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May 24, 2020Every new Volvo car now comes with a limited top speed of 180kph, as Volvo Cars delivers on its promise made last year to introduce such a limitation and goes beyond regulation and legislation to help close the remaining gap to zero serious...
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May 23, 2020United Airlines is introducing United CleanPlus: the company's commitment to putting health and safety at the forefront of the entire customer experience, with the goal of delivering an industry-leading standard of cleanliness. United CleanPlus...
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May 19, 2020A wet road and a sudden evasive maneuver: there was a time when such a situation would frequently have ended in a ditch or against a crash barrier, and not rarely with fatalities or severe injuries. Almost 25 years ago to the day, a remedy was...
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May 7, 2020Airbus and Koniku Inc. have made a significant step forward in the co-development of a solution for aircraft and airport security operations by extending research activities to include biological hazard detection capabilities, as well as chemical...
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April 28, 2020American Airlines is updating and enhancing its cleaning procedures on board and will begin offering personal protective equipment to customers as it continues to prioritize customer and team member well-being in its response to coronavirus...
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April 21, 2020Today an international alliance of UN, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies working to address the root causes of extreme hunger have released a new edition of their annual Global Report on Food Crises.
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April 18, 2020Airbus has achieved the first ever fully automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the year over the Atlantic Ocean, involved an Airbus tanker test aircraft equipped with...
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April 18, 2020As part of BASF’s “Helping Hands” campaign in the fight against the corona pandemic, BASF is donating 100 million protective masks to the Federal Republic of Germany. The company is also donating 1 million masks to the State of...
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April 17, 2020ŠKODA AUTO is increasing its support measures to fight the coronavirus and will be donating 100 ŠKODA OCTAVIAs to social and medical aid agencies in the Czech Republic. In addition, the car manufacturer’s Technical Development department has been...
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April 17, 2020The rapidly spreading Coronavirus pandemic and the travel restrictions imposed worldwide as a result have triggered the return of an unprecedented number of holidaymakers and travellers since mid-March. After just over a month, the repatriation...
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April 15, 2020BRP Inc. (TSX:DOO; NASDAQ:DOOO) has announced a series of additional measures in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. After slowing down and temporarily suspending manufacturing at all our powersports and marine operations sites around the world, we...
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April 14, 2020Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today provided an update on its plans to double the production of its hospital ventilators by May 2020 and achieve a four-fold increase by the third quarter of 2020. This...
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April 13, 2020easyJet cabin crew volunteers will be supporting the NHS ExCeL field hospital to provide vital help as part of the country’s nationwide effort to support frontline clinical staff faced with battling the coronavirus pandemic currently impacting...
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April 11, 2020As the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic continues its global onslaught, the health and safety of our employees, communities and contractors are our utmost priority. We want to share with you the steps the Barrick Hemlo mine is taking to address...
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April 11, 2020George Weston Limited ("George Weston" or the "Company") (TSX: WN) provided an update relating to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 9, 2020As we approach the holiday weekend, I wanted to write on behalf of the Board to thank all our stakeholders who are supporting our Company in challenging times.
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April 8, 2020On Wednesday 04 March 2020 we held a wastewater technical forum in Haydock. It covered the new sewerage adoption arrangements that will be implemented in April, and how it will affect those working on new developments.
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March 30, 2020Leidos UK announced its continued support of The Open University’s Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund. The Scholarship Fund gives disabled veterans across the United Kingdom the opportunity to access life-changing education free of charge....
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March 19, 2020ESET researchers have found a watering hole operation targeting several high-profile Armenian websites. It relies on a social engineering trick — a fake Adobe Flash update — as a lure to deliver two previously undocumented pieces of malware. In...
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