GM’s 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV during a media launch event for the vehicle in Detroit, May 16, 2024. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT — Increases in sales of electric vehicles and small crossovers helped General Motors report slightly better-than-expected sales during the third quarter. The Detroit automaker reported a 2.2% drop in third-quarter sales compared…
An employee carries shoe boxes at the Footlocker retail store in the Barton Creek Square Mall on August 28, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Nike will report quarterly earnings on Tuesday as investors brace for another set of less-than-stellar results. The company announced last month that CEO John Donahoe would be…
Re your article on heat pumps in the UK (Are heat pumps the future or just a lot of hot air? 28 September), I live in the middle of Sweden, about the same latitude as the north of Scotland. Nearly all the houses in my area have air source heat pumps. When the air temperature…
Ministers have been warned not to resurrect Conservative plans to tackle welfare fraud by launching mass algorithmic surveillance of bank accounts. Disability rights, poverty, pensioner and privacy groups fear the government is poised to deliver a “snooper’s charter” by using automation and possibly artificial intelligence to crack down on benefit cheats and mistakes which cost…
Two male flamingos have joined their kind’s ranks of same-sex co-parents after hatching an egg together at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The two foster dads are both in their 40s and are lesser flamingos, a species found in sub-Saharan Africa and western India, according to the zoo. The chick is also a lesser…
A Kentucky sheriff charged with killing a local judge in the latter man’s judicial chambers resigned Monday. Shawn Stines, 43, the sherriff in Letcher county, Kentucky, allegedly shot state court judge Kevin Mullins, 54, in the local courthouse on 19 September. The motive for the killing is unclear. Stines stepped down as Kentucky’s governor, Andy…
Dobbies is planning to shut 17 of its 77 stores, affecting 465 jobs, as its new owners try to return the garden centre group to profitability. The company, which employs 3,600 workers, said it was seeking the approval of creditors for a restructuring plan that would reduce its rent bill. The closures by the end…
The Harry’s Bar culinary empire is as synonymous with Venice as its canals, inventing the bellini cocktail and hosting noted guests including Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway and Charlie Chaplin during its 93 years in business. But the lapping of the city’s waters has proved too much for the owner, Arrigo Cipriani, who is suing the…
A comet that has not been seen from Earth since Neanderthals were alive and kicking has reappeared in the sky, with astronomers saying it might be visible to the naked eye. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–Atlas) was discovered by astronomers early last year, and is thought to orbit the sun about every 80,000 years on a…
Salman Rushdie, Miranda July and Percival Everett are among this year’s finalists for the National Book awards. Rushdie, who is receiving his first nomination, is competing in the non-fiction category with his bestselling memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. The book recounts the 2022 stabbing that cost him sight in one of his eyes…
