California’s Fair Political Practices Commission will investigate complaints regarding Yu Ben Meng, former investment that is chief of CalPERS, the biggest public U.S. retirement fund. The commission, in a page dated Aug. 11, notified Meng’s lawyer that the agency had gotten
The decree outlined how a government had authorized an extra round of amendments to its initial offer made straight back in April, an action that clinches the deal. Argentina to submit new deal to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Argentina and its main creditor, news reports, teams reached an agreement in theory on Aug. 4 […]
The maker of the popular game Fortnite launched a legal challenge to Apple and its practice of taking a 30 per cent cut of app revenues, after the game was thrown out of the App Store for trying to get round the policy. Epic Games on Thursday introduced its own payment mechanism for players making […]
The Chinese search giant Baidu’s sales continued to shrink in the second quarter as China’s economic recovery failed to bring back advertisers. The Beijing-based company’s reported revenue fell 1 per cent year on year to Rmb26bn (about $3.8bn), ahead of the Rmb25.8bn forecast by analysts. Still, it marks an improvement after China’s coronavirus lockdown caused […]
Only one in five NHS trust leaders in England believe the government has taken the right approach to testing for Covid-19, according to a survey, as a growing number of experts raise concern that the current strategy is not robust enough to prevent a resurgence of the virus in the autumn. And only one-third of […]
In just 10 days, two public bodies — the Home Office and South Wales Police — were pushed to suspend or review their use of algorithms to facilitate decision making (“Home Office drops ‘biased’ visa algorithm”, August 5, and “Police use of facial recognition breaches human rights law, London court rules”, August 12). The ad […]
Boris Johnson has approved the gradual reopening of theatres, concert venues and sports arenas as the final sectors of the English economy still closed by Covid-19 were allowed to return to life. Bowling alleys, skating rinks and casinos will be able to reopen from this weekend, while beauty salons, spas and barbers will be able […]
A-level pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their results on Thursday morning without having sat exams due to the coronavirus pandemic. Across the three nations the number of A and A* grades rose by 2.4 percentage points compared with last year, up from a 1 percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019. However, […]
The Philippines has said it will launch clinical trials of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine after the country endorsed the controversial jab, as President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to be one of the first injected with it. Mr Duterte’s spokesman said on Thursday that trials would begin in October and, if they were successful, the Sputnik V vaccine […]
The International Energy Agency has revised down its forecasts for oil consumption this year and next as a recovery in global demand slows. The Paris-based agency said global oil demand would average 91.9m barrels a day in 2020, down 8.1m b/d year on year and 140,000 b/d lower than last month’s forecast. The IEA’s 2021 […]