Planning bids for new homes rise in England but building remains low, data suggests

Tom GerkenTechnology reporter Jagex Imagine calling your friends, ordering a pizza, and opening up RuneScape on your PC. A lot of people around my age might read those words and be instantly thrown back to the days of dial-up internet, MSN Messenger and Napster. But before you instinctively type the letters “a/s/l” on your keyboard,…

Theo LeggettInternational Business Correspondent Getty The boss of Lamborghini said enthusiasm for electric cars was declining The boss of Lamborghini has said its customers still want “the sound and the emotion” of internal combustion engines, and the company will use them in its cars for at least the next decade. Speaking to the BBC at…

Netflix has offered $27.75 a share, or $82.7bn (£61.2bn) in total, for Warner Bros’ studio and streaming networks – including brands such as Warner Bros, New Line Cinema, and HBO Max – leaving the rest of the firm to be spun off as an independent company.

The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ”objects” had hit a data centre in the UAE, creating ”sparks and fire”. Also on Sunday, AWS said it was investigating power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain.

US President Donald Trump met with oil executives in Washington on Friday, as he pushed for major investments in Venezuela. But no major financial commitments were immediately forthcoming from the meeting, with the head of ExxonMobil warning the South American country was currently “un-investable”. Trump has said he expects big oil companies to direct “at…