By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) – Twelve major cities including London, Paris, Los Angeles and Cape Town promised on Monday to buy only zero-emissions buses from 2025 and to make major areas free of fossil fuel emissions by 2030 to protect the environment. The 12, with a combined population of almost 80 million, said they […]
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(The Oct. 20 story corrects dateline and first sentence to reflect that Tangier Island is in Virginia, not Maryland) By Emily Flitter TANGIER ISLAND, Va. (Reuters) – This summer, a delegation of Republican climate activists visited Tangier Island, a speck of grassland in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, to try to convince its 450 residents to take […]
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RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns investment firm Kingdom Holding, said in an interview with CNBC on Monday that he was optimistic about his investment in Twitter. “It’s not going to be easy because they face some difficulties, but our entry point was very reasonable, so right now it’s holding on […]
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MILAN (Reuters) – Giorgio Armani’s succession plans include a transfer of part of his high-end fashion empire to his charitable foundation in a bid to prevent any takeovers or a break-up of the group, the designer told a newspaper. Last year, Armani, 83, created a foundation in his name which said he planned to lead […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – David Letterman, a pioneering entertainer who was the longest-running host of late-night TV in U.S. history, was honored on Sunday for his contributions to American culture. After-hours television was built around the set-piece interview and guest appearance when Letterman’s “Late Night” broke the mold in 1982 with absurd pranks and send-ups. Everyday […]
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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities will arrest and charge the sister of opposition leader Raila Odinga with incitement to violence after attacks on the election board, the chief prosecutor’s office said on Monday. Odinga has pulled out of the re-run of an election he was due to contest on Thursday against President […]
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s new central bank governor will be tax law professor Florens Luoga, the country’s president said on Monday. President John Magufuli said Luoga would take over in December or January after the tenure of current governor Benno Ndulu expires. “I have decided to appoint a new (central bank) governor from […]
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline has won U.S. approval for a new and improved shingles vaccine, the second of three key products for which the British drugmaker expects approval this year. It also secured a recommendation from UK cost authorities for a $700,000 gene therapy for so-called “bubble boy” disease — a step […]
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(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline’s gene therapy for the so-called “bubble boy” disease was approved by Britain’s healthcare cost watchdog NICE, despite a price tag of almost 600,000 euros ($700,000). Gene therapy is designed to deliver a one-off cure for the patient and drugmakers are typically asking a hefty price that is comparable to the combined costs […]
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By Muyu Xu and David Stanway BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will strive to comply fully with its own air quality standards by 2035, the country’s environment minister said on Monday, adding that the long and difficult battle against pollution would eventually benefit the economy. Speaking on the sidelines of China’s Communist Party Congress, Minister of […]
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By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to sea after largely sparing the capital, Tokyo. Four people were reported killed, hundreds of plane flights canceled, and […]
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By Justin George Varghese (Reuters) – Britain’s Spire Healthcare has rejected a full takeover offer from South African private hospitals operator Mediclinic International, which already owns nearly 30 percent of its stock, sending its shares up 12 percent. Spire said Mediclinic had made a preliminary and conditional proposal that consisted of 150 pence in cash […]
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