A jury in California on Friday awarded $50 million in damages to a Los Angeles delivery driver who was badly burned by a cup of hot tea that spilled into his lap in a Starbucks drive-through in 2020, court records show. The driver, Michael Garcia, 30, received multiple skin grafts and underwent other medical treatments […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. China has announced a plan to boost consumption by increasing people’s income. The move comes a few days after the Communist country set a 2025 GDP target of “around 5%” for this year. […]
Lee Shau-kee, a Hong Kong real estate tycoon who made his immense fortune building tens of thousands of apartments for middle-class descendants of refugees who had fled Communist mainland China, died on Monday. He was 97. His death was announced by the company he founded, Henderson Land Development. It did not say where he died […]
When I returned to my hometown near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in January, the tension was palpable. It reminded me of the second Intifada, which I witnessed firsthand as a child. There was fear and anxiety and an increased sense of uncertainty due to constant attacks by Israeli settlers. Roads to and from […]
Fund manager Crispin Odey has been provisionally banned from working in financial services and fined £1.8m by the UK regulator for a “lack of integrity”. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Mr Odey had attempted to “frustrate” a disciplinary process into sexual harassment allegations against him, and his conduct proved he was “not a fit […]
Conan O’Brien will reprise his Oscar hosting duties next year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday morning, in one of the earliest renewals for an Oscar host. The news comes after Mr. O’Brien received high marks for his work as the emcee of the 97th Oscar telecast, which delivered a five-year […]
A £3bn rescue loan for Thames Water is set to go ahead after an appeal against the deal was dismissed. The troubled firm secured the rescue loan in February, to stave off the prospect of the debt-laden company coming under government control. But a small group of lenders had argued against the terms of the […]
On a recent Friday morning, Daniel, a lawyer in his early 40s, was in a Zoom counseling session describing tapering off lithium. Earlier that week he had awakened with racing thoughts, so anxious that he could not read, and he counted the hours before sunrise. At those moments, Daniel doubted his decision to wean off […]
PA Media No offers have been made to take over Inverness Caledonian Thistle (ICT), its joint administrators have said. The Scottish League 1 club was placed into administration last October after running up large debts. The side was also deducted 15 league points. The administrators, BDO, said potential new owners had raised a number of […]
They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear Security Administration. A half-dozen staff members left a unit in the agency that builds reactors for nuclear submarines. And a biochemist and engineer […]