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  • Joint parliament session approves law for protection of minority rights – Dawn

    1. Joint parliament session approves law for protection of minority rights  Dawn
    2. Parliament clears bill to establish commission for minority rights  The Express Tribune
    3. NA passes two amendment bills; two more introduced in the House  Associated Press…

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  • Dow Jones Top Company Headlines at 7 AM ET: Samsung's Next Salvo Against Apple: A Triple-Folding Smartphone | Bayer … – Morningstar

    1. Dow Jones Top Company Headlines at 7 AM ET: Samsung’s Next Salvo Against Apple: A Triple-Folding Smartphone | Bayer …  Morningstar
    2. Samsung unveils first ‘special edition’ triple-folding phone  Dawn
    3. Samsung launches its first multi-folding…

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  • Finnish research pinpoints a higher risk among cohabiting survivors

    Finnish research pinpoints a higher risk among cohabiting survivors

    Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have identified significant differences in mortality among widows and widowers from cohabiting versus married relationships, depending on the deceased partner’s cause of death….

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  • Tesla’s China-made EV sales rise 9.9% in November

    Tesla’s China-made EV sales rise 9.9% in November

    BEIJING, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Tesla’s (TSLA.O), opens new tab China-made electric vehicle sales rose 9.9% in November from a year earlier, as the U.S. automaker grapples with intense competition in China and Europe.

    Sales of Model 3 and Model Y vehicles made at Tesla’s Shanghai factory, including exports to Europe and other markets, were up 41.0% from October, data from the China Passenger Car Association showed on Tuesday.

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    The sales jump came as the EV specialist introduced a longer-range rear-wheel-drive variant of its best-selling Model Y in China last month, following the earlier launches of a longer-range Model 3 version and the six-seat Model Y L in the market.

    The annual rise in November was the steepest in 14 months.

    Tesla’s main business has been under pressure, notably from Chinese rivals, while Elon Musk shifts his focus to self-driving robotaxis and humanoid robotics.
    EV newcomer Xiaomi (1810.HK), opens new tab has swiftly emerged as a Tesla challenger in China with the SU7 sedan and YU7 SUV, having exceeded its sales target of 350,000 vehicles for this year.
    Tesla’s biggest Chinese rival BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab, saw overseas shipments soar to a record high of over 130,000 vehicles last month. It has continued to outsell Tesla in Europe in recent months.
    Locked in an intensifying battle in the domestic budget segment with rivals Geely (0175.HK), opens new tab and Leapmotor (9863.HK), opens new tab and others who kept hitting new sales records, BYD reported a drop in global sales for a third straight month in November.

    Reporting by Qiaoyi Li, Zhang Yan and Brenda Goh; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Tomasz Janowski

    Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

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  • Twelve police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, report says

    Twelve police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, report says

    Investigation analysed stacks of police notebooks and VHS cassettespublished at 12:21 GMT

    Judith Moritz
    Special correspondent

    When this investigation into the Hillsborough disaster was launched in 2012, hundreds of staff were…

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  • Data Centers Unlocked: What’s New and What Matters | Insight

    Data Centers Unlocked: What’s New and What Matters | Insight

    Data centers have emerged as the foundational infrastructure powering artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and enterprise technology and are now essential to national digital strategies and private sector innovation. The AI boom has triggered an extraordinary surge in global data center development and is driving a fundamental redesign of facility architecture, site selection and investment strategy.

    Despite ample opportunity in this space, the business environment for data center development is complex and dynamic, encompassing a range of legal considerations and requiring a holistic approach around strategic transactions, regulatory compliance and innovative solutions, with sustainability also a key theme.

    Whether a developer, investor or operator, overview the current data center landscape and deep-dive into key issues covering:

    • The evolving financing and investment landscape
    • Tax considerations across the data center life cycle
    • Design and build as the cornerstone of data center development
    • Power as a critical input and strategic driver in data center planning
    • Data center operations, including managing customer contracts while addressing AI, data and cybersecurity risks, and trade and export control restrictions


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  • New study of dinosaur tracks suggests it walked with a limp

    New study of dinosaur tracks suggests it walked with a limp

    Scientists have shared a new study into this looping section of the dinosaur’s tracks at West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado. One finding is that this dinosaur, alive 150 million years ago, might have had a limp. Image via Paul…

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  • The British public has spoken: ‘Die Hard’ is not a Christmas movie

    The British public has spoken: ‘Die Hard’ is not a Christmas movie

    A New York cop wearing a white tanktop that unaccountably goes from mildly dirty to compltely filthy far too quickly takes down a bunch of vaguely European terrorists at a Christmas party in a Los Angeles skyscraper, while our unlikely hero…

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  • Ukraine targets Russia’s shadow fleet as it steps up drone war – Financial Times

    Ukraine targets Russia’s shadow fleet as it steps up drone war – Financial Times

    1. Ukraine targets Russia’s shadow fleet as it steps up drone war  Financial Times
    2. Ukraine Claims Hit on Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Black Sea Tankers  Bloomberg.com
    3. ‘Drone strikes on tankers cause jump in Black Sea shipping costs’  The Express…

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  • Friends to leave Netflix in UK at the end of the year

    Friends to leave Netflix in UK at the end of the year

    Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter

    Getty Images Actors clockwise from bottom left, Courteney Cox as 'Monica Geller', Matt LeBlanc as 'Joey Tribbiani', Lisa Kudrow as 'Phoebe Buffay', David Schwimmer as 'Ross Geller', Matthew Perry as 'Chandler Bing', Jennifer Aniston as 'Rachel Green' in a 'Friends' group portrait, June 15th 1994.Getty Images

    Friends has been available to watch on Netflix in the UK since 2018

    Oh. My. God. Could we BE any more disappointed?

    That’s how many fans have reacted to the news that the hugely popular sitcom…

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