DUNDEE, UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) – Surrounded by rows of healthy saplings grown using the latest LED technology, Scottish forestry researcher Kenny Hay has been left in little doubt that the science can boost Britain’s net zero efforts. The trays of young trees stacked nine metres high inside the James Hutton Institute near Dundee in eastern […]
LONDON (AFP) – Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain’s Booker Prize for fiction for his work The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a journalist murdered amid the country’s sectarian strife. “My hope for Seven Moons is this… that in the not-so-distant future… that it is read in a Sri Lanka that […]
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s government said yesterday it will cap wholesale energy bills for businesses this winter to ensure companies don’t go bust amid soaring energy prices. Authorities said the government will pick up nearly half of all business energy bills for six months starting October 1 to ensure companies “are able to get through […]
LONDON (AP) – Two days after the death of his mother elevated him to the throne, King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch yesterday, in a pomp-filled ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism – and, for the first time, broadcast live. Charles, who spent seven decades as heir apparent, automatically became king […]
LONDON (AP) – Queen Elizabeth II was much more than Britain’s monarch. She was sovereign to another 14 nations and a rare figure on the world stage who was almost universally admired. Her reach cut through hemispheres, generations, social divisions and politics. The tributes that followed her death on Thursday came not only from United […]