★ Berry Song A reverent and joyful celebration of berry picking, Berry Song is the stunning authorial debut of Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. As a girl and her grandmother pick berries in the Tongass National Forest, located not far from the author-illustrator’s home
In this article AAPL META MSFT AMZN GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Marlene Awaad | Bloomberg | Getty Images Other than Apple, it was a brutal earnings week for Big Tech. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft combined lost over $350 billion in market cap after offering concerning commentary for
The UK’s Northern Ireland secretary has said he “will be calling an election” in the nation after a deadline to restore devolved government at Stormont passed at midnight. Yesterday, last-ditch efforts to restore the multi-party executive failed and Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris had been expected to subsequently call an election today and announce the
A veteran investment banker is being lined up to chair one of Britain’s biggest car parts manufacturers as it prepares for a newly independent life as a standalone listed company. Sky News has learnt that Simon Mackenzie-Smith, a prominent City figure during a long career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is close to being
They tell us to run, and so we run. Through the scrub, the mud and the undergrowth until we stop under the shelter of trees. Out of breath, out of sight and, for now, out of danger. This is a place of mud, weapons and nervous energy. We are in the area where the borders
Joe Biden has described the violent assault on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband as “despicable” – as San Francisco’s police chief has said it was “not a random attack”. Paul Pelosi, 82, is recovering from a skull fracture after he was attacked by an intruder with a hammer on Friday. The intruder broke into
HQ2 Nightclub at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ, ranked among International Nightlife Congress’ 100 World’s Best Nightclubs, after a spectacular 2022 Summer season that saw DJ Snake, Tiesto, Steve Aoki, Alok and more perform, just announced their Fall 2022 line up. Fans will be able to enjoy sets from the likes of Morten,
Chaka Khan thinks singers who rely on Auto-Tune need to try a different J-O-B, and she’s even got a suggestion for ’em … delivering packages to her doorstep!!! The R&B icon laid an opinionated smackdown on a portion of this generation’s studio-boosted singers when she said, “There’s some very fine young artists out there doing
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72 years old and a joint Saudi and American citizen, was arrested at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia when he arrived for a two week visit to family. Almadi is a project manager who retired[i] to Florida. Reports England’s the Guardian, the Saudi authorities “held him in a hotel while they searched
I love subscription boxes. I consider it a person failing of mine that I will pay mightily to have a stranger send me things they have decided I want. But it’s like presents! I love presents! And I have to say, after spending an entire year reading only books from bookish subscription boxes, many of
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start a series of test flights for India’s maiden human space flight mission from February next year, a senior official said on Thursday. The space agency also plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing the crew module, which will
In case you missed it on Instagram, Fashion Trust Arabia held its fourth annual FTA Prize Award ceremony last night. The international fashion set, including Naomi Campbell, Bella Hadid, and even Janet Jackson flocked to Qatar’s capital of Doha to join the festivities alongside Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, honorary chair of FTA, founder
In this article MSFT GOOG GOOGL META AMZN AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., outside the Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple’s earnings received a drastically different reaction from investors than
Rishi Sunak has scrapped his pledge to charge people for missing GP appointments. During the summer Conservative leadership contest, Mr Sunak pledged to introduce a £10 fine. Sunak responds to criticism over ‘massive failure of leadership’ – latest updates The prime minister wants to deliver a stronger NHS and the “sentiment remains people should not
The head of NatWest, which is part state-owned, has defended the amount of tax big banks pay. Alison Rose, the chief executive, said banks were taxed more than “any other sector” and more than the financial service sectors in other countries. Speaking on Ian King Live, Ms Rose said: “On taxes, the banking sector already
An investigation has been launched after the nose of a Paraguay plane was destroyed during a severe storm, and it was forced to make an emergency landing. The LATAM Airlines Paraguay plane got caught in severe weather while flying to Asuncion from Santiago de Chile late on Wednesday night. As it passed through the storm,