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Jeff Bezos takes on Elon Musk in $630 billion space race

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Goodbye Gulf of Mexico—Trump says he’s renaming it ‘Gulf of America’

MdDonald’s workers, dressed in their new trendy coffee bar style ambience and design at the Cannon Street branch of McDonalds in the City of London. This is one of the flagship branches for this new design as the corporation takes on the process of ‘re-imaging’ the fast food chain. This redesign, with new colours: khaki, lime, orange and russet, in a vibrant mixture of geometrics, lines and swooshes has been created for McDonald’s by French Designer, Philippe Avanzi. It includes comfortable easy-chairs and stools, drop down lighting and in total, a whole new feel. This is part of a new global strategy to give McDonalds branches in different countries a uniquely local character, both in terms of the decor and some of the food served. The menu has even seen the introduction of sustainably grown coffee, organic milk etc. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

McDonald’s U.K. faces harassment lawsuit as over 700 teenage workers sue the fast food giant

US President Joe Biden speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. Biden presented presidential medals to seven former US Army soldiers and eight public safety officers for acts of bravery that put their own lives at risk. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden set to designate 2 new giant national monuments in California, protecting 850,000 acres as Trump looks to expand drilling

Visitors listen to a presentation during a media tour of the closed ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd. Saldanha Works steel plant in Yzervarkensrug, South Africa, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. ArcelorMittal aspires to revive the mothballed steel plant with green hydrogen, part of a broader strategy by the company to utilize the developing technology. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

European steel giant ArcelorMittal shutters two South African sites—impacting over 3,500 jobs

A farmer picks cotton during harvest in a field in Narvana, Haryana, India, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Farmers in India, the world’s second-largest producer of rice, sugar and cotton, rely on the timing of the monsoon to decide which crops to grow. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Adidas, H&M and The Gap bought cotton grown by children in India, rights group’s report says

Donald Trump, Jr., son of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally in Sanford, North Carolina, on November 3, 2024. (Photo by Grant BALDWIN / AFP) (Photo by GRANT BALDWIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump Jr. visits Greenland just days after the U.S. president-elect announced Washington should take over territory

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto greets journalists before receiving his state guests at the presidential palace in Jakarta on October 21, 2024. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s most populous country, becomes a full member of BRICS, a counterweight to the West

Volkswagen ID.Buzz is displayed during the New York International Auto Show 2024

Germany’s EV sales crash as buyers abandon electric cars in droves

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (C) looks on during a ceremony to mark the re-opening of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on December 7, 2024. Around 50 heads of state and government are expected in the French capital to attend the ceremony marking the rebuilding of the Gothic masterpiece five years after the 2019 fire which ravaged the world heritage landmark and toppled its spire. Some 250 companies and hundreds of experts were part of the five-year restoration project at a cost of hundreds of millions of euros. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

European leaders in France, Norway and Germany hit back against Elon Musk in UK political meddling row

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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech on a plan to reduce NHS waiting times, during a visit to a healthcare provider in Surrey, south-west of London on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Leon Neal / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LEON NEAL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kier Starmer claims Elon Musk ‘not interested in victims’ after billionare attacked PM for handling of historical child rape crimes

Electric vehicles charging Pod Point, Tesco Extra supermarket carpark, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK. (Photo by: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

EV sales reached UK record in 2024, but came at a ‘huge cost’ and are ‘unsustainable’ industry warns

Revellers dressed as wind turbines cheer in front of the Cologne Cathedral as they celebrate the start of the carnival season on November 11, 2024 in Cologne, western Germany. The carnival season usually starts on November 11 at 11:11am. It finishes on Ash Wednesday of the following year with the main festivities happening around Rosenmontag (Rose Monday). (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Renewables set to dominate as UK and Germany hit a clean energy high in 2024

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba holds a New Year’s press conference after visiting Ise Shrine in Mie prefecture on January 6, 2025. Ishiba called for clarity on why US President Joe Biden blocked a controversial USD 14.9 billion deal for Nippon Steel to buy US Steel. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by JIJI PRESS/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

Japan asks Washington to ‘explain clearly’ why Nippon Steel’s bid for U.S. Steel threatens national security

BYTomohiro Osaki and AFP

South Korea’s Acting President Choi Sang-mok (R) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands during a meeting in Seoul on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Lee Jin-man / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LEE JIN-MAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korea fires ballistic missle as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds meetings in Seoul

BYHieun Shin and AFP