Twitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with knowledge of how the company responds to large-scale events. The former employee, who was ...
Almost seventy per cent of manufacturing decision makers agree that their sustainability strategy has been restricted due to cost pressures. The stalling of progress in green initiatives is also revealed by 72% of respondents saying that less than 50% of ...
Rishi Sunak will be told by business leaders today to increase migration to tackle “vast” labour shortages and avoid a “dormant economic decade”. The prime minister will instead insist that he can boost growth through spurring innovation, in a riposte ...
The hospitality sector is buckling from a “toxic mix” of headwinds as higher labour and energy costs combined with a slowdown in consumer spending lead to a surge in insolvencies. Pubs, restaurants and cafés are battling to hire and retain ...
Rail cancellations have reached their highest level on record with more than 314,000 trains fully or partly cancelled across the UK in a year. Figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) show that the proportion of cancelled services ...
LONDON/LVIV, Ukraine — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has warned that whoever fired artillery at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was “playing with fire” as his team prepared to inspect it on Monday for damage from the ...
SHENZHEN — Growing up in a Chinese village, Julian Zhu only saw his father a few times a year when he returned for holidays from his exhausting job in a textile mill in southern Guangdong province. For his father’s generation, ...
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden, Jr., turned 80 on Sunday, making him the first octogenarian president in US history. He celebrated his birthday with a brunch hosted by his wife, Jill, a celebration that got an extra lift this weekend ...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The COP27 summit of nearly 200 countries agreed on Sunday to set up a “loss and damage” fund to support poorer countries being ravaged by climate impacts, overcoming decades of resistance from wealthy nations whose historic ...
WASHINGTON/MANILA — US Vice President Kamala D. Harris visits the Philippines this week in the Biden administration’s latest high-level engagement with America’s oldest Asian ally and an increasingly vital strategic partner as tensions rise with China over Taiwan. The following ...