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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A plane engine – not the aircraft in question A Chinese man who was flying for the first time has been fined for throwing “good luck” coins into a plane’s engine. The 28-year-old was ordered to pay $17,200 (£13,100) in compensation to the budget airline – called Lucky Air. […]

Image caption The apprenticeship levy was intended to fund high-quality training Half of apprenticeship courses in England have been accused of being “fake” by an education think tank. The EDSK report says the apprenticeship levy – paid by big employers – is being used on low-skilled jobs or relabelling existing posts, rather than training. Tom

Image copyright Fox Image caption Rami Malek won an Oscar for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody’s success at the box office in 2018 was replicated in the living room last year. The Freddie Mercury biopic was the biggest home video of 2019, selling 1.7 million copies in the UK. Two-thirds of those

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Amazon Employees for Climate Justice lead a walkout at the company’s headquarters in Seattle in September A group of Amazon employees has said the company has threatened to fire some of them for speaking out on environmental issues. Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said the workers were told they

Illinois pot vendors started the new year by bringing in nearly $3.2 million on the state’s first day of legal recreational cannabis sales. The state is the 11th to legalize cannabis for adult use. There were long lines and more than 77,000 transactions on Wednesday, according to former state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s pot czar

Here’s a quiz question: what do using road navigation systems, keeping time consistent around the world and having accurate stock exchange data have in common? The answer is that they all depend on working satellites. But an increasing amount of debris polluting space is now posing a risk to all those services. So one Japanese

Amazon told its employees they could be fired after they tried to publicly pressure the online retail giant to more urgently address climate change. The group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said its leaders had been threatened and questioned by the company’s human resources department about comments they made in the press last year. The

Image copyright Getty Images Travelex has been forced to take down its website after a cyber attack. The foreign-currency seller has been working on the issue since the software virus attack on New Year’s Eve. “We regret having to suspend some of our services in order to contain the virus and protect data,” Travelex boss

Image copyright Alamy Sonos is facing a backlash for encouraging customers to get rid of their old speakers when there may be nothing wrong with them. The US speaker giant offers customers a 30% discount on new products if they follow steps to recycle their old ones. Following these puts the device in Recycle Mode,

Image copyright Getty Images Apple has revived a licensing relationship with UK-based chipmaker Imagination Technologies. Imagination said it will allow Apple to access “a wider range of Imagination’s intellectual property” in exchange for fees under a new, “multi-year” deal. It comes about three years after the iPhone maker’s decision to break ties disrupted Imagination’s business.