“I feel sorry for all these people who’ve spent thousands of pounds going to drama school,” muses Kneecap’s DJ Provai. His bandmate Mo Chara finishes his sentence. “They must be raging after getting all their daddy’s money – thirty grand for their diplomas, and we just mosey on in and maybe get nominated for an
Month: August 2024
BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has revealed she is undergoing treatment for cancer. The star, 46, who presents Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 and has been a regular DJ on BBC channels for many years, thanked her doctors and family as she explained what had happened in a post on Instagram. Sharing the news while
Government borrowing rose to the highest amount since the pandemic in July, official figures show. Not since 2021 has there been a July with such high borrowing, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It means that there was a £3.1bn difference between what the government took in from things like taxes
Barack Obama has warned the sequel is “usually worse” than the first movie as he and Michelle Obama tried to rally their party in the race against Donald Trump. Speaking on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Mr Obama said the country does not need another four years of “bluster” and “chaos”. “We
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 20, 2024, 07:06 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Shakur Stevenson will defend his WBC lightweight title against Joe Cordina
U.S. crude oil futures held steady above $74 per barrel Tuesday, after selling off in the previous session amid demand worries in Asia and cease-fire talks in the Middle East. “We are seeing oil prices mean reverting on the back of frankly a lot more supply but also softer demand,” Francisco Blanch, commodity strategist at
Rivian (RIVN) is losing its vice president of manufacturing, Tim Fallon, to Jeep, Dodge owner Stellantis (STLA) to spearhead its upcoming EV offensive in the US. Rivian loses EV manufacturing boss to Jeep, Ram For the past two years and seven months, Fallon has helped Rivian scale the output of not one but three electric
Labour is pressing ahead with the previous government’s plan to reopen two immigration centres in a bid to achieve the highest rate of removals since 2018. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said detention capacity will be increased with the provision of 290 beds across Campsfield House and Haslar. The former, in Oxfordshire, closed in 2019 while
The British mother who says she held her baby daughter above the waves as the yacht sank near Sicily was sleeping on deck as the storm hit, an Italian doctor has said. Charlotte Golunski was among 22 people on board the Bayesian when a tornado struck on Monday morning, with one dead and another six
Vladimir Putin has paid his first visit to Chechnya in 13 years to visit military volunteers – who he hailed for making Russia “invincible”. Mr Putin’s visit came against the backdrop of Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk region, which shows no signs of abating. But elsewhere in the war – which started after Mr Putin
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday announced a partnership with Condé Nast, in which the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence company’s products, such as ChatGPT and
Luis Miguel Echegaray, ESPNAug 20, 2024, 09:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The domestic European soccer seasons are back, so it’s the ideal opportunity to provide a list of up-and-comers from the top leagues. From somewhat familiar names who have waited patiently for their big moments to young players ready to make their mark in
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, driven by citizen scientists, uncovered an astonishing discovery: an object travelling at a staggering speed of 1 million miles per hour, enough to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational grasp. This hypervelocity object, known as CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, marks the first of its kind identified with the
The US government has confirmed Donald Trump’s claim that Iran tried to hack his presidential campaign and said Tehran has also targeted the Biden-Harris operation. In a joint statement issued on Monday, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it had seen “increasingly aggressive
A pilot scheme scrapping peak-time ScotRail fares will end next month following a “limited degree of success”. Transport Scotland said the trial – subsidised by the Scottish government – cost £40m but “did not achieve its aims” of encouraging more people to swap their cars for rail travel. The scheme began in October last year
Monica Muñoz, top, and Denise Denning place black encapsulation material on solar panels at Elin Energys solar panel manufacturing facility on Thursday, April 25, 2024 in Brookshire. Brett Coomer | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images The Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom across the U.S., mobilizing tens of billions of dollars of investment,
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