Lifestyle
James Cameron teases new details from Avatar Fire and Ash
Wake up, Avatar fans. We have updates on Avatar: Fire and Ash, which hits theaters later this year and serves as the third film in the franchise first brought...
Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh to Undergo Heart Operation in Offseason
The Los Angeles Chargers were knocked out of the playoffs after the Wild Card Round, losing handily to the Houston Texans with a final score of 32-12. Now, some...
Toddler has best response to adults trying to mimic how she speaks
A family was left in hysterics when they copied their daughter's vocabulary, only for her to throw it right back at them in the best way.Carson Matranga and his...
Opinion: The case of the missing Hegseth investigation
For folks who have so harshly turned on the FBI for supposedly targeting Donald Trump over the years, Republicans sure are quick to turn to the bureau when they...
What will Mexico do if Trump tries to mass deport non-Mexicans across the border?
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have repeatedly vowed to welcome back their citizens should the incoming Trump administration proceed with threats of large-scale deportations. “It’s our obligation,” said President Claudia...
World
Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
On November 28, 1924, Raymond A. Dart, a professor at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, was getting ready to attend a friend’s wedding when a pair of South African...
The New Season of “Severance” Is All Work and No Play
The sci-fi series “Severance” styles itself as a tidy allegory for the misery of the modern office drone. Most of the employees on the “severed” floor of the secretive...
Britain’s Badger Wars
A hundred years after the opening of St. Pancras station, now the flashy London home of the Eurostar, a narrow strip of land opposite the train tracks near Regent’s...
Why Are We Tormented by the Future?
Caught between competing impulses, we praise living in the moment while obsessing about what’s to come. Source link
Business
Old video falsely shared as showing 2025 vandalism act at Kenyan ruling party office
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate...
What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel in Gaza?
Hamas is a Palestinian armed group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250...
Crowds attend Paris memorial for far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen under tight security
PARIS (AP) — Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Thursday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week...
Chinese apps including TikTok hit by privacy complaints in Europe
Online privacy campaigners said Thursday they had filed complaints in several European countries against six Chinese companies including TikTok, accusing them of "unlawfully" sending Europeans' personal data to China.Prominent...
News
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
After Donald J. Trump entered the White House in 2017, The Washington Post adopted a slogan that underscored the newspaper’s traditional role as a government watchdog: “Democracy Dies in...
What Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Pick, Might Get Asked Today
A test for Trump’s cabinet pickFor businesses and markets, perhaps the most important of the hearings for the incoming Trump administration’s Cabinet picks starts on Thursday at 10:30 a.m....
On TikTok, Users Thumb Their Noses at Looming Ban
Over the last week, the videos started appearing on TikTok from users across the United States.They all made fun of the same thing: how the app’s ties to China...
Trump Treasury Pick Scott Bessent to Face Grilling
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, will face questions from lawmakers on Thursday about how he would manage a department at the center of the...
Beauty
From Small-Town Beginnings to the International Spotlight: The Inspiring Journey of Celina Weil
In a world where dreams often feel out of reach, Celina Weil’s rise to becoming Miss Intercontinental Europe stands as a beacon of hope and ambition. What started as a spontaneous decision...
MF license aspirant list swells amid bullish industry growth projections
4 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024 | 5:37 PM IST
India's thriving mutual fund industry is drawing interest from several firms, with multiple applications submitted to...
Airbus likely to cut up to 2,500 jobs in defence, space divisions: Report
Airbus has also been drawing up a specific turnaround plan for its struggling Space Systems business. | Photo: Reuters2 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024 | 4:32...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino tours Seattle ahead of next year’s Club WC
New FIFA president Gianni Infantino, of Switzerland, waves to delegates after his election, during the Extraordinary FIFA Congress 2016 in Zurich3 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024...
Celebrity
Anissa Asabban: Turning Childhood Dreams into Global Success
From a young girl in Frankfurt with a passion for fashion to an international powerhouse managing global talent, Anissa Asabban’s journey is nothing short of extraordinary. As the founder of...
Anissa Asabban presenting the persian Couture Brand Zima Maison in Hollywood.
Anissa Asabban crowned with dreams in a majestic gown and presents the couture brand Zima Maison in Hollywood. She sets an example with her personality. This entire couture design is...
Bozena Zag: Redefining Success through Resilience and Reinvention
At 36, Bozena Zag faced a life-altering crossroads—newly separated, raising three children on her own, and grappling with the crushing weight of depression. The comfortable routine of her past was...
Sebi decides to make sales proceeds available to FPIs on settlement day
Sebi believes these steps will reinforce the country's position as a preferred destination for FPIs. | Photo: Shutterstock2 min read Last Updated : Oct 16 2024 | 5:37 PM...
Culture
CEO of Temasek’s Azalea to retire, with CIO set to succeed her
CEO Margaret Lui’s retirement will mark the end of her 40-year career with the Temasek group Azalea Investment Management’s chief executive officer Margaret Lui will retire on Mar 31....
Mapletree Logistics Trust to sell Tuas property for S$11.18 million, 39.8% above valuation
The property comprises a three-storey cargo lift warehouse and factory building with an ancillary officeMapletree Logistics Trust’s (MLT) trustee HSBC Institutional Trust Services has entered into a purchase agreement...
HSBC warns of bonus cuts as cost of restructuring looms
HSBC Holdings is set to buck an industrywide trend of higher banker bonuses as it gears up for a multibillion-US dollar cost reduction from an ongoing restructuring.
Some employees in...
BP cuts over 5% of workforce in CEO cost cut drive
BP announced on Thursday (Jan 16) that it will cut around 4,700 staff, or over 5 per cent of its total workforce, as part of CEO Murray Auchincloss’ efforts...
Alliance Bank’s top shareholder Vertical Theme is said to consider sale to DBS
INVESTMENT management firm Vertical Theme is planning to seek approval in the coming weeks to start talks about selling its stake in Alliance Bank Malaysia, according to people familiar...
Sias questions Fu Yu board on controlling shareholder’s bid to remove IDs due to company’s performance
THE Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or Sias, has asked precision plastics manufacturer Fu Yu Corporation’s board to substantiate the claim by the largest shareholder Victor Lim that the company’s...
Style
Garth Risk Hallberg’s Essential Joyce Carol Oates
Like many people, the novelist Garth Risk Hallberg was daunted by the size of the celebrated American writer Joyce Carol Oates’s body of work, which encompasses dozens of novels...
What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka.In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I Never Joined Facebook.” Social media had...
How Do You Know When a System Has Failed?
At some point in the past decade or two, dance-music d.j.s discovered a way of punctuating their sets with a prank. Just as the music was reaching a crescendo,...
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Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and the Collapse of the Hollywood #MeToo Era
In the faux aristocracy that is Hollywood, a Blake Lively should not have reason to meaningfully cross paths with a Justin Baldoni. Lively, best known for playing Serena van...
Fashion
US: S&P 500 opens slightly higher with focus on earnings, economic data
THE benchmark S&P 500 opened slightly higher on Thursday (Jan 16) following strong gains in the previous session, as investors assessed softer-than-expected retail sales data and a set of...
Honda seeks to buy out Renault’s stake in Nissan, Kyodo reports
HONDA Motor has asked Nissan Motor whether it would be able to acquire Renault’s shareholding, according to a Kyodo News report, as the two Japanese automakers prepare to combine...
China to probe US chip dumping and subsidies in response to tech sanctions
CHINA will start an investigation into whether the US dumps lower-end chips and unfairly subsidises its own chipmakers, one of Beijing’s strongest retaliatory moves so far against American technology...
CDL divests over S$600 million of assets in 2024, including Suzhou project
City Developments Ltd (CDL) achieved total divestments of more than S$600 million in 2024 as part of its capital recycling initiative, announced the real estate company in a bourse filing...
