Mate Rimac runs an electric car company that sells some of the most exotic machines on the planet – but it all started out with a decidedly unexotic old banger.…
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China: US$4,500 budget electric car takes on Tesla
A budget electric vehicle (EV) selling in China for $4,500 (£3,200) is now outselling Tesla’s more upmarket cars. The compact car is proving a big hit for state-owned SAIC Motor,…
New Zealand: Man survives 14 hours in Pacific Ocean ‘clinging to sea rubbish’
A sailor who fell overboard survived by clinging to a “piece of sea rubbish”, his son has revealed. Vidam Perevertilov spent 14 hours in the water after he fell off…
USA: Hit TV show Frasier to get a 2nd life after 20 years
The hit 1990s US TV show Frasier, which starred Kelsey Grammer as a pedantic psychiatrist with his own radio show, is set to return. Grammer confirmed the show’s revival saying:…
USA: Goldman Sachs boss rejects work from home as the ‘new normal’
Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon has rejected remote working as a “new normal” and labelled it an “aberration” instead. Mr Solomon said the investment bank had operated throughout 2020 with…
Australia: Law to make Google and Facebook pay for news passed
Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms. The news code legislation had been fiercely opposed by the US…
Syria torture: German court convicts ex-intelligence officer
A German court has sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to four-and-a-half years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity. Prosecutors in Koblenz successfully argued that Eyad al-Gharib, 44,…
USA: Bruce Springsteen fined $500 over drinking charge
Bruce Springsteen has been fined $500 (£355) after pleading guilty to consuming alcohol in a New Jersey national park where drinking is banned. The 71-year-old rock star admitted drinking two…
Italy : Landslide pushes hundreds of coffins into the sea
Hundreds of coffins tumbled from their resting place in north-west Italy when a landslide destabilised a 100-year-old cliffside cemetery on Monday. Video showed emergency workers in boats searching for the…
The Drug Bust: Cocaine ‘worth billions’ seized in record Germany and Belgium haul
Customs authorities in Germany and Belgium have seized a record of more than 23 tonnes of cocaine that was destined for the Netherlands. German officials discovered 16 tonnes of the…