Image copyright Getty Images If you think these Nike trainers look like any regular pair of old shoes – think again. They’ve been sold for almost half a million dollars at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. And the reason for that price tag is because they’re one of only 12 pairs ever made. Noah […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Boris Johnson has used his first speech as prime minister to make a series of spending promises as part of his plan “to take decisions…to change the country for the better”. Speaking in Downing Street, after taking over from Theresa May as Conservative leader, he outlined pledges including more police and
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Image copyright AFP Facebook has admitted that it was “rocked to its very foundations” by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook’s head of social affairs, Sir Nick Clegg, told the BBC that it was fair to say the company “hadn’t done enough” in the past. “But I don’t think it’s fair to say that the company
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Image copyright Getty Images O2 has announced it plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in October. It intends to launch the next-generation service in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Slough and Leeds and then expand to a total of 50 towns and cities by summer 2020. It will be the last of the UK’s
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Sunderland plant opened in 1986 Japanese car giant Nissan has announced 12,500 job cuts as it attempts to shore up its finances after recent troubles. It will reduce its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the end of 2022, but it did
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Image copyright Getty Images Boeing is warning that it might have to halt production of the 737 Max if grounding continues much longer. The company reported its largest-ever quarterly loss of $3.4bn (£2.7bn) on Wednesday due to the troubled plane. If hurdles with regulators worldwide continue, Boeing said it would consider reducing or shutting down
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Image copyright Getty Images As a teenager in the 1980s, Sajid Javid, the UK’s new chancellor, was an ardent admirer of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the country’s first female premier. He even has a portrait of the “Iron Lady” in his office. So as he packs his things at the Home Office ready for the
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Image copyright Getty Images Samsung’s first foldable smartphone will go on sale in September after problems with the device delayed its initial release. The April launch of the Galaxy Fold was postponed after early reviewers reported broken screens. Samsung said it had made “improvements” to the nearly $2,000 (£1,603) device which would be sold in
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Virgin Media’s cabinets are connected to local exchanges by optical fibre but link to most homes by copper-based cabling Virgin Media has pledged to offer internet download speeds of at least 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021. That represents about half of all UK households
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Sunderland plant opened in 1986 Nissan workers around the world are braced for the Japanese car giant to announce thousands of job cuts as it attempts to shore up its image and its finances after recent troubles. According to media reports, the firm will announce more than 10,000
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