Iota has strengthened into a “dangerous” category 4 hurricane as it heads towards Central America. Forecasters expect it to make landfall in northeastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras on Monday night. It comes just days after the countries were ransacked by category 4 Hurricane Eta which killed at least 200 people and left dozens more missing.
Barack Obama has said it’s “absolutely” time for President Donald Trump to concede the election – and that he should have already done so. Mr Trump‘s predecessor told CBS’ 60 Minutes programme that he should have conceded defeat to Joe Biden “the day after the election” and it was time for America’s outgoing leader to
The home I grew up in had a lot of TV blaring in the background, relatives always over, a ton of noodles and fried rice, but precious little books. My parents, Chinese immigrants from Taiwan, never took me to the library nor read a single book aloud to me. Were they really going to bring
Tower Records, the music chain that shuttered its 89 stores back in 2006, is relaunching as an online shop, the Bay Area’s ABC7 reports. The new website also features scheduled livestream concerts, as well as a digital version of the company’s in-house magazine Tower Pulse! According to ABC7, the relaunch grew out of interrupted plans
Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring. Three Americans, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi blasted off at 7:27pm
A customer carries away a PlayStation 5 console at an electronics store in Sydney on November 12, 2020, on the day of PS5 official launch. Saeed Khan | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft and Sony both released new video game consoles this week: Microsoft has the $500 Xbox Series X and $300 Series S, while
Boris Johnson is self-isolating after a meeting with an MP who later tested positive for COVID-19. The prime minister’s spokesman said he had been notified by NHS Test and Trace that he has to self-isolate as he was a contact of someone who has tested positive. Mr Johnson will “follow the rules and is self-isolating”
Two new “mega labs” to turnaround 600,000 coronavirus tests a day are planned for next year, as Boris Johnson tries to draw a line under losing two key advisers. The prime minister will make a “series of critical announcements”, Number 10 said, following the sudden departure of aides Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain. And in
Peru’s interim president has resigned after just five days following the deaths of two people in protests over the sudden removal of his predecessor. Manuel Merino was sworn in on Tuesday after Peru‘s opposition-dominated Congress voted to remove popular centrist Martin Vizcarra as president over bribery allegations, which he denies. But in a televised speech
The tension of a contested election has been building for days and finally the two sides of a divided America squared off. They came head-to-head outside The Supreme Court in Washington DC in the afternoon on Saturday. By dusk, both sides moved into town, some armed with baseball bats, shanks and up for a fight.
It’s no secret that the box office space has been struggling to find life during the pandemic — and it seems to be even more difficult for the specialty box office space. As specialty films try to navigate the space by shifting to PVOD, digital, and virtual openings, some distributors continue to brave the landscape
Since Endgame, many have been hoping to see Downey return to the franchise in some capacity. This time last year, fans got their hopes up, as it appeared that he would be returning in another capacity. At the time, Jeff Goldblum, while talking about his work as the Grandmaster on the upcoming animated series What
David Zaslav Anjali Sundaram | CNBC The TV ad market is on the mend after getting hit by a broader pandemic ad slowdown. But with Covid-19 cases on the rise, some networks are cautious about the coming quarters, even with a big boost from political ads this quarter. In recent days and weeks, media companies
Ireland is warning that no Brexit trade deal will be struck if the UK pushes on with a plan to break international law. Tensions have been ratcheted up following comments by ministers in both governments in another crucial week for post-Brexit trade talks. Ireland’s foreign minister Simon Coveney told Sky News that should Boris Johnson
One of Britain’s biggest listed property groups is facing demands from an American hedge fund to break itself up and hand over a board seat in the latest example of shareholder activism targeting a major UK company. Sky News has learnt that Countryside Properties, which has a market capitalisation of over £2bn, has been told
Tigray’s leader has admitted it fired missiles at the capital of neighbouring Eritrea, in another escalation of the fighting in Ethiopia. Earlier, at least three rockets appeared to have been aimed the airport in the Eritrean capital Asmara, hours after the Tigray regional government warned it might attack. The attacks on an international target represent