UK December car production hits ten-year high, driven by Jaguar Land Rover
The UK produced 109,000 vehicles in December 2014, its best December in ten years. Production was 27% higher than in the same month in 2013.
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft readying for huge Pluto photo shoot
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally nears its long-awaited encounter with Pluto, the first of many approach phases that will conclude with the first close-up...
Our earliest primate ancestor lived in trees and looked like shrews
When we think of our earliest primate ancestors we do not think of tree-dwelling creatures that looked like squirrels or shrews and weighed less...
Speed of light slowed down by Scottish scientists who changed shape of photons
Scottish scientists say they slowed down the speed of light in free space for the first time by applying a mask to an optical...
Low interest rates may not last, Marc Carney warns investors
Record-low interest rates may not last as long as investors expect, Bank of England governor Marc Carney warned in a session with other financial...
Box Inc. shares soared by over 65% in public debut
Box Inc shares soared by more than 65% on its first day of trading.
The company had an IPO of $14 and its shares climbed...
Falling gas prices helped slow Canada’s inflation rate to 1.5 per cent
The slump in global oil prices has helped ease Canadian inflation.
Last month lower gas prices helped slow the annual inflation rate to 1.5 per cent,...
US existing home sales fell by 3.1 percent in 2014
The National Association of Realtors posted a report on January 23 showing that existing home sales rose by 2.4 percent to an annual rate...
SpaceX drops lawsuit against the US Air Force
SpaceX has dropped its lawsuit against the US Air Force. Elon Musk’s spacecraft company claimed that the US Air Force unfairly awarded a contract to a...
Inmarsat launching “world’s first” high-speed mobile broadband service
The British satellite company Inmarsat is about to offer the “world’s first” high-speed mobile broadband service - Global Xpress.
On February 1 the Inmarsat-5 F2...