Thirsty England fans bought more than 8m pints on Saturday, with higher sales expected as the team progresses World Cup live – latest updates Business live – latest updates England’s group stage matches in the World Cup have been a boon for UK pubs, which have poured 5.5m more pints of draught beer and cider than usual. Saturday’s clash against Panama was the biggest trading occasion of the tournament so far, with more than 8m pints served. Continue reading...
Organizers of the four-day Electric Forest festival are appealing for attendees to come forward with information A newborn baby was found dead in a portable bathroom at a Michigan dance music festival on Sunday, and organizers are now appealing for festivalgoers to come forward with information. “It causes us so much pain to have to share this difficult news with you,” Electric Forest festival organizers wrote online on Sunday night. Saying the organizers were “heartbroken”, the statement added:
San Jose police say Sunday incident in area that has been hosting watch parties ‘is being investigated as a homicide’ One person was killed and another seriously injured on Sunday night in a shooting at a popular entertainment spot in San Jose , California , that has been hosting a World Cup “fan zone” as well as screening matches, police said. There were no World Cup games being screened at the time of the shooting, with the only match of the day in the tournament finishing at about 2pm lo
Western states experience unseasonally low temperatures but New York and Washington DC could reach 40C by end of week Unseasonal snow has fallen in some parts of the US, while other parts of the country brace for a heatwave this week. A strong cold front spread into the western US from the northern Pacific over the weekend, bringing an abrupt change in conditions to a region that had been experiencing high summer temperatures amid drought. Temperatures from the Canadian border to California have
Well, it was nice while it lasted. I thought we had finally broken the Shane Van Gisbergen spell when someone else won on a road course last week, only for him to absolutely mop the floor with us Sunday at Sonoma. Sure, Chase Briscoe tried to make things interesting at the end, but come on ... we all knew SVG was winning that race. You could've put Jeff Gordon in the field and SVG still would've dominated Sears Point. Side note: Remember when it used to be called "Sears Point?" Simpler times. Ba
BBC World News · Oct 8
The former US president took aim at his successor's projects in Washington DC, including a planned new White House ballroom.
Fox News · Oct 8
King Charles III made history this week by becoming the first reigning British monarch to publicly disclose how much he pays in taxes. Buckingham Palace revealed the king's voluntary tax payments as part of its annual financial reports released Thursday. The monarch is not legally required to pay income or capital gains tax but does so voluntarily under a longstanding arrangement. The unprecedented disclosure also included the first public release of Prince William's voluntary tax payments and w
Guardian - World · Oct 8
US commerce department accuses state of ‘environmental terrorism’ and plans to evaluate its coastal agency The Trump administration plans to evaluate the performance of the California Coastal Commission, in the latest escalation of a dispute between the state’s Democratic leaders and the federal government over energy production. Per federal law, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is required to conduct reviews of federally approved coastal management programs, which take
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Underwater expedition by Florida-based team supports possible therapeutic use of bacterial toxins from sea squirts Researchers at a Florida university say bacterial toxins produced by tiny marine organisms they have studied in Antarctica could become an effective treatment for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. A team from the University of South Florida (USF) recently returned from a six-week expedition to one of the world’s remotest regions in which they collected samples of ascidian
