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[ad_1] NASA’s Perseverance rover made its first trip to Mars, just weeks after landing on the Red Planet. The one-ton robot traveled 21.3 feet (6.5 m) in a mobility test that, according to the space agency, will allow the rover’s systems and instruments to be checked and calibrated. Once Perseverance …

[ad_1] Travelers who show up at an airport without a form stating the reason for their trip face fines of £ 200, the government announced. As of Monday, anyone traveling abroad from England will need to complete and bring a statement to the travel document which can be obtained from …

[ad_1] Key points Live updates Show the latest updates 1614933828 What do we know about variants of the coronavirus as a new strain found in the UK? The variant, which is understood to have originated in the UK, has been designated as an “investigational variant” (VUI) by Public Health England …

[ad_1] Rishi Sunak will pave the way for radical reforms in the stock market to attract more fast-growing companies to go public in the UK, amid growing risk to London’s status as a leading financial center after Brexit. In a development to coincide with the budget on Wednesday, the chancellor …

[ad_1] Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than their battery-electric equivalents, according to a study adding to evidence that moving away from gasoline and diesel cars will bring big net environmental benefits. Only around 30 kg of raw material will be lost during the life cycle …

[ad_1] With spotty Wi-Fi, delayed sound, and chaos at Zoom, the 78th Golden Globes ceremony was a semi-virtual ceremony once again dominated by British stars but marred by technical difficulties and renewed scrutiny over the lack of diversity of the awards. A year after Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Sam Mendes’ …

[ad_1] US government bonds endured another day of strong selling, shaking up the stock market as investors braced for stronger economic growth. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose as much as 0.16 percentage points Thursday to break the 1.5% threshold for the first time in a year. The five-year yield, …

[ad_1] Shares of GameStop more than doubled in trading Wednesday afternoon, surprising those who thought the video game retailer’s share price would stabilize after a fierce rally and sharp slide that disrupted Wall Street in January. Stocks soared nearly 104% during the session where trading was paused multiple times and …

[ad_1] Facebook was “over-enforcing wrong” by removing links to hundreds of non-media organizations in Australia, Nick Clegg admitted, in a blog post advocating the company’s ban on short news stories from social media there. The former UK deputy prime minister, now Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications, said …

[ad_1] The NHS faces legal challenge over its data deal with the controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir, Sky News can reveal. Palantir, who has become famous for his close ties to security services and immigration agencies in the United States, struck his first deal to handle NHS data in March …