Getty Images Indians are now travelling to high-altitude places like Ladakh for stargazing On a cold winter night, around 200km (125 miles) from the Indian capital Delhi, dozens of people huddle around telescopes, waiting for darkness to settle over the landscape. Over the next few hours, more than 150 meteors streak across the sky –…
Singer Julio Iglesias has denied allegations of sexual assault made by two female former employees. The women allege that the 82-year-old Spanish superstar “normalised abuse” in a coercive, threatening and violent environment while they were working at his properties in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic. Responding on Instagram, Iglesias said: “I deny having abused, coerced,…
Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which had banned music. A new policy of deportations by Pakistan threatens this community of exiles. Source link
A Paris criminal court on January 5 convicted 10 people in a case involving online posts and videos that claimed France’s first lady Brigitte Macron was born male. The court ruled that the content amounted to cyberbullying under French law.According to the judgment, the defendants shared and amplified false claims about Brigitte Macron’s identity across…
Justice Secretary David Lammy has intervened to block the transfer of a killer to an open prison after it emerged he had released drill music with lyrics referencing the murder, under a pseudonym. Jake Fahri was sentenced to life in 2009 for killing 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen by throwing an oven dish at him that shattered…
Core U.S. consumer prices rose less than predicted in December, reinforcing hopes that inflation is tempering as the Federal Reserve contemplates its next move on interest rates. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, the consumer price index showed a seasonally adjusted 0.2% gain on a monthly basis and 2.6% annually, the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
A grocery store in the Manhattan borough of New York on Dec. 13, 2025. Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty Images Progress in the fight to throttle back inflation appeared to stall in December amid price pressures from groceries, dining out, utility gas, clothing and other categories of consumer spending. The consumer price index, a…
A logo on the exterior of the ASML Holding NV headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Peter Boer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML has held gains to hit record highs, following Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC’s strong earnings report on Thursday. ASML — Europe’s most valuable company and the…
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. When Peter Buffett learned that he and his siblings would be in charge of giving away the fortunes of their father, Warren Buffett,…
Getty Images/EPA The White House has released the names of the members who will form the Trump administration’s new “Board of Peace” for Gaza. With the US president as chair, the board will oversee the work of a committee of Palestinian technocrats tasked with the temporary governance of Gaza – and its reconstruction. Each member…