Bloomberg The UK will generate more energy from low-carbon sources than from fossil fuels this year for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Wind, solar, hydro and nuclear plants provided 48 percent of the nation’s electricity in the first five months of 2019, according to the UK network operator National Grid Plc. Coal, which made up more than 30 ...

Bloomberg Daimler AG cut its profit forecast for the third time in a year, this time blaming the burden of handling longstanding proceedings around diesel emissions a month after a new guard took the helm at the world’s biggest luxury carmaker. The German manufacturer is facing investigations in Europe and the US over allegedly excessive pollution from its diesel vehicles. ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company under siege. The company’s disclosure in September that hackers exploited several software bugs to obtain login access to accounts was tagged as Facebook’s worst security breach ever. An initial estimate that ...