Adele has told fans she feels “a million miles away from home” and has “never been more nervous” ahead of the opening night of her previously postponed residency in Las Vegas. The British star’s original run of performances at the Caesars Palace hotel was called off at the 11th hour in January, with the star
Month: November 2022
Joe Biden has been accused of “capitulation” after his administration said Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should not face legal action over the murder of a US-based journalist. Despite the US president having previously vowed to make a “pariah” out of the country’s rulers following the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the State Department has declared
Children as young as seven are being coerced by abusers into filming themselves carrying out the most severe forms of child sexual abuse material, a charity has warned. Analysts at child protection charity the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found nearly 900 instances of Category A child sexual abuse material in just five days. It is
Twitter employees have been told that all office buildings have been temporarily closed as more of them are estimated to be leaving the social media firm, according to reports. The managing editor of the tech site Platformer, Zoe Schiffer, tweeted that employees were not given details as to why the offices had been temporarily closed
Ticketmaster has cancelled ticket sales for the US leg of Taylor Swift’s tour due to “insufficient ticket inventory” to meet “extraordinarily high demands”. General ticket sales for Swift’s Eras Tour, her first in five years, were planned to open on Friday morning. But Ticketmaster tweeted on Thursday evening that due to “extraordinarily high demands on
The UK’s economic outlook will be “challenging” for the next two years, Jeremy Hunt says. The chancellor presented his autumn statement to parliament on Thursday, littered with stealth taxes and curbs on government spending amounting to £55bn in an attempt to plug the black hole in the public finances. But the independent Office for Budget
Let’s start with a tale of two charts. Or rather, one chart. Be warned: it’s not a pretty chart. It shows how average household disposable income changed each year since 1955 and for the most part it’s a story of progress. As the years have gone on, we have seen our disposable incomes rise in
Jeremy Hunt will continue to defend his autumn statement today as experts warn of a record fall in living standards across the country. The chancellor presented his economic plan to parliament on Thursday, littered with stealth taxes and curbs on government spending amounting to £55bn in an attempt to plug the black hole in public
Nancy Pelosi has said she will not run again to be Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, after nearly two decades in the role. The veteran politician lost the speakership after the Republicans took the House in the recent midterm elections. Despite saying she would step down from the role she has held since
There is so much about today’s autumn statement that hurts the head. The job of today’s statement – the reason it was urgent and necessary and painful – is because there was a huge black hole in the public finances that was unsettling the markets and pushing up government debt. Yet – amazingly – for
Why energy shares didn’t suffer in response to windfall tax expansion Ian King Business presenter @iankingsky During recent days there have been suggestions in the stock market that investors were being too pessimistic about the windfall taxes likely to be lumped on electricity generators. Happily, for shareholders of those companies, that has proved to be
The residents of Ramsay Street are returning – just months after they said an emotional farewell following 37 years on air. Amazon Freevee and Fremantle announced the return of Neighbours, with a brand-new series to begin filming in Australia in 2023. The continuation of the long-running daily drama series – about the lives, loves, and
A new study of a meteorite that landed in Winchcombe has bolstered a theory regarding the origins of water on Earth. Scientists have published their first detailed analysis of the carbonaceous chondrite meteor, which fell on the Gloucestershire town in February 2021. The new study, published in Science Advances, shows that carbonaceous chondrites like the
Celebrities including NFL star Tom Brady and comedian Larry David have been named in a class-action lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange FTX, accusing them of being culpable for promoting the failed firm. FTX, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, went bankrupt last week – a staggering reversal of fortune for a firm once valued at
Millions more Britons will pay more tax as Jeremy Hunt cut the top-rate threshold and announced freezes on several other taxes in his autumn statement. The total amount of savings from the autumn statement has been costed at £55bn, through tax rises and cutting government spending. However, in real-term costs, UK households’ disposable incomes will
China has said it supports frank exchanges as long as they are held on an equal basis, after its president publicly scolded Justin Trudeau. The two were seen arguing at the G20 summit in Indonesia after President Xi Jinping expressed his ire at Mr Trudeau for allegedly leaking details of a meeting in which the
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