Barclays was given a thumbs down from the City despite a bumper rise in quarterly profits to £2.4bn and growing optimism about the UK’s recovery from the COVID-19 downturn. The lender delivered earnings of £2.4bn in the January-March period, up from £923m a year ago when the economic picture was darkened by the prospect of
The UK will pay £400m to Tehran to free Iranian-British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, according to reports on Iranian state TV. The channel reported that deals have been reached to release prisoners with Western ties held in Iran. An official also said a deal with the US will see a prisoner swap in exchange for the
Travis Scott touched down in Miami in a brand-spanking-new private jet … and it’s ridiculously big!!! Travis came back from Nassau, Bahamas where he was celebrating his 29th birthday on a yacht. He goes big by sea and by air! He apparently got the jet last Xmas, but just looking at it now … well
Caitlyn Jenner has said that transgender athletes who were born male should not be allowed to compete in girls’ sports teams. Jenner recently announced she would run for California governor as a Republican in an effort to unseat Democrat Gavin Newsom. The former Olympic decathlon medallist and reality TV star came out as transgender in
News Death Grips’ Zach Hill Shares Debut Single from New Band Undo K From Hot: Listen “750 Dispel” is the first offering from the new group’s upcoming album G.A.S. Get A Star By Noah Yoo May 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Undo K From Hot is a new band featuring Death Grips co-founder Zach
US space agency NASA has told Elon Musk’s SpaceX to halt work under a contract it won to develop a lunar spacecraft, pending the outcome of challenges by rival bidders at the US Government Accountability Office, the agency said on Friday. NASA’s decision means SpaceX has to stop any work specifically related to the Moon
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook Spencer Platt | Getty Images In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told shareholders that the company had bought about 100 companies in the past six years. That works out to the iPhone maker buying a company every three to four weeks. The statistic gives the impression of
Boris Johnson is trying to focus attention on tackling crime and recovering from the coronavirus, despite a number of allegations against him that may damage his party’s election chances. Two new polls suggest the Conservative lead over Labour has been trimmed ahead of Thursday’s local elections in England and voting for parliaments in Scotland and
Today’s quarterly results from AstraZeneca are a very timely reminder that, for all the debate about the drug-maker’s involvement in the Oxford COVID vaccine, it is of very little importance to the financial fortunes of what is currently the fifth-largest company in the FTSE 100. In fact, AZ is actually losing money on its involvement
India is still hitting yet more staggering new global highs for daily coronavirus cases as its vaccine rollout-for-all stuttered and stumbled even before it got properly off the ground. Most states and many hospitals around the country reported being forced to postpone the programme for days, maybe longer as stocks failed to make it to
Most of the relationships in How I Met Your Mother broke fans’ hearts when they ended. When Barney dumped Nora for Robin, and then Robin decided to stay with Kevin, it was a gut punch. When Victoria and Ted couldn’t make it work, no one was happy about it. Even when breakups were mutual, like
The US has begun its final phase of the withdrawal of its own and NATO’s last troops from Afghanistan – with the aim of leaving the country by the end of summer. It will bring to an end America’s “forever war” in the country, which began with the invasion in response to the 9/11 terror
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SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Though the numbers aren’t as big as their opening weekends, an interesting tale continues at the weekend box office during the pandemic with New Line’s Mortal Kombat and Funimation/Aniplex’s Demon Slayer bound for a photo-finish of $6.1M in their second weekends. Really, it’s too close to call right now. Mortal Kombat had the slight upper hand
After proving powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter has new orders: scout ahead of the Perseverance rover to assist in its search for past signs of microbial life. The next phase extends the rotocraft’s mission beyond the original month-long technology demonstration. Now, the goal is to assess how
Stan Chudnovsky of Facebook Horacio Villalobos | Corbis | Getty Images Adoption of Facebook’s interoperability between Messenger and Instagram is ahead of expectations, according to the exec who runs the Messenger business. “We are beating our expectations in terms of how fast and how many people are upgrading,” said Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s head of Messenger,