At the World Economic Forum in Davos in mid-January, Elon Musk announced that Tesla and SpaceX plan to achieve an annual solar manufacturing capacity of 100 gigawatts within three years. Photo: IC Photo Representatives for Elon Musk recently toured major Chinese solar manufacturing facilities to evaluate capacity and technology for the billionaire’s ambitious energy plans, triggering a sharp rally...
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in mid-January, Elon Musk announced that Tesla and SpaceX plan to achieve an annual solar manufacturing capacity of 100 gigawatts within three years. Photo: IC Photo Representatives for Elon Musk recently toured major Chinese solar manufacturing facilities to evaluate capacity and technology for the billionaire’s ambitious energy plans, triggering a sharp rally in the sector’s stocks. On Wednesday, shares of Jinko Solar Co. Ltd. ( 688223.SH ) and Jolywood (Suzhou) Sunwatt Co. Ltd. ( 300393.SZ ) soared 20% at one point to their daily limits. Other industry heavyweights, including Trina Solar Co. Ltd. ( 688599.SH ), JA Solar Technology Co. Ltd. ( 002459.SZ ), TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co. Ltd. ( 002129.SZ ) and Longi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. ( 601012.SH ), posted gains ranging from 3% to 10%.
George Clarke’s Building Home 8pm, Channel 4 The celebrity architect returns to meet people taking on huge building projects for powerful personal reasons. He starts in Derbyshire, where married couple Lauren and Lee have inherited an old cottage from Lauren’s beloved grandparents in Matlock Bath. It’s going to need a complete remodel of rooms and a lot of wall demolition – but is her attachment t...
George Clarke’s Building Home 8pm, Channel 4 The celebrity architect returns to meet people taking on huge building projects for powerful personal reasons. He starts in Derbyshire, where married couple Lauren and Lee have inherited an old cottage from Lauren’s beloved grandparents in Matlock Bath. It’s going to need a complete remodel of rooms and a lot of wall demolition – but is her attachment to the home enough to stick with such a mammoth project? Hollie Richardson Spain With Michael Portillo 8pm, Channel 5 Vintage tram rides, almond farming and a fair bit of eating are on Portillo’s itinerary as he hits Mallorca, starting in Palma. He then heads north, near the Tramuntana mountains, where he fuels up on an open sandwich called pamboli and ensaïmada, a Jewish pastry. HR The Apprentice 9pm, BBC One The Sugar babies take on the hazardous if potentially lucrative children’s story and audiobook market, a field where reputations are rocket-boosted – or cancelled. Which outcome will it be for the team that plumps for disgusting toilet humour? And will their rival camp’s story about a zebra earn them their stripes? Ali Catterall Dragons’ Den View image in fullscreen Hungry for business … the Dragons. Photograph: BBC Studios/Simon Pantling 8pm, BBC One Would you use skincare made from waste tomato ketchup and oranges? Former Charlotte Tilbury founding team member and part-time professional psychic medium Danielle is convincing (and glowing) in the day’s first pitch. Plus, hungry for more business, ex-footballer Gary Neville returns as the guest Dragon. HR Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm, Channel 5 There’s a horribly simple tragedy in the story of Dave, who lives alone on a canal boat near Macclesfield, Cheshire: he moved there after the sudden loss of his wife 10 years ago and his grief is still palpable. Ben gently extracts the story of a man using nature to recover from an awful lot of bad luck. Jack Seale FBI 9pm, Sky Witness Season seven of Dick Wolf’s drama ha...
Did you know that the largest initial public offering in 2025 was a boring medical supply company based in Chicago? But, boring can be beautiful, and Medline ( MDLN ) looks primed and ready to continue delivering on its history of rapid, profitable sales growth. Medline bills itself as "the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care." It boa...
Did you know that the largest initial public offering in 2025 was a boring medical supply company based in Chicago? But, boring can be beautiful, and Medline ( MDLN ) looks primed and ready to continue delivering on its history of rapid, profitable sales growth. Medline bills itself as "the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care." It boasts 335,00 products and 33 manufacturing facilities in more than 100 countries. 95% of customers here in the United States can receive next-day delivery. It therefore isn't much of an exaggeration to consider Medline the Amazon ( AMZN ) of medical and surgical ("medsurg") products. Hospitals, surgery center, and physicians are among the main users of Medline's medical kits, surgical gloves, wound care, and lab supplies. A key competitive advantage is its namesake Medline Brand products, which count as private label and help boost margins. By serving as both the manufacturer and distributor, it gets to keep the margin another reseller might demand to get its products to market. Continue reading
It was while researching the area around the old oil refinery site that he stumbled upon a collection of houses that looked like they would have been expensive, with a "quaint cottage-style feel", but had been left to decay badly.
It was while researching the area around the old oil refinery site that he stumbled upon a collection of houses that looked like they would have been expensive, with a "quaint cottage-style feel", but had been left to decay badly.
What do you do if you fall 40 feet on to hard-packed snow? If you're a Winter Olympian, you pick yourself up and try again. There is a fine line between success and failure in winter sports, where a few millimetres when landing difficult tricks on snow can make the difference between a medal or serious injury. Dealing with the fear of what might happen if things go wrong is just as important for a...
What do you do if you fall 40 feet on to hard-packed snow? If you're a Winter Olympian, you pick yourself up and try again. There is a fine line between success and failure in winter sports, where a few millimetres when landing difficult tricks on snow can make the difference between a medal or serious injury. Dealing with the fear of what might happen if things go wrong is just as important for an elite Winter OIympic athlete as honing any other skill of their craft. The jeopardy is real as athletes heading to the Milan-Cortina Games push the limits of what is physically possible in their sports while pushing themselves out of their comfort zones. "The biggest challenge of my sport is definitely overcoming the fear," says freestyle skier and Team GB Winter Olympic medal hopeful Zoe Atkin, who is preparing for her second Winter Games. The 23-year-old competes in ski halfpipe, where competitors drop into a 22-foot deep pipe and complete as many tricks as they can while jumping as high out of the halfpipe as possible. They are judged on the amplitude - the height they reach - as well as the difficulty of the tricks and how well they have executed them. Stanford University student Atkin is studying symbolic systems in the United States. It has aided in her quest to emulate older sister Izzy and win an Olympic medal. "Symbolic systems is interdisciplinary. It's a lot to do with computer science as well as cognitive science. It's studying machines that simulate the brain. "Being able to understand fear from a biological process has helped me on the slopes," she says. For Atkin, fear is at its lowest, maybe unexpectedly, on competition day. "That's just nervousness around the result and performing to your best, which is easier to combat," she tells BBC Sport. "I do meditation in the morning, to focus on the now. "The fear comes in training; when you are practising something you are not familiar with, that is when the uncertainty comes in. "When a spectator watches a sport...