at Wembley Stadium that was packed full of surprises. The pop star was joined on stage by Florence + The Machine and by Bleachers frontman … Read more
More than half a million children will go hungry during school holiday periods from the October half-term if the government fails to renew a £1bn local welfare crisis fund due to end in six weeks’ time, charities have warned. English councils last year spent £370m from their household support fund (HSF) allocations on holiday food … Read more
Anxious Democratic strategists are quietly trying to douse the euphoria engulfing Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign by warning that her surge in popularity masks an election contest that is on a knife-edge and could easily be lost. As the vice-president basks in adulation and optimism at the Democratic national convention in Chicago, key supporters are cautioning … Read more
As soon as John Boland moved into his house in inner-city Adelaide he got rid of the concrete and sheds and planted fruit trees. In the 30 years since, those trees have provided him with a third of his food and cooled his home so well he doesn’t need air conditioning. Deciduous trees on the … Read more