Year: 2025

New York CNN — Over the last few years, Starbucks pulled out 30,000 comfortable seats, installed hard wooden stools, blocked electrical outlets and turned stores into takeout counters for customers picking up orders off its mobile app. The changes backfired and customers left for local coffee shops and other chains […]

Shark Tank India recently posted a teaser of the upcoming fifth season of the show on Instagram.The now viral teaser takes a sly dig at the 70-hour work week comment made by Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy.The promo can be seen mocking the long working hours, but it also draws parallels […]

Stephanie Ivory counts on Medicaid to get treated for gastrointestinal conditions and a bulging disc that makes standing or sitting for long periods painful.Her disabilities keep her from working, she said. Ivory, 58, of Columbus, Ohio, believes she would be exempt from a requirement that adult Medicaid recipients work , […]

CNN — Journalists ask questions, vet the answers and report the results to the public.That’s pretty much the job description. But the Trump administration is claiming that it’s unpatriotic to do so. Several days after the US conducted airstrikes in Iran, as the public awaits a clearer picture of the […]

Fresh satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies shows significant damage at three of Iran’s key nuclear sites, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, just days after U.S.B-2 stealth bombers conducted strikes ordered by President Donald Trump . The new photos, released on June 24, provide the clearest post-strike visuals to date, showing […]

More people are buying electric cars and installing heat pumps than ever before, but those numbers need to increase even further, according to the government’s climate advisers. The independent Climate Change Committee said that the government needed to make sure that households benefit from the switch to cleaner technologies through […]

A quarter of a century after their land was seized during a chaotic land reform programme that made global headlines, a small group of white Zimbabwean farmers have accepted a controversial compensation deal from the government. Once the backbone of the country’s agricultural sector, many of them are now elderly, […]

Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent FOSTER + PARTNERS There will be a bridge with a reinforced glass balustrade, evoking a tiara The winning design for the national memorial for Queen Elizabeth II will feature a bridge with a balustrade made of glass, new gates and commemorative gardens. The design will also […]

Annabelle Liang & Nick Marsh Business reporter & Transport correspondent Getty Images Almost half of all cars sold in China last year were electric “I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,” says Lu Yunfeng, a private hire driver, who is at a charging station on the outskirts of […]

Topline In a moment long-awaited by astronomers, the Vera C.Rubin Observatory in the Chilean Andes has today published its first images and time-lapse videos.A combination of a unique telescope and the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy, Rubin will begin a 10-year mission later this year, during which it’s […]