Thanks to the subway and streetcar, 80 percent of passengers in Vienna are already emission-free because Wiener Linien’s rail operations are purely electric. Now the public transport company is focusing on decarbonizing its bus fleet. Nächster Halt: Nachhaltige Busflotte! Bis 2025 bekommen wir 60 E-Busse […]
Warning: This story contains details of child sexual assault. A culture of misogyny and predatory behaviour, fuelled by poor vetting standards, is “prevalent” in police forces across England and Wales, according to a police watchdog. Wednesday’s report by the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary comes more […]
Days after taking over Twitter and a week before the US midterm elections, billionaire Elon Musk has positioned himself as moderator-in-chief of one of the most important social media platforms in American politics. Musk has said he will not make major decisions about content or […]
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.75 percentage points as it continues to battle the worst outbreak of inflation in 40 years, but is signalling that future increases in borrowing costs could be made in smaller steps to account for the “cumulative […]
The killers of media workers are getting away with murder. That was the warning on the United Nations’ International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists found nearly 80 percent of killings in the past decade have gone unpunished. […]
During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November in Mexico, the living remember and honour their dearly departed, but with celebration — not sorrow. It is believed that during the Day of the Dead — or Dia […]
Greece’s coastguard said that it had recovered the bodies of 21 refugees who were travelling on two boats that sank earlier this week. Twenty bodies were found near the island of Evia on Wednesday, a day after a sailboat believed to be carrying nearly 70 […]
Days after the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes tried to get a message to then-President Donald Trump that urged him to fight to stay in power and “save the republic”, according to trial testimony on Wednesday. Rhodes, […]
A gunman who opened fire at a US high school in Parkland, Florida in 2018, killing 17 and wounding 17 others, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, capping two days of emotional statements from family members of victims. Wednesday’s sentencing, which was […]
During the 2014 World Cup final, German midfielder Christoph Kramer fell to the ground after a collision with Argentina’s Ezequiel Garay. After some lengthy medical treatment, he was allowed to continue but approached the referee Nicola Rizzoli and asked, “Ref, is this the final?”. It […]
