A year after it launched, Meta’s newest social network has the makings of a viable rival to Elon Musk’s X. With 175 million active users and partnerships with A-list celebrities like Taylor Swift, Threads combines a Twitter-like feed of text, images and videos with the brand-friendly sheen of Instagram. But ahead of a presidential election […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — About 90 minutes after the U.S. men’s national soccer team crashed out of Copa América on Monday night, the U.S. Soccer Federation issued a statement expressing immense disappointment. “Our tournament performance fell short of our expectations. We must do better. We will be conducting a comprehensive review of our performance in […]
7 hours ago By Sophie Law, Charlotte Andrews & Marcus White, BBC News PA Media Hamish had neuroblastoma and was given three months to live A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and “quietly end his life”. Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son […]
As the war enters its 859th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Fighting Russian attacks on the central Ukrainian city of Nikopol killed two women aged 61 and 86, and wounded nine other people, according to regional Governor Serhiy Lysak. The attacks damaged residential housing, educational […]
7 hours ago By Vanessa Buschschlüter, BBC News Getty Images Fishing boats were damaged in Barbados even though it escaped the worst of the hurricane A deadly hurricane which has been tearing through the Caribbean is intensifying as it moves towards Jamaica. Hurricane Beryl is now a category five storm, meaning its winds and storm surges could […]
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation is entering the UK’s highly competitive free, ad-supported video streaming market. Tubi will compete with the likes of Netflix, Disney+, ITVX, Channel 4’s streaming platform as well as the BBC iPlayer. The platform has been quickly gaining market share in the US where, according to Fox, it has almost 80 million […]
Britain’s next government is poised to benefit from easing pressure on household finances after a slowdown in inflation in stores and a fall in fuel prices, but costs remain “too expensive” for many families. Figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) show that annual UK shop price inflation cooled last month to 0.2%, down from […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. Nomura Holdings and its subsidiary, Laser Digital, have concluded a new survey. In the survey, more than half of institutional investors in Japan revealed their plan to invest in digital assets in the […]
Publicly, President Biden’s allies have spent the past several days aggressively downplaying his missteps in Thursday’s debate by assailing the “bedwetting brigade” of anxious Democrats, trumpeting a record influx of campaign donations and noting the long list of incumbents who stumbled during their first debates. Privately, they have worked the phones to reassure nervous donors, […]
Getty Many oil and gas tankers in the Arctic use Heavy fuel Oil to power their engines A ban on the dirtiest and most climate-damaging fuel for ships has come into effect in Arctic waters. Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) is a tar-like, thick but relatively cheap oil that is widely used in shipping around the […]