Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their GCSE grades later today as they work towards sixth form, college or training. The number of pupils in England achieving at least a grade 4 in maths and English GCSE is expected to fall this year, amid efforts to restore grading to similar levels to
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Facebook groups are being “overwhelmed” by hoax posts about serial killers, missing children, and animals, a charity has warned. Full Fact said it had identified at least 1,200 examples of such misinformation across more than 100 areas in the UK, suggesting the content is being replicated. One hoax about a nine-year-old boy named Justin Smith
Greece is investigating whether organised arson groups are to blame for wildfires which now left at least 20 people dead. Greece‘s largest current fire has now been burning for five days just outside the city of Alexandroupolis, near the border with Turkey. Firefighters searching burnt out areas of the region discovered 18 bodies, believed to
A police force that lost nearly three years worth of body-worn camera footage from its computer systems says it does not believe it has been hacked. South Yorkshire Police believes the footage, filmed between July 2020 and May 2023, has instead been deleted and an estimated 69 cases have potentially been affected. The force said
NatWest has said former boss Dame Alison Rose, who quit last month over her handling of Nigel Farage’s bank account closure, could receive a pay package worth more than £2.4m. Dame Alison resigned last month, abruptly ending her four-year tenure, amid government pressure on her position. It followed her admission that she had discussed the
A senior police officer who gave evidence in an employment tribunal that ruled a female member of force staff was victimised has been charged with perjury. Inspector Keith Warhurst, 48, spoke during the case brought by Rhona Malone, which found evidence of a “boys’ club” culture within Police Scotland’s firearms unit. The tribunal came about
The remains of a man who is believed to have died in an accident on a glacier 22 years ago have been found high in the Austrian Alps. Police said the discovery was made by a mountain guide on the Schlatenkees glacier in the Hohe Tauern National Park in eastern Tyrol province, close to the
India will make its second attempt to land on the moon on Wednesday, a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and the country’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed. The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft will attempt to land on the lunar south pole at
India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole. Chandrayaan-3 was aiming to become the first spacecraft to touch down in a region of the lunar surface thought to contain deep craters with water ice. It touched down six weeks after launching on board a rocket from a
A major US bank has been fined £5.4m by the UK’s energy regulator for failures to record and retain communications between traders. Ofgem said that the penalty imposed on Morgan Stanley & Co International plc (MSIP) was the first of its kind and related to discussions over WhatsApp between January 2018 and March 2020. The
The polls in Zimbabwe have opened as the country votes on a president, parliament and local council positions. It will be the second general election since long-time repressive leader Robert Mugabe was ousted following a coup in 2017. The main contest is expected to be between President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 80, who is nicknamed “The Crocodile”,
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 21, 2023, 02:57 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Michigan is self-imposing a three-game suspension for coach Jim Harbaugh to begin the 2023 season, stemming from alleged violations committed during the COVID-19 dead period, a source told ESPN. Harbaugh will miss home
Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterAug 22, 2023, 04:21 PM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Washington sophomore running back Cameron Davis will miss the upcoming season for the No. 10 Huskies due to a lower body injury suffered in practice last week, coach Kalen DeBoer announced Tuesday. “Cam
Tesla keeps creating new paying accounts on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) to the point that it is now likely paying around $20,000 per year to be on the social media platform. It’s not clear what it is getting in return. Public companies, like Tesla, have to disclose any “related transaction” that may have conflict
England captain Owen Farrell has been suspended for four matches – meaning he will miss the first two games of the Rugby World Cup. He had been given a red card for a tackle deemed dangerous during a Wales game earlier this month – but this was downgraded to yellow. World Rugby subsequently appealed this
The UK’s largest carmaker has announced plans to use old car batteries to store energy the national grid can’t use and return it to the network at peak times. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is turning its used car batteries into what it says will be one of the largest energy storage systems in the UK.
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pallets of depleted lithium-ion batteries at JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials are ready for recycling. Source: CNBC Redwood Materials, the battery-recycling startup founded by Tesla board member JB Straubel, recently nabbed Tesla’s vice president of powertrain engineering, Colin Campbell, to serve as chief technology officer. Based
Tesla is evidently changing its solar strategy by starting to move away from having its own installers and relying more on certified installers. It is laying off staff working on deploying its own solar installations. Ever since Tesla acquired SolarCity in 2016 and turned it into its own solar division, there have been many ups
Korea’s first all-electric production car is due for a resurrection. Kia is set to revive the Ray EV next month, an entry-level minicar, to meet the growing demand for affordable electric cars. Kia first introduced the Ray EV in December 2011, a close relative to the gas-powered Ray CUV, as Korea’s first 100% electric production
Falling house prices and record wage growth has meant houses have become more affordable on paper, but the rising cost of borrowing has cancelled out any benefit. The cost of a typical UK home is 6.7 times average earnings, down from a peak of 7.3 last summer, according to analysis from the country’s biggest mortgage