Heineken plans to slash up to 100 UK jobs as it cuts 8,000 staff worldwide

Heineken plans to slash up to 100 UK jobs as it cuts 8,000 staff worldwide after losing £178million due to the coronavirus pandemic The beer giant has announced plans to cut 10 per cent of its workforce globally  It comes after sales plunged due to the closure of pubs and bars in the pandemic World’s … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX reveals Starlink satellite internet network has ‘over 10,000 users’ worldwide

SpaceX began its public beta program for its Starlink satellite internet last October and according to a public filing, the service now has ‘over 10,000 users in the US and abroad.’ ‘Starlink’s performance is not theoretical or experiment… [and] is rapidly accelerating in real time as part of its public beta program,’ SpaceX wrote in … Read more

UK vaccine minister says most 4,000 Covid variants exist worldwide

Oxford University and AstraZeneca plan to have a new Covid vaccine ready by the autumn to tackle new variants of the coronavirus, they confirmed yesterday.   Growing evidence suggests that a mutation first found in the South African variant of the virus, and now cropping up elsewhere, can reduce how well current vaccines work because it … Read more

More than 100 MILLION people worldwide have had COVID-19

More than 100 MILLION people worldwide have had COVID-19 and over 2.1 million have died since the first case was reported 391 days ago The global coronavirus case count surpassed 100 million on Tuesday afternoon More than 2.1 million people have died of COVID-19 across the globe  The first reported case was just over a … Read more

One in four wild bee species worldwide ‘haven’t been seen since the 1990s’

A quarter of known bee species in the wild haven’t appeared in public records since the 1990s, a shocking new study reveals.  Argentinian researchers used a publicly available database on specimen collections and observations, complemented by citizen-science efforts.  Despite a large increase in the number of records available, 25 per cent fewer species were reported between … Read more

Davos organiser ridiculed over claims it predicted worldwide pandemic

Davos organiser ridiculed over claims it had warned about the dangers of a worldwide pandemic for over a decade By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:55 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:55 GMT, 19 January 2021 The organiser of the annual Davos summit faced ridicule after claiming it has spent more than … Read more

Instagram experiences a worldwide outage that left thousands unable to access the desktop site

Instagram experiences a worldwide outage that left thousands unable to access the desktop site or smartphone app with some believing the ‘hate speech haven’ was taken down Instagram outage started around 5pm ET and lasted to roughly 7pm ET Issues were plaguing users across the world – mainly the app and desktop site  The desktop … Read more

Instagram is DOWN: Worldwide outage leaves thousands unable to access the desktop site or app 

Instagram is DOWN: Worldwide outage leaves thousands unable to access the desktop site or smartphone app Instagram is experiencing an outage that started around 5pm ET Issues are plaguing users across the world – mainly the app and desktop site  The desktop site is showing an ‘error’ message and the app will not refresh  By Stacy … Read more

The most popular European baby names worldwide

Who needs Olivia and Oliver! The most popular European baby names worldwide are Maria for girls and José for boys – with both most prevalent in Brazil Most popular European girls name is Maria with 61,147,219 babies worldwide    José is the most common European baby boy name with nearly 30 million OnBuy revealed 71% … Read more

Eco warrior Ursula von der Leyen used private jets on nearly half her worldwide missions

Ursula von der Leyen has been accused of hypocrisy for using private jets on nearly half her worldwide missions. The European Commission chief has touted a new ‘green deal’, insisting member states must go carbon-neutral by 2050. But a Daily Mail analysis reveals she ordered ‘air taxis’ for seven of her 16 official trips since … Read more