Two of Britain’s biggest business groups are warning that economic growth will have slowed in the second quarter due to political instability and rising costs.

“With that plan, it was more of a transparency document, not only for council to know what staff is doing, but certainly for the citizens, so they could see what the city is doing,” she said.

When the monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris on the evening of May 21, Charles Lindbergh becomes the person to fly over the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. Lindbergh would become one of the heroes of the age. His feat fires the imagination of aspiring aviators about the commercial possibilities of flight. Lindbergh would stay in the news, but for regrettable reasons. A strong advocate for American isolationism in the 1930s, he is criticized for his admiration of Nazi Germany’s aircraft industry. Also, his son would be killed during a bungled kidnapping attempt in 1932.

STEP 3 To create decorative detail on top of posts, use mitre saw to cut 12mm off all corners on one end.

Fact: Most PGA and LPGA Tour players hit their drives and iron shots more accurately to their targets (on a percentage basis) than they do their wedge and short-game shots. My six original professionals were no exception. Discovering the statistically significant importance that the short game had on scoring led me to my basement workshop, where I created the first 60-degree wedge — a dedicated scoring tool. I took a 55-degree sand wedge (the most lofted club on Tour at the time), cut off the hosel, welded it back on with five degrees more loft, and adjusted the bounce.

Dolly the Sheep enters the annals of bioengineering when scientists at Scotland’s Roslin Institute become the first to not only successfully clone a mammal, but also the first to do so using an adult cell rather than an embryonic one. After 277 so-called cell fusions that created 29 embryos, the teams managed to turn an udder cell into a nearly complete biological carbon copy of the sheep from which it came.

With an initial aim of becoming an online bookstore, Jeff Bezos and a handful of angel investors launch Amazon.com, just as e-commerce is about to take off . Twenty-four years later, after expanding from books to the so-called "Everything Store" and growing a business selling cloud services to companies like Netflix and Instagram, Bezos has become the world’s richest man. Amazon.com, meanwhile is racing with Apple to become the world’s first trillion-dollar American company.

Thunderstorm potential remains on Saturday and Sunday, with a break Monday before the risk for severe storms rises Tuesday through Thursday as a cold front approaches the area, and an upper level storm system moves across the central Plains.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a probe into how tech giants such as Facebook and Google are dominating the UK’s digital ad market.

After winning in a landslide against Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, amassing in 365 electoral votes and 53% of the popular vote, Barack Obama is sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States. Obama inherits the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but with his party holding majorities in both houses of Congress at the time, the president is able to pass a stimulus package and his signature Affordable Care Act in March 2010.

A protester dressed as a character from “The Handmaid’s Tale” walks back to her car in May after participating in a rally against restrictions on abortion rights in Montgomery, Ala. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

The electrical architecture has been upgraded to allow for four-level adjustment compared to the GT4, including the ABS, traction control and electronic stability control.