Markets betting on Biden-Harris win: advisor
Gerber said more companies may pursue stock splits after seeing Apple's and Tesla's shares pop on their split announcements.
The Venice Film Festival is tweaking its sections as it gears up for its upcoming 78th edition in September. After announcing that “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho will preside over the main jury, the Lido on Monday opened up for film submissions and said in a statement that the fest’s Sconfini section — which had […]
Clip of Nathan Apodaca skateboarding while listening to Fleetwood Mac went viral last year
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 18 (ANI): Sevilla FC on Monday finalised a partnership agreement with FC Bengaluru United and Nimida Sports business group -- led by Gaurav Manchanda -- as part of the Spanish football club's expansion plans to grow its brand internationally.
Warehouses looked to be hot property on Monday, boosted by the lockdown online shopping boom, as an investor inked a £45 million deal for a portfolio of sites. Eskmuir Properties said it has bought the portfolio from Legal & General’s industrial property investment Fund. It comprises eight sites spread across the UK, that is let to 78 tenants, including Screwfix and kitchen supplier Howdens.
The infamous blimp of outgoing US President Donald Trump dressed as a baby could soon greet visitors to the Museum on London, which on Monday announced it had acquired the inflatable effigy.
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India’s answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging. Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued at $1.4 billion in 2016, earlier this month announced that it was shutting down Sticker Chat, its messaging app. The startup, founded by Kavin Bharti Mittal, this month pivoted to two virtual social apps called Vibe and Rush, said Mittal, who is the son of telecom giant Airtel’s chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal.
Soccer's world governing body FIFA on Monday rejected Atletico Madrid's appeal against a 10-week sanction against their player Kieran Trippier for breaking betting rules in England, meaning the defender is banned from playing until the end of next month. Trippier was given the sanction by England's Football Association (FA) on Dec. 23 for violating rules forbidding providing information to third parties over his move from Tottenham Hotspur to Atletico in 2019. FIFA then placed an embargo on the ban on Jan. 2 following an appeal by Atletico, who argued they should not be affected by a ban imposed by English authorities as it did not concern them.
Phil Neville is stepping down as England women's team manager with immediate effect, the Football Association (FA) said on Monday. Former Manchester United and England defender Neville, 43, has been talking to David Beckham's Inter Miami and is expected to become their next manager.
Two private hospitals in Thailand have ordered millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines ahead of regulatory approval, adding to government orders of vaccines as the Southeast Asian country tackles a second wave of the virus. "We ordered one million doses of the Sinovac vaccine with an option to buy nine million more," Boon Vanasin, the chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group Pcl, told Reuters.
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More than 600 people have been arrested and troops have been deployed after a third consecutive night of riots in several Tunisian cities, officials said Monday.
Gun rights activists will converge on the Virginia state capital on Monday for an annual demonstration that falls at an especially tense time this year, after the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol and two days before the presidential inauguration. "Lobby Day" has authorities on alert in Richmond, about 110 miles (175 km) south of Washington, D.C., where Democratic President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in on Wednesday, replacing Republican President Donald Trump. Lobby Day takes place in a highly polarized climate, following a year in which anti-racist and white nationalist demonstrators clashed across the United States, and as strident Trump supporters cling to hope he can remain in power.
For several years there has been talk about how to leverage ‘experts’ online. How do you ‘suck their brains’ for information in an efficient manner, whether it be for research into companies or sectors, often for investment purposes. With the pandemic destroying many means of hearing experts - conferences and events for instance - and turning the entire world into a remote working experiment, platforms like these are now far more relevant than they ever were before.
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France is on track to reach its target of vaccinating 1 million people against COVID-19 by the end of January and has enough doses to increase the total to 2.4 million by the end of February, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Monday. During a visit to a vaccination centre in the eastern city of Grenoble, Veran told reporters that France had now set up about 800 such centres. "With the acceleration of the vaccination campaign in retirement homes, we will comfortably reach our goal of 1 million French people vaccinated by the end of this month," he said.
Thai police said on Monday they were investigating a complaint by a political activist who said he had been abducted by a group of unknown men and then questioned inside a van for 12 hours before being dumped on the street. Mongkol Santimetakul, 25, a volunteer guard for the protest movement, said at around 11 p.m. on Saturday on a street near his home in a province south of Bangkok he was bundled into a van by the men who placed a hood over his head and confiscated his phone. He said he was asked about an anti-monarchy sign that was erected by protesters in a nearby area.
Hugh Grant joked that Hurley's new skills should earn her a role in the next 'Paddington' movie.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny demanded media outlets be allowed into a hearing being held in a police station in Moscow on January 18, which he had earlier decried as “illegal”.“I advocate that the process be as open as possible so that all the media have the opportunity to observe this amazing absurdity that is happening here,” Navalny said, according to an automated translation of his remarks from Google. Credit: Alexei Navalny via Storyful
The mother of an infant in Las Vegas, Nevada, had her hands full during bedtime, her son opting to climb all over her instead of settling down to sleep.Footage posted on Instagram on November 8 shows the energetic toddler doing his best to avoid some shuteye as his parents lie next to him.“We removed his crib because he was hurting himself in it, banging his head on the rails,” Sumala Chuencharoenwong, the child’s mother, told Storyful.“We decided to move him to a queen-sized bed with bed rails for toddlers and the best way to keep him comfortable is to co-sleep with him for a couple of hours and then we move to our own bed,” she added.Alas, it seemed the company in bed failed to make the child heavy-eyed on this occasion. Credit: Sumala Chuencharoenwong via Storyful