TikTok’s founder Zhang Yiming has become China’s richest man with a fortune of almost $50bn (£38bn). Dubbed the “short video king”, the 41-year-old topped the Hurun China Rich List for the first time with $49.3bn (£37.9bn). Mr Yiming stepped down as chief executive of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, in 2021. He is the 18th individual
Month: October 2024
D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Oct 29, 2024, 10:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions What a season it’s been for Zheng Qinwen. Entering last week’s 500-level Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, the 22-year-old had already won Olympic singles gold and the title in Palermo, and reached the final at the Australian Open and at the 1000-level event
Oscar-nominated actress Teri Garr, best known for her roles in Young Frankenstein and Tootsie, has died. Garr, who also starred in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, died at the age of 79, her manager said on Tuesday. She appeared in three episodes of Friends in 1997 and 1998 as Phoebe Abbot, the estranged birth
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will promise to “invest, invest, invest” in Labour’s first budget for 15 years. Ms Reeves – who is set to stand up in the Commons just after 12.30pm on Wednesday – will also give a pledge that “working people won’t face higher taxes in their payslips”. However, she will clarify that Labour’s
China is starting onn an ambitious plan to make its Tiangong space station better. They aim to increase the station’s operational capabilities. Tiangong, China’s orbital outpost, has been fully operational since November 2022, following the addition of the Mengtian science module. The space station, which features a three-module T-shape design, is currently functioning in low
U.S. crude oil rose more than 1% on Tuesday, one day after posting the worst daily loss in two years. Energy traders were relieved Monday after Israel’s long anticipated retaliatory strikes on Iran last Friday spared the Islamic Republic’s oil and nuclear facilities. The benchmark U.S. crude oil contract sold off more than 6%, or
The minimum wage for those aged 21 years and over will rise by 6.7% to £12.21 – with pay for those aged 18 to 20 set to go up by 16.3% to £10 an hour. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed the increases ahead of Wednesday’s budget, and they will take effect from April 2025. The
Open Extended Reactions With 20 days of the 2024-25 NHL season in the books, there has been no shortages of twists and turns. Mark Stone leading the league in scoring? Cale Makar (and other defensemen) on pace for over 100 points? The Winnipeg Jets off to a perfect start through eight games? To help digest
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple’s new Mac Mini is smaller than its predecessor. Apple Apple announced on Tuesday new Mac Mini models, featuring the first major redesign since 2010 that makes the desktop computer significantly smaller. Aside from a redesign that shrunk the case and reduced the computer’s volume
Who needs a golf cart when you’ve got a… golf bike? That’s the thought behind Fairway Bikes’ new three-wheeled electric bike designed for golfers, helping kick the lazy golf cart for a more interactive alternative. It’s fair to say that golf doesn’t rank very high on the list of sports praised for their cardiovascular exercise
Courteney Cox has paid tribute to Matthew Perry, a year on from his death. The 60-year-old actress wrote on Instagram: “Missing you today and always.” She followed the message with a heart emoji, and tagged the addiction charity set up in his honour. Perry was found dead at his home on 28 October 2024, aged
Alex Salmond has been remembered as not just the political leader who took Scotland “so close to his dream of independence”, but as a “dear friend”. Tributes were paid to the former first minister of Scotland at his private funeral service at Strichen Parish Church in Aberdeenshire on Tuesday. Image: Mr Salmond’s coffin arriving at
Multiple people are believed to be trapped after a 10-storey hotel building collapsed in Argentina. Rescue teams are currently working to remove debris after part of the Dubrovnik hotel in the coastal city of Villa Gesell, in Buenos Aires province, collapsed at around 1am local time, the local council said. Between seven and nine people,
NASA has given nine possible landing regions for its upcoming Artemis III mission. This mission will mark humanity’s first crewed journey to the Moon in over fifty years. The selected regions are located near the lunar South Pole, an area rich in scientific potential. The lunar South Pole is a crucial target for exploration. According
Former Conservative MP Aaron Bell carried out “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in the parliament bar, a watchdog has found. The former MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme “abused his position of power” by touching a woman “on her left thigh, waist and bottom inappropriately and without her consent” while in one of parliament’s bars in December 2023,
Adidas has reached an out-of-court settlement with Kanye West – known as Ye – ending all legal proceedings between them, the sportswear brand has said. Adidas and West had been embroiled in multiple lawsuits for the past two years after the German manufacturer ended a partnership with the rapper over antisemitic comments he made in
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