Dallas engineering giant Jacobs to support UK’s first satellite launch site July 27, 2021 Dallas engineering giant Jacobs, which works with NASA, has secured a role in supporting the UK’s first vertical space satellite launch site due to be based in the Scottish Highlands. Jacobs will assess the local supply chain and report on how advanced engineering, asset management and avionics – aviation electronics – can be transferred to [...]
Tesla shifts gear with $11.9bn revenue despite Bitcoin investment losses July 27, 2021 Elon Musk’s electric carmaker Tesla has edged past analyst forecasts with an $11.9bn revenue in its second-quarter trading, up 98 per cent year on year. Tesla also pulled in $1.1bn in net profits in the 12 weeks to 26 July, the first time it has topped $1bn in a single quarter. While the revenues are [...]
Indian social media ShareChat teeters on $3bn valuation after funding rally July 27, 2021 Indian social media platform ShareChat is teetering on a valuation of $3bn after its latest funding round pulled in $145m. It comes not even three months after the Bangalore-based startup bagged $502m in backing, which hoisted its valuation to $2.1bn. With a climbing value, ShareChat has managed to secure a cool $911m in funding over [...]
Norton Rose Fulbright technical glitch causes staff gender pronouns mix up July 27, 2021 A software error resulted in a gender pronoun mixup in emails for Norton Rose Fulbright staff. The global law firm allowed its staff in Australia earlier this month to specify what pronounce they wished to be referred to by including “he/him”, “she/her” and “they/them”. But a technical problem glitch meant those staff pronouns changed randomly. [...]
First person found guilty under Hong Kong’s controversial security law July 27, 2021 The first person charged under Hong Kong’s controversial national security law could face life in prison after three judges found Tong Ying-kit guilty of inciting secession and terrorism charges on Tuesday. The landmark ruling, which came 13 months after the law imposed by Beijing, has marked implications on how the legislation reshapes Hong Kong’s common [...]
Vatican insiders go on trial for embezzlement in Holy See’s first prosecution of a powerful cardinal July 27, 2021 In a case based on a widespread probe into the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See’s portfolio of assets, including donations by countless Catholic worshippers, a trial is due to begin this morning in Vatican City which includes 10 defendants, including a once-powerful cardinal. Among the defendants is Italian prelate Angelo Becciu, a veteran [...]
World War Two veteran cheats death twice as he beats Covid after weeks in hospital July 26, 2021 Russian World War Two veteran Nikolai Bagayev feels like he has cheated death twice. This time though, the enemy was not the German troops invading the Soviet Union but Covid-19. Watch the full report.
US and China hold ‘frank and open’ talks but differences yet to be resolved July 26, 2021 The high-level face-to-face meeting between China and the US highlighted the difference and no specific outcomes were agreed. US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today with her counterpart, China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in the Chinese city of Tianjin. The talks came after the worsening relations between Beijing and Washington [...]
‘Unusually large’ meteor lights up night sky over Norway July 26, 2021 Norwegians have been stunned by an “unusually large” meteor that lit up the night sky in southern Norway on Sunday. Witnesses described powerful flashes of light followed by loud bangs as the meteor rumbled across the sky over the capital of Oslo, and the phenomena have been seen as far north as Trondheim as reported. [...]
Russia PM plots his own Cayman Islands with disputed Japanese territories July 26, 2021 Russia has said its prime minister can go wherever he wants on Russian territory, following a Japanese diplomatic protest against his visit to a disputed string of islands. Tokyo has set out an official diplomatic protest over the visit by prime minister Mikhail Mishustin to one of four Russian-held islands which Japan claims, a Japanese [...]