The Australia-based company Recharge Industries will take over collapsed battery maker Britishvolt after finalising a deal with administrators late on Sunday in the UK. The agreement revives hopes for the construction of a £3.8bn (A$6.7bn) “gigafactory” in northern England, the ...

The organisers of the world’s largest trial of the four-day working week have launched a drive to persuade more companies to try the idea, after receiving global coverage. The 4 Day Week Campaign said it aimed to persuade hundreds more ...

HANOI — Vietnam’s National Assembly will hold an extraordinary meeting this week, a session that officials and diplomats expect to confirm the appointment of a new president amid a leadership reshuffle prompted by a sweeping crackdown on graft. Multiple officials ...

SYDNEY — New Zealand will launch an international fundraising appeal for the massive reconstruction work needed after Cyclone Gabrielle tore across the country’s north earlier this month, forcing thousands of people into shelters and killing eleven. The appeal will fund ...

WHEN UN negotiations over a global agreement on plastic waste convene for a second session this spring, the European Union (EU) will bring evidence that it practices what it preaches. In November, the European Commission proposed sweeping packaging regulations that ...

KYIV — The United States warned China of serious consequences were it to provide arms to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Kyiv’s top general visited the frontline town of Bakhmut where Ukrainian defenders were holding out against constant attacks. ...

KYIV — When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, the shelves of the Novus supermarket chain in Kyiv quickly emptied as its supply chains — domestic and overseas — collapsed. Fresh produce became scarce and panic buying spread. Oleksiy Panasenko, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX was set to launch early on Monday the International Space Station‘s next long-duration team into orbit, with an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates and a Russian cosmonaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously ...

The viruses that infected two people in Cambodia with H5N1 avian influenza have been identified as an endemic clade of bird flu circulating in the country, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The cases reported last week had raised concerns they were caused by a new strain ...

SINGAPORE, Feb 27 – China approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity last year, four times higher than a year earlier and the highest since 2015, driven by energy security considerations, research showed on Monday. Over the year, 50 GW of coal power capacity went into ...