Keenly priced. Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy Keenly priced. Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Why are bananas so cheap to buy in the UK? In a big supermarket, a single banana costs about 15p, but…
A 14-year-old boy has died and five other people have been injured in a knife attack in southern Austria on Saturday, according to police, who said they had arrested a 23-year-old suspect. The suspect was detained in the city of Villach, where the attack took place, police said on Saturday. He is a Syrian national…
The Trump administration fired 20 immigration judges without explanation, a union official said on Saturday amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government. On Friday, 13 judges who had yet to be sworn in and five assistant chief immigration judges were dismissed without notice, said Matthew Biggs, president of the International Federation…
The US agency charged with overseeing nuclear weapons is looking to contact workers who were fired on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s federal cost-cutting measures, but are now needed back. Officials with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) attempted to notify some probationary employees who had been let go that they are due…
A woman in her 40s has died after a shooting at a Kent pub, police have said. She was shot at the Three Horseshoes in the village of Knockholt on Valentine’s Day evening, Kent police said. Officers were searching for the perpetrator and later found a vehicle containing a gun on the Queen Elizabeth II…
A two-year-old girl and her mother died on Saturday from injuries suffered in the car-ramming attack in Munich on Thursday that left 37 others injured, police said. “Unfortunately, we have to confirm the deaths today of the two-year-old child and her 37-year-old mother,” a police spokesperson told AFP. An Afghan man was arrested on suspicion…
Shares of Roku surged more than 10% Friday, at one point reaching a new 52-week high, on earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” CEO Anthony Wood said more than half of U.S. broadband households now watch TV with Roku. Wood said the company added more than four million…
Consumers sharply curtailed their spending in January, indicating a potential weakening in economic growth ahead, according to a Commerce Department report Friday. Retail sales slipped 0.9% for the month from an upwardly revised 0.7% gain in December, even worse than the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% decline. The sales totals are adjusted for seasonality…
The British semiconductor designer Arm is reportedly planning to launch its own chip this year, after landing Meta as one of its first customers. The move represents a major overhaul of the SoftBank-owned group’s business model of licensing its chip blueprints to the likes of Apple and Nvidia. Rene Haas, Arm’s chief executive, is set…
NatWest wants to increase its chief executive’s maximum pay by more than 40%, as the banking group prepares to return to full private ownership 17 years after it was bailed out by taxpayers during the 2008 financial crisis. The high street lender, previously known as Royal Bank of Scotland, paid its chief executive, Paul Thwaite,…
