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Despite the surge in renewable energy additions, the world is not yet on track to reach the goal of tripling renewables capacity by 2030, according to the Renewables 2024 report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday. Global renewable capacity is expected to grow by 2.7 times by 2030, surpassing countries’ current ambitions by nearly 25%. But it still falls short of tripling, said the agency advocating for a swift move away from fossil fuels. While climate and energy security... Читать дальше...

Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, October 9th

When we moved to the small town of Canton, North Carolina, last fall, we heard stories about flooding. Living in the mountains spells unpredictability. In 2021, Tropical Storm Fred flooded the river that runs through our city, destroying significant portions of the downtown area. Some homes and businesses were lost. So when we heard that Read more...

TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) – Iranian 14-year-old table tennis player Benyamin Faraji defeated world No. 1 Wang Chuqin and made history in the 2024 Asian Table Tennis Championships.

Everytown for Gun Safety and the Senate Majority PAC launched a $4 million media campaign Wednesday across Michigan and Pennsylvania targeting Senate Republican candidates Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and former Bush aide Dave McCormick (R), over their stances on gun safety laws and abortion bans. “From saying they supported national abortion bans to their opposition...

How air traffic control flew into crisis  The Telegraph

The legendary investor has been reducing his 13-year-old stake in BofA. It's the most recent instance of Buffett profiting from a big bet on a troubled financial institution.

Bannon, a self-declared general of global populists, wants to break the world order. And he’s tapped into something much bigger than Trumpism.

What's it like using the camera system co-engineered by vivo and ZEISS? Watch this to find out.

The spring 2025 accessory trends follow the season's call for individuality and above all, for having fun.

Tottenham Hotspur are thought to be in need of a new left-back in the coming transfer window, and one of the club’s top targets in... The post Patrick Dorgu can join a ‘top club’ amid links with Spurs, Lecce director admits appeared first on Spurs Web.

Pigeon Lake farmer Ryan Mason tells the CBC's Andrea Huncar about the work he's doing to make farming more inclusive — and why it's important for the future.

RUH was issued a notice of contravention from Occupational Health and Safety on Oct. 2 stemming from overcapacity and the resulting risks to workers.

The Child Witness Centre in Kitchener took a hit after the MeToo Movement and COVID-19; for the first time ever, they introduced a waitlist for children needing their services. Now, though, they're recovering - and it's showing in the numbers.

A group of western Manitoba parents who are frustrated by a lack of access to affordable child care are working to raise almost $500,000 to get a much-needed daycare in their community.

His mom secretly signed him up for try-outs to discover future Olympians and now 18-year-old Jesse Plante is training in Calgary to be a skeleton athlete.

If you've ever had a less-than-ideal neighbour who you didn't see eye-to-eye with, you may just giggle at this woman's petty revenge.

Money Saving Expert, which was founded by Martin Lewis in 2003, is urging many people to act by the end of the month.

“Where has this Kamala Harris been all along?” That was the question Time magazine posed three weeks after the vice president replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. Harris, author Charlotte Alter noted, had been “underestimated” by her party as vice president; stories about her lackluster performance, often borne aloft on the strength of anonymous Democratic “insiders” with quotes at the ready, had been a mainstay during her time as Biden’s veep. As the Democratic nominee... Читать дальше...

Last Friday before dawn, I kept waking up to the sound of trees snapping like broken bones. Every so often, the house shook. It felt like a semi was backing into the living room wall. Each violent shudder made me certain the house was hit. It wasn’t. We were lucky. Other homes were not. And neither was my art studio.

Despite his extraordinary success, Ta-Nehisi Coates still carries the habits of the blogger in his writerly DNA. Although he got his start as a journalist at the Washington City Paper in the 1990s under the tutelage of David Carr while still an undergraduate at Howard University, Coates came into his own when he joined The Atlantic as a blogger and reporter in 2008. This was six years before his landmark article “The Case for Reparations” crashed The Atlantic’s website and changed the national... Читать дальше...

We live in the age of AI, goes the common refrain. The phrase can be found in the titles of books and in YouTube videos by public figures as far-ranging as the late Henry Kissinger and Robert Downey Jr. It seems as though everyone is talking about generative artificial intelligence models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E—capable of producing realistic writing, photos, audio, and even code—and wondering what they mean for our future. If our intellectual, social, and professional lives are in for... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's insinuation that Latino migrants have "bad genes" is helping lay the groundwork for a proto ethnic-cleansing project.

The sergeant suggested the victim could go on a date with her stalker and later told her, "You should consider what you're wearing."