LONDON (Reuters) – Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) committed itself on Tuesday to have net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, a decade ahead of the British government’s own target which it said “isn’t soon enough”. FILE PHOTO: Signage for Sainsbury’s is seen at a branch of the supermarket in London, Britain, January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
Month: January 2020
LONDON (Reuters) – World shares fell to their lowest in two weeks on Monday as worries grew about the economic impact of China’s spreading coronavirus with demand spiking for safe-haven assets such as Japanese yen and Treasury notes. The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 81 and the virus spread to
BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambian police arrested 137 people and more than two dozen were injured as protests calling for President Adama Barrow to honor a pledge to step down after three years in office turned violent for the first time, the government said. FILE PHOTO: Gambia’s President Adama Barrow sits in the chair reserved for
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial enters a pivotal week on Monday as his lawyers resume their defense following a fresh report that could intensify pressure on Senate Republicans to call former national security adviser John Bolton to testify. FILE PHOTO: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks as fellow House Impeachment Managers, Sylvia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz and two former independent counsels, Ken Starr and Robert Ray, will be among those defending President Donald Trump when they make their case to the U.S. Senate on Monday. FILE PHOTO: White House counsel Pat Cipollone carries a White House coffee cup with the presidential seal as he
Tennis – Australian Open – Fourth Round – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – January 27, 2020. Spain’s Rafael Nadal in action during his match against Australia’s Nick Kyrgios. REUTERS/Issei Kato MELBOURNE (Reuters) – World number one Rafa Nadal lost his first set of the tournament but rode out a spirited challenge from Nick Kyrgios to
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is talking to international partners to find solutions to help British and other foreign nationals leave the Chinese city of Wuhan, centre of a coronavirus outbreak, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. “The Foreign Office have said this morning that they are exploring options for British nationals
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial is expected to continue on Monday, following last week’s testimony by actress Annabella Sciorra that the former Hollywood mogul violently raped her in her Manhattan apartment in the early 1990s. FILE PHOTO: Film producer Harvey Weinstein departs his sexual assault trial at New York Criminal Court in
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The head of the Czech telecoms watchdog has resigned over government changes to a planned auction of frequencies for 5G telecoms networks, saying they risked slowing the rollout of the technology and were likely to result in court disputes. The Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) is planning an auction of frequencies in the
A rescue worker searches at the site of a collapsed building, after an earthquake in Elazig, Turkey, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas ELAZIG, Turkey (Reuters) – The death toll rose to 39 from the earthquake that struck eastern Turkey on Friday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday, as rescue teams continued the search for
Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant speaks to reporters at a Major League Soccer event in downtown Los Angeles, U.S. January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Rory Carroll (Reuters) – Retired basketball star Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California on Sunday morning, TMZ reported. Kobe was traveling with at least three other people
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Residents of China’s Hubei province, where the new coronavirus outbreak was first reported, will be banned from entering Hong Kong from Monday as China tries to halt the rapid spread of the outbreak. Health authorities around the world are racing to prevent a pandemic after more than 2,000 people were infected in
Passengers arrive at LAX from Shanghai, China, after a positive case of the coronavirus was announced in the Orange County suburb of Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 26, 2020. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu (Reuters) – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said on Sunday it had confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus in
NEW YORK (Reuters) – WeWork has signed a deal to provide space to 250 employees of gym membership app company Compass in New York, the latest example of the U.S. office-sharing start-up’s majority owner, SoftBank Group Corp, using its connections to buoy its business, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. A sign is
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to be locked in a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination, with only days left until voting begins, a couple of surveys indicated on Sunday. Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a campaign
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – STX’s “The Gentlemen” proved no match for Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life,” which again left box office competitors in the dust after collecting $34 million in its sophomore outing. FILE PHOTO: Cast members Will Smith (L) and Martin Lawrence pose at the premiere of “Bad Boys for Life” in Los Angeles,
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