Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images At midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark. Dac Croach, who goes by username Dacvak, and the subreddit’s other leaders hit the private button, initiating a 48-hour shutdown for the group’s more than 37 million members, along with anyone else who
The NBA has suspended Memphis Grizzlies player Ja Morant for 25 games next season for brandishing a gun in a social media video. In a statement, the NBA said the 23-year-old was suspended without pay “for conduct detrimental to the league”. It said Morant “posed with a firearm in a car during a live-streamed video”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged a group of African leaders to ask Vladimir Putin to free political prisoners. The presidents of Zambia, Senegal, Comoros, South Africa and Egypt’s prime minister are there, alongside senior officials from Uganda and Congo-Brazzaville. They are expected to travel to Russia for a meeting with President Putin on Saturday in St
A truck driver has been convicted of fatally shooting 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jewish people in the US. Seven other victims were wounded, including five police officers, after 50-year-old Robert Bowers opened fire with an assault rifle and other weapons in Pittsburgh. Bowers was charged with 63 counts, including
A man has been charged with murdering three people following a series of attacks in Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police said Valdo Calocane, 31, is also charged with three counts of attempted murder. He will appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. The murder charges relate to the deaths of Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both aged
Up to 500 people are missing after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the United Nations has said. Seventy-eight people are known to have died after the vessel got into difficulty and sank 45 miles off the coast of Greece in the early hours of Wednesday. Speaking at a briefing
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. The headlines didn’t match the product last year out West. A sky-is-falling vibe was unavoidable following the announcement that USC and UCLA would be joining the Big Ten in 2024, leaving the Pac-12 unmoored and scrambling.
While Gary Barlow has joked it was a “blunder” by producers not to test out his acting chops in Take That’s new film, in all seriousness the singer hopes Greatest Days’ cinematic success will be in “turning a mirror” on their fans. Speaking to Sky News, with faux upset, he joked that not casting himself
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Shell reported adjusted earnings of $39.9 billion for the full-year 2022. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images British oil major Shell on Wednesday announced plans to boost returns to shareholders and keep oil output steady, as part of its strategy to simplify the group’s business and improve investor confidence. Ahead of its Capital Markets
The live poll tracker from Sky News collates the results of opinion surveys carried out by all the main polling organisations – and allows you to see how the political parties are performing. By charting changing voting intentions from January 2020 to now, the tracker allows you to monitor the evolving picture as we head
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm founded by Richard Branson, said on Thursday its long-awaited commercial spaceflight service would launch later this month, sending its shares up over 55 percent in trading after the bell. The first spaceflight, called “Galactic 01“, is planned between June 27 and June 30, the company said. “Galactic 02” will
In this article ETL-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT PARIS — Eutelsat is one of the biggest satellite companies in the world, but has faced declining revenue in its traditional businesses at a time when it is handling a huge acquisition and facing disruption from billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Eutelsat CEO Eva
Tesco has reported “encouraging early signs” that grocery inflation is starting to ease while revealing a leap in sales. The UK’s largest retailer said there was a slowdown in price growth across the market and it was continuing to focus on value for its customers. The company updated on its performance as the food sector
Meghan Markle’s podcast will not be renewed for a second series by Spotify. The Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes podcast is being dropped by the streaming service, and reportedly did not produce enough content to warrant a full payout of the $20 million (£15 million) deal she and Prince Harry signed with Spotify in 2020. In
A bus carrying mostly elderly people has collided with a lorry in a rural part of the Canadian province of Manitoba, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, police have said. Rob Hill, commanding officer of the Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the bus was carrying 25 people and authorities are deploying all their
Millions of people were left waiting too long for energy support due to a lack of government “bandwidth”, according to a report from the cross-party Public Accounts Committee. More than a million households became eligible for support too late, while a further two million homes using prepayment meters have yet to redeem their £400 voucher,
AI is a hot topic – from generating worryingly believable photos (pope coat anyone?) to the use of Chat GPT for all sorts of things, and developers calling for its regulation before it’s too late. So of course it was always likely to feature in the new series of dystopian drama Black Mirror, which is
Rishi Sunak is facing a potentially acrimonious vote on the Boris Johnson partygate report at the start of next week. A debate and vote on the report, published by the House of Commons Privileges Committee on Thursday, will take place on Monday – Mr Johnson‘s 59th birthday. But it will not be a gathering Mr
Conor McGregor has denied allegations of sexual assault against a woman at game four of the NBA finals on Saturday. A statement issued via his lawyer, Barbara R Llanes, said: “The allegations are false. Mr McGregor will not be intimidated.” Miami Police have confirmed they are investigating a report issued to them on 11 June,