Mark Poynting Climate and environment researcher Getty Images At more than 20km long, Aletsch Glacier is the biggest in the European Alps. But its front has retreated by around 3.2km (2 miles) since 1900, including more than 1km since 2000. The world’s glaciers are melting faster than ever recorded under the impact of climate change,…
A Carvana sign and signature vending machine in Tempe, Arizona. Michael Wayland | CNBC Carvana topped Wall Street’s top- and bottom-line expectations for the fourth quarter while guiding for another “strong” year in 2025. Carvana, as it has in the past, gave a broad guidance outlook for this year that includes growth in both retail…
Bob Pockrass FOX NASCAR Insider Chase Briscoe’s wonderful opening weekend with Joe Gibbs Racing was spoiled when NASCAR docked Briscoe 100 points and suspended crew chief James Small for four races because of a modification to the spoiler base. Briscoe, who won the pole and finished fourth in the Daytona 500, now faces a steep…
Two 500-plus pound black bears have laid claim to homes evacuated during the destructive Eaton fire in southern California. Last month, when Samy Arbid returned to his Altadena home, he found “Barry” – a 525lb black bear – living under the house. This week, another Californian reported a different unexpected visitor living in his house’s…
Europol/Spanish Police The ring transferred over €1tn (£828bn) over two years, said police Fourteen people have been arrested in Spain and Portugal in a series of raids targeting a €1tn (£828bn) criminal, money-laundering network working with gangs across Europe. Most of the suspects, detained last month, are Russian nationals, according to EU law enforcement agency…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent from the defense budget over each of the next five years, officials said on Wednesday. Mr. Hegseth said in a memo issued on Tuesday that a number of branches within the military and the Pentagon…
Luka Dončić is going back to work with the Los Angeles Lakers, and he’s likely back to full speed as well. Coach JJ Redick says Doncic probably won’t have a minutes restriction this week after his deliberate start to his Lakers tenure before the All-Star break. When the Lakers host Charlotte on Wednesday night, Doncic…
Palantir co-founder & CEO Alex Karp attends meetings at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 18, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The share price of Palantir fell by as much as 12.5% Wednesday after news that CEO Alex Karp had adopted a new stock trading plan, and after a report that the Pentagon has…
Fireball spotted in sky over Pocklington East Yorkshire before the debris crashed into eastern Europe At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by a object zooming through the air in flames. “I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack,” Simon…
A group of immigrants deported from the US to Panama last week have been moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darién jungle region in the south of the country, according to a lawyer representing an immigrant family. Susana Sabalza, a Panamanian immigration lawyer, said a family she represents was transferred to Metetí,…
