Poland has summoned the French ambassador after the country’s prime minister was called a “far-right anti-Semite” by Emmanuel Macron. The comments came after Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki compared the French president’s phone calls with Vladimir Putin to negotiating with Hitler. Mr Macron is a day away from France’s presidential election – where his main rival
Month: April 2022
It’s a dramatic sight. At the heart of a bustling conference hall, steam billows from a replica volcano emblazoned with Bitcoin 2022’s logo. For attendees, it’s a symbol of the cryptocurrency’s future ambitions – and shows how far Bitcoin has come since it launched in 2009. Image: A 3,000lb statue of a bull was unveiled
Jennifer Lopez has announced she will tie the knot with Ben Affleck, 18 years after the couple called off their wedding. The singer and actress, 52, revealed she was engaged for a second time to Hollywood star Affleck in her online newsletter, OnTheJLo. She teased how she had a “major announcement” in a post to
At a community kitchen in Lambeth, south London, a team of volunteers aren’t just serving up hot three course vegetarian meals. They are watching the cost of living catastrophe begin to bite. The project run by FoodCycle – a charity which turns surplus from the shops into menus for people in need – is in
The owner of the Cannes Lions global advertising festival is plotting a £1.5bn break-up that would see part of the company shift its stock market listing across the Atlantic to New York. Sky News has learnt that Ascential, which has a market capitalisation of £1.49bn, is working with investment bankers on plans to demerge its
A UK-born dog breeder has died after his van became submerged in floods on the outskirts of Sydney. Father-of-two Tony Ikin was on his way to the Royal Easter Show, which is being officially opened by the Princess Royal on Saturday, when he got caught up in rising floodwaters. The 68-year-old was reportedly a well-known
A Maoist cult leader who raped followers and held his daughter captive for three decades has died in prison. Aravindan Balakrishnan, known as Comrade Bala, carried out a “brutal” campaign of violence and “sexual degradation” against women over decades, a court heard. The 81-year-old died in custody at HMP Dartmoor on Friday, the Ministry of
12:31 AM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Brandon Jones overtook Ty Gibbs on the last lap of a two-lap sprint to the finish and won at Martinsville Speedway on Friday night for his fifth career victory, and one that set off a brawl on pit road when it was over. On the final restart,
Every day for the past five days a young woman has stood by the pulverised ruins of a tower block waiting for news about her mother, aunt and cousin. A Russian airstrike on the building a month ago sliced it in half, obliterating the side where Anna Matviienko’s family had been staying. She had been
8:04 PM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Chase Elliott won the pole Friday for the Saturday night race at Martinsville Speedway. The defending NASCAR Cup Series champion and current co-leader turned a fast lap at 96.151 mph in the new Next Gen cars to end co-leader Ryan Blaney’s string of three consecutive poles. Blaney
Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the farthest astronomical object yet discovered: HD1, a galaxy candidate estimated to be 13.5 billion light-years away. That’s an incredible 100 million light-years away from the current farthest galaxy, GN-z11. HD1 shines brightly in ultraviolet light, indicating that the galaxy is teeming with activity. As a result,
In this article TSLA Elon Musk speaks at the “Cyber Rodeo,” a grand opening event for Tesla’s new factory in Austin, Texas. On Thursday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke at a grand opening event for the electric vehicle maker’s new $1.1 billion factory near the Austin airport in Texas. At the event, he spoke
In this article TSLA Founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory, which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker, in Sparks, Nevada. James Glover II | Reuters Tesla may start production of a humanoid robot known as Optimus as early as next year, CEO Elon
Cryptocurrency was initially created to sidestep old institutions – and banks may finally be feeling themselves get disrupted, Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said. Known for her high risk high reward strategy, Wood told CNBC’s “Crypto World” Thursday that the amount of interest investors are showing in DeFi, or decentralized finance, applications could threaten the
A man accused of shooting and seriously wounding Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stealing her two French bulldogs has been freed from jail by mistake. James Howard Jackson was being held on an attempted murder charge but was released from a jail in Los Angeles “due to a clerical error”, a sheriff’s department said. The
The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space. NASA has hailed the three-way partnership with Axiom and SpaceX as a key step towards commercializing the region of space known as “Low Earth Orbit,” leaving the agency to focus on
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