Three swans were rescued from a disused sewage works after a five-hour operation involving 15 firefighters.
The US oil industry is facing an unprecedented collapse, and as the global economy faces its worst recession since the 1930s, the industry isn't likely to recover to pre-crash levels ever again. It's game-over for most of the US oil industry. Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers...
Easing the UK's Covid-19 lockdown is being presented as a case of greedy capitalists who want workers to go back to making profits at great risk to themselves. In fact the wealthiest will do best of all from a prolonged shutdown. It's ‘the capitalists' versus ‘the people'. Or at least that's how some opponents of...
Housebuilder Persimmon has not seen a big drop in house prices during lockdown, but its forward sales have taken a hit, the company revealed on Wednesday.
Turkey has extended the closure of schools until the end of May as part of its measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, Education Minister Ziya Selcuk said on Wednesday. Ankara announced the initial closure of schools on March 12 after it reported its first case of Covid-19. It now has almost 115,000 cases with...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will extend a national state of emergency over the coronavirus by a month, domestic media reports said, even as some nations began to lift restrictions. … Click to Continue »
Strolling through Berlin's sprawling Tiergarten, window-shopping along stylish Kurfurstendamm boulevard, getting stuck in traffic again: after a winter of vigilance, Germans are venturing out, masked and properly socially distanced, to … Click to Continue »
