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Actor also opens up about parenting, public scrutiny and origins of her business empire Gwyneth Paltrow sat down with Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky and Kristin Batalucco on their podcast Friends Keep Secrets for a wide-ranging conversation that opened with her early-90s romance with Brad Pitt before moving on to her Goop empire, raising her children in … Read more
A group of masked protesters gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after wrongly believing that asylum seekers had been taken there, only to discover that the men staying at the hotel were members of Pakistan’s Undder-19 cricket team. According to The Guardian, around 40 people, many wearing balaclavas or other face coverings, assembled outside the Marriott hotel following reports that a group of apparently foreign men had arrived by coach. Reform councillor George Madgwick, who was called … Read more
PM approves 1% sales tax for EVs but protection for existing assemblers continues ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved a draft of a new five-year auto policy, continuing protection to existing assemblers of conventional vehicles for four more years but offering substantial tax incentives on new energy vehicles (NEVs) to substantially reduce their prices. … Read more
The sanctions that will now be imposed on Los Tiguerones are an increasingly common U.S. tactic, though they unlikely to hurt the gang financially.
Google says the AI infrastructure build-out will involve development of three new data centres in the country’s north A view of Fortum’s nuclear power plant in Loviisa, Finland, September 2, 2024. REUTERS Alphabet’s Google will invest at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in AI infrastructure in nippy Nordic country Finland over the next two years, its … Read more
Yes, El Niño is unusually powerful this time. But that’s not always a bad thing.
Veteran actor says contestants’ personal stories have taken the show beyond its usual quiz format Amitabh Bachchan has spent more than 25 years hosting Kaun Banega Crorepati, but the veteran actor says some moments on the current season’s set have gone well beyond the quiz format. In a post shared on his personal Tumblr account, … Read more
I was once having a discussion with a Mexican friend of mine here in America. I asked him what his authentic national language was, to which he replied that it was Spanish. I asked him again, this time reminding him that his people were colonised and ruled over by the Spaniards, and so what the … Read more
This year is shaping up to be a global experiment in education: Can students embrace tech innovation without losing critical thinking skills?
Over 2,000 flights have been disrupted in the past two days, as an air-traffic control problem has stymied British airports.