A worker at a chips factory in Chongqing, China, on March 30, 2022. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese chip stocks fell Monday after the U.S. announced new export controls aimed at limiting Beijing’s ability to produce advanced military systems. The sweeping rules mean companies must apply for a license
Month: October 2022
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s debt-cutting plan will be published on 31 October – three weeks earlier than planned – alongside an independent economic forecast, the Treasury has confirmed. Both the publication of the medium-term financial plan and the forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had been due on 23 November, but the chancellor has
The Bank of England has announced it is doubling the value of UK government bonds it can buy up as it enters the final days of its emergency bond buying programme in an effort to support the pension market and allay fears of a cliff edge ending. The Bank has said it is ready to
Vladimir Putin has said Monday’s deadly missile strikes targeting cities in Ukraine were in retaliation for its “terrorist action” against Russian territory. In televised remarks, the Russian president said Moscow had launched long-range missile attacks against Ukraine’s energy, military and communications infrastructure on Monday. Cities including Lviv, Ternopil, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, and Zaporizhzhia were targeted, with
Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the con artist who swindled Manhattan’s elite by posing as a German heiress, says she got “exactly what I wanted” after her release from jail. In her first interview since getting out, she told the New York Times she is “really happy” to be out of jail and added that “nothing was
Madonna appears to have declared herself as gay … we think? Madge threw up a TikTok Sunday that’s got the world wondering … a video that shows her throwing some panties at a trash can with the caption “If I miss, I’m Gay!” She falls short of hitting the bin … and the camera cuts
News Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter Following Anti-Semitic Tweet Yesterday, the rapper’s Instagram account was restricted for policy violations By Madison Bloom October 9, 2022 Facebook Twitter Kanye West (Photo by Edward Berthelot/GC Images). Facebook Twitter Kanye West has been locked out of his Twitter account after posting an anti-Semitic tweet, BuzzFeed News reports
So why do book banners insist that they don’t ban books? Because the level of doubling down as book banning increases is, on one hand, impressive and on the other hand, is concerning about several key components of literacy. [embedded content][embedded content] During Banned Books Week, Tiffany Justice — one of the founders of Moms
Just a couple of years ago, it seemed that space mining was inevitable. Analysts, tech visionaries and even renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson predicted that space mining was going to be big business. Space mining companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, backed by the likes of Google‘s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, cropped
Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi has warned restive Tory MPs that “dither or delay will end in defeat” as he appealed for unity just over a month after Liz Truss took office. Speaking to Sky News, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster stressed the need for party colleagues to “focus” on delivery or face being
A former boss of crisis-hit Wasps is spearheading a takeover bid for the Premiership Rugby club that could save it from the threat of relegation or extinction. Sky News has learnt that David Armstrong, who stepped down as Wasps’ chief executive in 2017, is working with Terminum Capital, an investment firm, on a bid to
The hunger is sharp in Lyman but the instinct to survive, even sharper. It’s been exceptionally honed in those Lyman residents who’ve remained through months of fighting, bombing and Russian occupation. And there are a surprisingly large number of them. We see crowds on the outskirts of the town, gathering around a small warehouse where
The professional wrestler and reality TV star known as Sara Lee has died suddenly at the age of 30. Her real name was Sara Weston and in 2015 she won Tough Enough, a competition in which contestants vied for a contract with WWE, the professional wrestling organisation. She had been a competitive powerlifter and was
SUNDAY AM FINAL: Some parts of the weekend box office are alive, and some are dead, and that which is vibrant is Paramount’s second weekend of Smile, which — as we mentioned during the weekend preview — was apt to steal No. 1 away from newcomers Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and Amsterdam. The Parker Finn R-rated
Being the face of a franchise is not easy. In my lifetime book to movie, adaptations have skyrocketed actors to a level of fame that not many reach, like Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter or Kirsten Stewart in Twilight. This is also true for Jennifer Lawrence, who starred as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games
Emma Stone just welcomed a baby girl with her husband, SNL‘s Dave McCary, on March 13, multiple sources told TMZ. Days after their daughter’s arrival, multiple sources spoke to People about the two’s relationship, calling their marriage “strong and respectful.” A month into Stone and McCary becoming parents, a source updated Us Weekly on how
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