UK annual house price growth slowed last month, with experts warning that mortgage affordability could counter some demand from house hunters in the year ahead. Data released by Halifax, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, showed that the price of the average home climbed by 3.3% in December compared with the same period a year earlier –…
Defence PRO, Guwahati The miners were trapped when water flooded the mine Rescuers in India are racing against time to bring out miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Assam. Three of the nine men inside were feared dead, Reuters reported, after the state government said rescue teams had spotted…
Samsung Electronics plans to ramp up its on-device AI business, with the aim of exceeding global market growth in the consumer electronics segment this year. The global consumer electronics market for smartphone, TV and home appliances will grow roughly 3% in 2025, Jong-Hee Han, chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics, told CNBC’s Chery Kang. Samsung,…
Bradley Beal made the most of the unfamiliar role of substitute for the Phoenix Suns. That doesn’t mean he had to like it. Beal came off the bench for the first time in nine years on Monday night and scored a team-high 25 points as the Suns snapped a four-game losing streak with a 109-99…
The luxury tights and lingerie brand Wolford has apologised after heavy criticism from customers over delays to orders and refunds, admitting its delivery services were overstretched. Shoppers have taken to the reviews site Trustpilot to warn others against making orders, with some saying they had waited for more than a month for their goods to…
This picture taken on Feb. 16, 2024 shows a logo of Nippon Steel Corp. at the company’s Kyushu manufacturing base in Kitakyushu city of Fukuoka Prefecture. U.S. President Joe Biden plans to express concern over Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion purchase of U.S. Steel, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, pushing the…
Airplanes on the tarmac during a snow storm at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Thousands of flights were disrupted Monday as a winter storm moved eastward, snarling air travel in the eastern U.S. By 5:45 p.m. ET, more than…
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder, president and CEO, speaks about the future of artificial intelligence and its effect on energy consumption and production at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27, 2024. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Nvidia revealed new chips for desktop and laptop PCs on Monday that use the same Blackwell…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature As well as Kathmandu, areas around Lobuche in Nepal in the high mountains near Everest were also rattled by the tremor and aftershocks, AFP reported. “It shook quite strongly here, everyone is awake,” said government official Jagat Prasad Bhusal in Nepal’s…
Eleven Yemeni detainees have been moved from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to Oman. The move has left 15 detainees in the prison in Cuba – the smallest number at any point in its history. In a statement, the Department of Defense thanked Oman for supporting US efforts “focused on responsibly reducing the…
