World | FOCUS Feb 21, 2021

Britain’s next answer to COVID-19 is to prepare to live with it

The U.K. plan is a pilot for whether nations can do enough to end damaging lockdowns and essentially learn to live with the disease.

World / Politics Jan 3, 2020

Boris Johnson's top aide seeks 'weirdos and misfits' to change British government

Boris Johnson's top adviser wants to recruit "weirdos and misfits" as part of a drive to overhaul the way the U.K. government works. In a 3,000-word blog post, Dominic Cummings said he's seeking an "unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds" to work ...

World / Politics | ANALYSIS Jun 23, 2019

Johnson and Hunt on the campaign trail: How the two Tory rivals reckon they can fix Brexit

Boris Johnson will face his successor as foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in the final Conservative Party showdown to determine who takes over from Prime Minister Theresa May. Their visions for Brexit are similar: Both want to deliver on the referendum result of 2016, both want ...

World / Politics Jun 11, 2017

How May's sure thing became political disaster for the ages

It was 5:15 a.m. when an exhausted Theresa May entered the campaign war room at Tory headquarters to face her demoralized party workers. Surrounded by discarded food wrappers, inflated blue balloons and empty bottles of beer and wine, May addressed the wreckage of a gamble ...

Business / Corporate Nov 28, 2016

Jaguar Land Rover wants to make electric cars in Brexit U.K.

Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. said it intends to build electric cars in the U.K. if the government can overcome shortfalls in available energy and infrastructure investment, potentially giving Britain a manufacturing boost as it leaves the European Union. Jaguar Land Rover's expression of interest in ...

Environment Apr 5, 2014

World 'ill-prepared to face climate risks'

Global warming is depleting fresh water and crops, destroying coral reefs and melting the Arctic, the United Nations said Monday in a report that concludes the world is ill-prepared to face many new threats. Climate change has brought "key risks" that endanger lives and health ...

World / Science & Health Feb 1, 2014

Extinction threatens quarter of sharks, rays

A quarter of the world's sharks and rays are probably threatened with extinction, according to the most extensive assessment of the marine species. Thresher sharks, sawfishes and angel sharks are the most threatened families, according to a study by the International Union for the Conservation ...

World / Science & Health Nov 23, 2013

Ocean acidification may double by 2100: study

Ocean acidity is likely to more than double by 2100 because of fossil-fuel pollution, putting fisheries at risk and diminishing the capacity of the seas to absorb carbon-dioxide emissions, a study showed. The seas have already acidified by 26 percent since industrialization began two centuries ...

Business Nov 18, 2008

Missed emissions goals add up to ¥4.4 trillion penalty

Twenty nations including Japan, Italy and Australia may be releasing more greenhouse gas pollution than they agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol. As a penalty for missing their goals under the treaty, the nations are required to buy permits for every excess ton of carbon ...