A model of Angry Birds character ‘Red’ sits on display inside the reception area of the Rovio Entertainment Oy headquarters in Espoo, Finland, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japanese gaming giant Sega announced Monday it has made a 706 million euro ($776 million) offer for the maker of the
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A US Air National Guardsman has been charged after allegedly registering with a spoof hitman website and agreeing to murder someone for $5,000. Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, is said to have met an undercover FBI agent to collect photos and details of a fictionalised target for him to murder. Prosecutors say he also submitted a
Gerry Hutch has been found not guilty of murdering a man at a Dublin hotel in 2016. The 50-year-old stood trial accused of the murder of David Byrne who was shot six times at a crowded boxing weigh-in event at the Regency Hotel. It was one of the first deadly attacks of the Hutch-Kinahan gangland
One of Vladimir Putin’s biggest critics has been jailed in Russia for 25 years after being found guilty of treason. Vladimir Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and former journalist who holds Russian and British passports, spent years as a politician opposing the Russian president. He was accused of treason and of discrediting the military
S Club 7 star Hannah Spearritt has paid tribute to her bandmate and “first true love” Paul Cattermole. The singers were friends before they started dating during their time in the pop group in the early 2000s, when the band had hits with songs including S Club Party, Reach, and Don’t Stop Movin’. Cattermole was
Sega Sammy, the gaming firm behind Sonic the Hedgehog, has agreed a deal to buy rival Rovio Entertainment – best known for Angry Birds. The pair confirmed that the Japanese firm would pay €706m (£625m) for Rovio just days after takeover talks were revealed. The acquisition comes as Sega seeks to accelerate its growth in
Elon Musk’s SpaceX made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas. The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet (120 m) high, was
The Phantom Of The Opera is no longer in New York – and has taken its final bow after a record-breaking 35-year run on Broadway. The show, which tells the story of a disfigured phantom who haunts a Paris opera house and falls in love with a singer there, was Broadway’s longest-running show, and ended
6:51 PM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson never thought he would tame the half-mile, paperclip-shaped track at Martinsville Speedway. And then came Sunday. Larson passed Joey Logano with 29 laps to go and went on to win his second Cup Series race of the season on a day when NASCAR welcomed back
This morning, Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors unveiled its next-generation EV architecture that will be the backbone to future models going forward. XPeng states the new SEPA 2.0 platform will not only shorten future models’ R&D cycles, but offer a modular, interchangeable, end-to-end solution that will support a multitude of vehicle types – like its
Sales of the sub-$30,000 Chevy Bolt, being assembled here in Orion Township, Michigan, allowed GM to recently pass Ford as a distant No. 2 behind Tesla in EVs. Joe White | Reuters From the headlines, car buyers might think the most important force driving down the cost of electric vehicles is the $7,500 tax credit
Government spending on storing personal protective equipment (PPE) in China increased by £2.35m in the year to January – as households struggle to make ends meet amid the cost of living crisis. According to data revealed by the Labour Party, the taxpayer paid £23.5m to store life-saving protective equipment from February 2021 to January 2022
Barclays is joining the ranks of global investment banks taking the axe to jobs amid a slowdown in dealmaking and stock market flotations. Sky News has learnt that the British lender will this week cut more than 100 roles in its investment bank, with sources saying the layoffs would not be confined to a single
While the main event is still a few weeks away, the Eurovision circus landed in London – bringing with it the loud costumes, odd props and colourful characters. But they’re not in the UK to compete – instead it was part of an unofficial (but widely endorsed), whistle-stop tour of the continent where the acts
In this article VORB SPCE ASTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Virgin Orbit started as a program of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in 2012, before being spun off into a separate company five years later. In the private space race, Virgin Orbit contended its method of launching its rockets — known as “air launch”
Multiple people have been injured and four have been killed in a shooting in Alabama, officials have said. The incident is reported to have taken place at a teenager’s birthday party late on Saturday evening in the city of Dadeville, in Tallapoosa County. It was not immediately known if a suspect was in custody. WRBL-TV
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