FILE PHOTO: Kevin O’Leary Chairman, O’Shares ETFs; Television Personality, “Shark Tank” speaks during the Milken Institute’s 22nd annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake TORONTO (Reuters) – The wife of Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary is now facing a fine and no jail time after she was charged with careless
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – China’s removal of animated comedy “South Park” from online sites just as it dropped U.S. basketball broadcasts highlighted a tension familiar to Hollywood studios – the need to please Chinese authorities in order to reach the country’s vast audience. FILE PHOTO: People watch a movie at a cinema in Wanda Group’s
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexei Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space in 1965, died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long illness, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. FILE PHOTO: Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (L), the first human to conduct a space walk, and his compatriot Valentina Tereshkova, the first
LONDON (Reuters) – Portraying a single mother whose teenage daughter suddenly disappears in “American Woman” was a “grueling” role for Sienna Miller that forced the British-American actress to imagine her worst nightmare. FILE PHOTO: Actor Sienna Miller arrives for an amfAR gala to celebrate Lee Daniels during New York Fashion Week in New York U.S.,
LONDON/TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some European and Japanese bond investors are taking on more currency risk by buying dollar debt without protecting themselves against potentially devastating exchange rate swings as they seek ways to compensate for sub-zero yields at home. FILE PHOTO: Passersby are reflected on an electronic board showing the exchange rates between the
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes and artillery hit Kurdish militia targets in northeast Syria on the third day of an offensive that has killed hundreds of people, forced tens of thousands to flee and turned Washington’s establishment against President Donald Trump. Since Trump pulled U.S. troops out of the way following a phone call with
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) kept quiet on Friday, postponing media events for the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers in China amid a furor over a tweet by a Houston Rockets executive supporting Hong Kong’s protesters. The teams had been scheduled to address the media Friday afternoon, and the
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom called a widespread electricity shutdown triggered by a power company to prevent wildfires “unacceptable”, as gale-force winds and dry weather posed a critical fire threat to the north of the state. Pacific Gas and Electric Co (PG&E) has imposed unprecedented shut-offs that left more than 730,000 homes
(Reuters) – Top U.S. and Chinese trade officials met on Thursday for the first time since late July to try to find their way out of a bitter, 15-month trade war as new irritants between the world’s two largest economies threatened to dash hopes for progress. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, U.S. Trade Representative Robert
Protesters block the entrance of the BBC Headquarters during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in London, Britain October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Climate-change protesters from the Extinction Rebellion Group have blocked the entrance to the BBC headquarters in London calling on the broadcaster to “tell the full truth” in its coverage of the
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A fierce wildfire that erupted in southern California on Thursday destroyed homes and structures and caused “numerous medical emergencies” at a Riverside County mobile home park, fire officials said. No further details were immediately available on how many mobile homes had been burned or the nature of the medical emergencies. The
FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds a press-marathon at a food market in Kiev, Ukraine October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he had never met arrested businessmen Lev Parnas or Igor Fruman, who have been helping President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer investigate political rival Joe
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut capsule will be ready for its first manned test flight into orbit in the first quarter of next year, provided that “everything goes according to plan” in upcoming tests, NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks to media during a
LONDON (Reuters) – Alicia Vikander plays a murder suspect caught in a love triangle in “Earthquake Bird,” a thriller set in 1989 Tokyo in which the Oscar winner performs in English as well as Japanese. FILE PHOTO: Cast member Alicia Vikander poses at the premiere for “Tomb Raider” in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 12,
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Mayors of cities from Lisbon to New Orleans called on Thursday for urgent global action to tackle climate change that could see hundreds of coastal metropolises swamped with water. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during the C40 World Mayors Summit at the Tivoli convention center in Copenhagen, Denmark October 10,
Ireland’s Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meet in Thornton Manor, Cheshire, Britain October 10, 2019. Noel Mullen/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) – The UK is proposing a “pared-down” free trade agreement to make a deal done by the end of October, Sky news reported on Thursday, citing sources. Prime Minister