Will Smale Business reporter, BBC News Chapoutier French winemaker Maxime Chapoutier wants to help shake up the industry Winemaker Maxime Chapoutier would be arrested if he tried to sell two of his newest wines in his native France. “There would likely be outrage about these wines in France, and that would be a good thing,” […]
Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, slipped into the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare, and he left without a single public photo taken of the two. Two weeks earlier, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, had a lengthy lunch with […]
PA Media/Neil Robinson Jeremy Clarkson acquired the pub last year Police warned people to avoid the area around Jeremy Clarkson’s pub on Saturday morning because of pony and trap races nearby. The former Top Gear presenter’s establishment, known as The Farmer’s Dog, in Asthall, near Burford in Oxfordshire, opened to the public in August. Due […]
NEW ORLEANS — Spring 1982. Sixteen seconds left in the NCAA final, and a skinny freshman from North Carolina buries a jumper that delivers a championship and changes his life. He showed up in New Orleans that week as Mike Jordan. He left as Michael. By that point, the sprawling steel building that provided the […]
Adrienne Murray Business reporter Reporting fromQaqortoq, Greenland BBC Mining firm boss Eldur Olafsson says Greenland can supply the minerals the West needs for “decades” President Donald Trump has said he thinks the US will gain control of Greenland, underlining his persistent claim on the Arctic island, on one occasion pointing to “economic security” as the […]
At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda. But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an […]
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Feb 8, 2025, 08:53 AM ET Manchester United winger Antony continued his fine start to life on loan at Real Betis with his first goal for the LaLiga side during Saturday’s game at Celta Vigo and won MVP for the second game in a row. The 24-year-old opened the scoring at […]
The clubby insular world of corporate law has entered the culture war. First, Elon Musk started railing against Delaware, which for more than a century has been known as the home of corporate law, after the Delaware Chancery Court chancellor, Kathaleen McCormick, rejected his lofty pay package last year. Eventually he switched where Tesla is […]
Theo Leggett Business correspondent Getty Images The expansion of Heathrow Airport has been backed by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who is hoping investment in a third runway, along with a series of other transport projects, will drive economic growth in the UK. Reeves has said expansion of the UK’s biggest airport is “badly needed” and could […]
Here is my annual critical ranking of the Super Bowl commercials. This is the pregame edition, with all the available national ads that I could track down; the list will be updated after Sunday’s game. The trends so far? Nothing controversial, as you would expect, but also — and perhaps for associated reasons — very […]