LONDON (Reuters) – For Big Oil, coffee and chocolate could be the new black gold.FILE PHOTO: General view shows a BP petrol station in Kloten, Switzerland October 3, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File PhotoUnder pressure from investors and governments alike to cut emissions, major European oil companies are ploughing billions into renewable energy but are struggling to…
The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Marina Hyde in The Guardianon new rulesWho cares about jobs and experts? Suddenly, Brexit’s snake-oil salesmen do“Oh dear. I see Michael Gove now gives a toss about experts. And I see Steve Baker now…
The New Mexico governor’s office made sure to alert The New York Times before the big announcement last year that a public college education would soon be free for all residents.Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said New Mexico, notoriously poor and almost last in state education rankings, would be the first state to take the step,…
On today’s episode of “Hold My Beer and Watch This!”, a Kentucky man on his way home from work last week saw several police cars with lights flashing surround a vehicle in a McDonald’s parking lot. As he approached the scene, he parked his car about 50 feet away, pulled out his phone, and decided…
Less than 24 hours since the polls closed in the 2020 general election, Tichina Arnold couldn’t stop watching news coverage. “I am an avid news watcher, so I was up till 2:30 a.m.,” says the star of CBS comedy The Neighborhood (in which she stars opposite Cedric the Entertainer, Max Greenfield, and Beth Behrs). And…
MONTREAL — Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator’s initial brush-off of the issue as evidence of indifference to a crisis. Outside of Quebec, the angry debate may have seemed a tempete in a teapot, if it…
Razaq Ahmed, Co-founder and CEO of CowryWise, is no small fish in the fintech space – an industry that is fast growing to compete with the banking industry. This is more so, as Cowrywise gains even more popularity among the emerging generation who have realized that the benefits of subscribing to classic investment schemes might…
Img source: unsplash.com With the growing popularity of smokable Hemp flowers, some people might have forgotten the reasons for which they started. After all, the medicinal benefits are the primary benefit of this plant. Of course, it is so pleasant to smoke that some people can easily forget about that. Just to make sure that…
Patrick Ryan | USA TODAY Spoiler alert! Contains major details about Tuesday’s season premiere of ABC drama “Big Sky.” ABC’s only new fall drama, “Big Sky,” launched with a bang Tuesday, leaving one of its main characters with a bullet in their head. Based on C.J. Box’s 2013 novel “The Highway,” the thriller (Tuesdays, 10 EST/PST) marks the…
Low-dose omega-3 fatty acids offered no cardiovascular benefit over corn oil placebo in two randomized trials of high-risk patients, resurfacing old questions about why REDUCE-IT managed a positive result with icosapent ethyl (Vascepa). In the STRENGTH trial, prescription omega-3 carboxylic acids (Epanova), a mix of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), didn’t lower cardiovascular…
