(Reuters) – Electric vehicles were already considered expensive and hard to repair. Now their image could take another hit as rental giant Hertz dumps 20,000 of them, including Teslas, for gas-powered cars. Hertz, the largest U.S. fleet operator of EVs, has blamed the sale on high repair costs and weak …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A new breakaway European soccer competition proposed last month would not really be open to outsiders and would cut the revenues of non-elite clubs by more than half, one of the Super League’s biggest critics said on Tuesday. Javier Tebas, the president of the Spanish league, said …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court on Tuesday sentenced a former senior officer in the National Guard to six years in a prison colony after convicting him of buying equipment unable to protect the bridge which links southern Russia to Crimea, the TASS state news agency reported. TASS said that Colonel …

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Police in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday dispersed a small protest in the capital Kinshasa against the provisional results of the December legislative election, the latest flare-up in tensions over the disputed poll. Around 50 supporters of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an antitrust challenge by Epic Games, maker of the popular video game “Fortnite,” to the way Apple runs its lucrative App Store, handing the software company a setback in its lengthy legal battle against the iPhone maker. The justices …

CARDIFF (Reuters) – Warren Gatland has no ill-feeling towards Louis Rees-Zammit, who dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he quit rugby union to try his hand at American Football just minutes before he was to be named in his Wales’ Six Nations squad. Rees-Zammit, 22, was to become a central …

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Chip design software maker Synopsys said on Tuesday it would buy Ansys in a $35 billion cash-and-stock deal, snapping up the maker of software used in creating products from airplanes to tennis rackets of players like Novak Djokovic. Ansys shares rose 3% in premarket trading. The transaction …

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev said at the Australian Open on Tuesday that he saw no reason to stand down from the ATP Players’ Council ahead of his court case in Germany on physical abuse charges. Zverev, who rejects the allegations, is due to appear before a Berlin court on …

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s highest court on Tuesday rejected a request by French cement maker Lafarge to dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an investigation over how it kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The ruling, which upheld an …

KULAI: The Johor government has set up a technical committee under the Greater Johor Baru agenda to study future flood retention development that will ensure all current and future projects are sustainable. Johor state housing and local government committee chairman Datuk Mohd Jafni Md Shukor said that this was based …