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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Metrolink tram system in Greater Manchester is one scheme that could benefit The Conservatives have promised £4.2bn of new spending on local train, bus and tram services if they win the 12 December general election. The party said the cash, which would become available from 2022, would help […]

Image copyright Peloton A Christmas advert from exercise bike company Peloton has been widely mocked on social media as being “sexist”, “out of touch”, and even “dystopian”. The ad, which has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube, sees a woman receive an exercise bike for Christmas from her husband. She then records

Image copyright Deliveroo An advert featuring a woman diving into a Deliveroo delivery bag to retrieve multiple food orders has been banned. The Advertising Standards Authority said it might mislead viewers to think they “could order food from different restaurants to be delivered together”. The ASA received 300 complaints, the third highest of the year

Image copyright Getty Images We don’t always notice vital infrastructure until something goes wrong. So it was at Citibank in London in the 1960s. On the first floor, payment instructions were inserted into a canister and sent upstairs via vacuum tube. On the second floor, a team confirmed the transactions and sent their authorisations back

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The pair (photographed in 2008) founded Google 21 years ago Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, have announced they are stepping down from running the online giant’s parent company. The pair will leave their respective roles as Alphabet’s CEO and president but will remain on the company’s

Current Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to absorb their current responsibilities and become CEO of both Alphabet and Google. “Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost,” Page and Brin wrote in a letter about the

Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr Trump says he has no deadline for a US-China deal US President Donald Trump has set off a new bout of trade worries, firing tariff threats and hinting that a China deal may not happen for another year. Speaking at a Nato summit on Tuesday, Mr Trump said he

Image copyright AFP Image caption Iceland and other Nordic nations are widely admired for family-friendly policies Iceland’s prime minister has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures. Katrin Jakobsdottir has teamed up with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Ardern to promote

Last week, Google fired four employees in what they claim was a targeted effort to curtail labor organizing efforts at the company. The engineers leveled the allegations in a statement Tuesday, accusing the Silicon Valley giant of retaliating against them for speaking up about a range of both internal and external issues they say are

Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s troubled retail sector has been given a boost by Black Friday promotions, figures indicate. Barclaycard, which processes nearly £1 of every £3 spent in the UK, says that sales volumes from 25 November to 2 December were up 7.1% compared with 2018, while sales value rose by 16.5%. “Consumers