Happy 7th birthday Prince George!
From meeting with President Obama in a bathrobe to blowing bubbles on an international tour, Prince George's birthday is celebrated today as he turns seven
From meeting with President Obama in a bathrobe to blowing bubbles on an international tour, Prince George's birthday is celebrated today as he turns seven
Seth Rogen stars in dual leading roles in the pseudo-time travel comedy An American Pickle.
After inflicting Barca's only defeat in their past 13 matches in all competitions, Bilbao are their opponents for the third time this month after the Catalans won 3-2 away in their delayed league fixture on Jan. 6. "We just want to go game-by-game and move up the Liga table, reducing the distance between us and first place," coach Ronald Koeman said after Wednesday's Copa del Rey last-16 victory over Rayo Vallecano. Barca currently sit third in the table, 10 points behind leaders Atletico Madrid having played a game more and can ill-afford to drop any more points if they are to close the gap.
Germany's antitrust regulator said on Thursday it was extending the scope of its abuse proceedings against Facebook related to the links between its Oculus virtual reality products and the social media network. The move comes after legislation took effect earlier this month that sets new rules for "undertakings of paramount significance for competition across markets", the Federal Cartel Office said in a statement. "An ecosystem which extends across various markets – an almost unchallengeable position of economic power – is particularly characteristic in this respect," cartel office chief Andreas Mundt said in a statement.
After inflicting Barca's only defeat in their past 13 matches in all competitions, Bilbao are their opponents for the third time this month after the Catalans won 3-2 away in their delayed league fixture on Jan. 6. "We just want to go game-by-game and move up the Liga table, reducing the distance between us and first place," coach Ronald Koeman said after Wednesday's Copa del Rey last-16 victory over Rayo Vallecano. Barca currently sit third in the table, 10 points behind leaders Atletico Madrid having played a game more and can ill-afford to drop any more points if they are to close the gap.
Former premier Matteo Renzi, a central figure in an Italian government crisis, will meet the head of state on Thursday and tell him whether he is ready to support a new government headed by caretaker Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Renzi triggered Conte's resignation this week when he pulled his Italia Viva party out of the ruling coalition, depriving it of a majority in the upper house Senate and throwing the country into political limbo in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis is worrying Rome's partners and hampering its efforts to put together a recovery plan needed to obtain more than 200 billion euros ($242 billion) of European Union financing to rebuild its coronavirus-battered economy.
The UK's competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebook's purchase of Giphy has a 'realistic prospect' of substantially lessening competition by March 25, it said today, as it continues to scrutinize the acquisition. "The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hereby gives notice pursuant to paragraph (b) of the definition of 'initial period' in section 34ZA(3) of the [Enterprise] Act that it has sufficient information in relation to the completed acquisition by Facebook, Inc of Giphy, Inc, (the Merger) to enable it to begin an investigation for the purposes of deciding whether to make a reference for a Phase 2 investigation," it writes.
Princess Eugenie announced she is expecting a child due early 2021.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $359 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $1.48 per share. Valero Energy shares have climbed roughly 4% since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has stayed nearly flat.
Parts of Sonoma County, California, were covered in rare snow on January 27, according to local media reports, only months after they were ravaged by wildfires.According to the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District, “the Walbridge, Stewarts, Meyers, and Glass fires burned roughly 125,000 acres” during an unprecedented 2020 season.The new year has brought its own extreme weather, this time in the form of damaging storms.Snowfall was recorded “at elevations as low as 1,300 feet”, KTLA said. Elsewhere in the state, flooding and mudslides disrupted transport and displaced locals.A local teenage filmmaker, Chris Kam, used a drone to capture footage of the scene near his home in Healdsburg.Speaking to Storyful, his mother, Antoinette Hartlaub, said, “Snowfall is common in other parts of California that have a historically colder climate, but is not seen very often in Sonoma County.” Credit: Antoinette Hartlaub via Storyful
Arsenal are not sure if Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will be ready to play in their Premier League home clash with Manchester United on Saturday after the striker missed two games due to his mother's illness, manager Mikel Arteta said on Thursday. Aubameyang pulled out of Arsenal's FA Cup fourth-round defeat at Southampton last weekend and was also absent from their 3-1 league win over the same opponents on Tuesday. Arteta was asked about the Gabon forward's availability after the 31-year-old thanked Arsenal for their support and had said he would return home ahead of the United game.
The former Daegu FC forward scored both of his side’s goals in the Asian Champions League final as Ulsan defeated Iran’s Persepolis 2-1 in December in Qatar to win the title for the second time in the club’s history. The 34-year-old finished the competition as joint top scorer with Abderazzak Hamdallah of Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr with seven goals but the Brazilian has decided it is time to move. “I have been here for three years but now it’s time to say goodbye,” Junior said in a video released on Ulsan’s social media accounts.
Prano Bailey-Bond’s psychological horror “Censor,” which opens Sundance’s Midnight section Thursday, is a twisted, bloody love letter to the low-budget horror films of the 1980s. Variety spoke to the young British helmer, who was recently named as one of Variety’s “10 Directors to Watch.” In “Censor,” a young woman, Enid, is seen at work as […]
Sky Sports reported that former England under-21 defender Axel Tuanzebe and France forward Anthony Martial were targeted on Instagram, with several users posting racist comments and symbols on their pictures. Tuanzebe also suffered abuse on Twitter, the report added. "Everyone at Manchester United is disgusted by the racial abuse received by players via social media after last night's game," Manchester United said in a statement https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/man-utd-issue-statement-following-racial-abuse-to-players-on-social-media?utm_source=web_notification&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=muwebsite&utm_content=UNITED%20ISSUE%20STATEMENT.
If the rise of direct-to-consumer businesses has been one of the big e-commerce trends of the last decade, then the growth of startups raising huge rounds to consolidate D2C players, to bring more economies of scale to the model, has definitely been a related theme of the past year. In the latest move, a startup out of Germany called the Berlin Brands Group has announced that it plans to invest €250 million (about $302 million at today's rates) to buy up smaller companies and bring them into its fold. While a lot of the company's would-be competitors in the consolidation race are focusing primarily on the Amazon Marketplace -- leaning on fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to carry out the distribution and logistics -- Peter Chaljawski, the founder and CEO, tells us that it's a different story in its existing target market of Europe.
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The teen who plotted attacks on mosques will not be tried in open court as this could deepen religious divides, said Minister K. Shanmugam.
It was Melbourne dog Goku’s first time on a porous pier, but it won’t be his last. He loved the surprise of the water coming through, his owner said, and was running up and down, “super excited”.Francesca Alves posted footage of Goku’s fun on TikTok on January 26, where she jokingly asked, “Pier or dog water park”?Goku “absolutely loves the beach and water,” Alves told Storyful. Credit: Francesca Alves via Storyful
Portugal is in a terrible phase of the coronavirus pandemic and can hope for only limited help from abroad, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said, as hospital staff warned they were being overwhelmed. With a total of 668,951 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 11,305 deaths, including a record 293 dead on Wednesday, Portugal has the world's highest seven-day average of new daily cases and deaths per million inhabitants. Some hospitals are running out of beds, others see dwindling oxygen supplies, and doctors and nurses are over-stretched.