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The group said its team was working "around the clock" to resolve disruption caused by a "cyber incident". READ SOURCE...

Inflation closed out 2022 in a modest retreat, with consumer prices in December posting their biggest monthly decline since early in the pandemic, the Labor Department reported Thursday.The consumer price index, which measures the cost of a broad basket of...

This coupled with the increasing availability of retail related data, low-cost computing, increased maturity of GIS technology and advent of artificial intelligence (AI)-machine learning (ML)/data science is disrupting the way the decisions were traditionally made. READ SOURCE...

A man pumps gas at a gas station in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, Dec. 13, 2022.Michael Nagle | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesDecember's monthly decline in the consumer price index gets the Federal Reserve...

British Gas owner Centrica has forecast an almost eightfold increase in full-year earnings despite the impact of new windfall taxes on energy companies after it benefited from soaring energy prices in 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The UK energy group...

HALF a million poor families will be left out of pocket under Net Zero plans, a landmark eco-review warns. Stricken low-income households will need more cash help to go green or they will lose out, ministers have been told. Thousands...

Secondary glazing is a process of adding another layer of glazing to a window. This is usually installed on the inside of the primary window to reduce heat loss and also cuts noise pollution.Adding another layer of glazing can help...

Nurses and ambulance staff are set to continue striking after unions rejected the Welsh Government’s offer of a one-off payment for its workers.A number of health unions took part in talks with government representatives, including health minister Eluned Morgan, on...

We have all experienced the frustration of trying to hold a conversation in a loud pub or restaurant. Now researchers have shown that dolphins may face a similar scenario, showing that they “shout” to each other when faced with background...

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington email The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to block oil from the country's emergency stockpile from going to...

BUSINESS CLOSE: US inflation falls; Tesco and M&S post solid Christmas sales; Persimmon warns on housing market weaknessBy Live Commentary Published: 07:47 GMT, 12 January 2023 | Updated: 17:10 GMT, 12 January 2023 ...

These latest spy shots give us our first look at the refreshed Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door and we can already see the new car will receive a redesigned exterior alongside expected technology updates.You might question why Mercedes is updating the GT...

Concerns have been raised in parliament that more households will be pushed on to prepayment meters through court warrants “issued in seconds” during freezing conditions next week.MPs joined charities and consumer groups in calling for an immediate ban on the...

Wipro, India's fourth largest IT major, has elevated over 70 executives as senior vice presidents (SVPs) and vice presidents (VPs) in recent weeks.Around 12 people have been awarded the SVP rank, while 61 got promoted to the VP rank. Livemint...

Police have announced the introduction of an unmarked mobile speed camera van in what they claim is a bid to reduce road deaths and injuries.Northamptonshire Police announced they were taking “the unusual step” of introducing the force’s first unmarked speed...

Adding potassium to your diet is more effective at lowering blood pressure than cutting out salt, an expert said. READ SOURCE...

© Reuters Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) downgraded as IT spending expected to moderate By Sam Boughedda  Evercore ISI downgraded shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:) to In Line from Outperform in a note to clients Thursday, leaving its target price unchanged...

A woman will head the International Bar Association for the first time in 20 years. Almudena Arpón de Mendívil, a partner at Madrid firm Gomez-Acebo & Pombo also becomes the second woman to hold the position in the association’s 76-year...

The writer is deputy mission director at NestaIt seems like an odd thing to say in the middle of an energy crisis, but we may be on the cusp of a new era of abundant energy. Not because of nuclear...

Bitcoin price jumped more than 5% on Thursday to hit levels above $18,400. According to on-chain data from Glassnode, the price rally has helped return 13% more BTC into profit; now 60.5% of circulating supply is in profit. Only 47%-48%...

Cryptocurrency broker Genesis Global Trading allegedly owes its creditors more than $3 billion, according to a Jan. 12 report from the Financial Times. Its parent, the Digital Currency Group (DCG), which also owns Grayscale Investments and its series of digital...

A buzz of excitement shot through Hollywood after Bob Iger returned to Walt Disney in late November, with hopes that the veteran chief executive would help his company — and the ailing entertainment industry as a whole — find its...

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Suzuki has revealed a new five-door version of the Jimny at the Auto Expo in Delhi. Officially marketed by Maruti Suzuki in India, the bigger Jimny won’t come to the UK due to emissions regulations. Although the three-door, four-seat Jimny was...

The UK Might Have Nearly Half a Million EVs Roaming Its Roads in ...  autoevolution READ SOURCE...

Kalu said it’s not true that the APC presidential candidate recently sounded incoherent on campaign grounds. The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzo Kalu says he does not believe the incoherent statements attributed to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential...

Energy bills are expected to fall below £2,500 from July as a drop in wholesale gas prices eases some of the pressure on Britons struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis.Analysis by Investec has forecast that the cap...

For years as a teenager I would think about how I’d fake my death. I’d been smitten by the news spot I’d seen on John Darwin, the British man who in the early 2000s fabricated his own disappearance with the...

Mortgage market volatility appears to remain rife as recent analysis by money comparison site Moneyfacts shows lenders are pulling products at record speed. The shelf life for an average fixed rate mortgage deal has fallen from 17 days in December...

The Bank of England has finished unwinding the emergency bond-buying scheme it launched to calm the turmoil in financial markets that followed Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget last autumn.Threadneedle Street said it had completed the sale of £19.3bn of government bonds...