A 311-year-old Stradivarius violin sold for $11.25 million at Sotheby’s on Friday, in a closely watched auction that drew interest from investors, collectors and classical musicians. The violin was made by the famed Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari in 1714, during the so-called golden period of violin making. It was later owned by one of the […]
NEW ORLEANS — Andy Reid has a routine for every Chiefs road game. He gathers the team at the hotel the night before the game and imparts some non-football information to his players. “Every Saturday, he talks about the local cows and what types of burgers we’re going to have,” safety Justin Reid said of […]
Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed. The struggle, captured on videos and photos taken by passengers, began about 40 minutes into […]
Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long will impact the Earth in just under eight years. And the odds, overall, seem to be rising. On Jan. 29, the chances of this asteroid (named 2024 YR4) striking our planet on Dec. 22, 2032, were 1.3 percent. Then […]
Real Madrid will make a move for Arsenal centre-back William Saliba when the transfer window reopens in the summer, while the release clause for Wolverhampton Wanderers forward Matheus Cunha has been revealed. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors, and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s January grades […]
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 […]