A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Malone Lam admitted to teaming up with friends to steal $245m (£181m) of bitcoin and laundering the proceeds. The 22-year-old and his associates used the money to spend up to $500,000…
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first leader after the city returned to Chinese rule, has died at the age of 89. The former shipping scion took over the reins from the last British Governor Chris Patten in July 1997 when the UK handed Hong Kong back to China, ending more than 150 years of British control….
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, and scientist, popularly considered one of history’s most versatile minds. Born in a small town, he trained as an artist in Florence before painting the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, two of the most recognised works of art in the world.But painting was only…
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Eagleson described the situation on Guantanamo as “a mess” and said he had decided not to attend any of the pre-trial proceedings there. “My overall feeling is a sense of betrayal from the US government and a sense of extreme frustration,” he said. “They’ve botched every single part of this trial.” With 25 years having…
A comedian made a casual suggestion. A businessman took it seriously. And a few years later, the result was a global chess league.Anand Mahindra has revealed the rather unexpected story behind the Global Chess League, tracing its beginnings to a challenge from comedian Samay Raina during an online interaction in 2020.Mahindra jokingly calls it the…
The battleground New Hampshire Senate race is set between Republican former Sen. John Sununu and Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, NBC News projects, after both prevailed in their primaries Tuesday night. Pappas defeated scientist Karishma Manzur, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, in his primary, leading 62% to 36% with about one-fifth of the…
But while the fallout from the Iran war has exacerbated Trump’s irritation with Europe and accelerated some US military moves away from the region, it has not been to the immediate benefit of the US presence in the Pacific. In fact, Washington has also pulled resources from there. Carrier forces were diverted from the Pacific…
Corning and Qualcomm rallied on Tuesday and brought a host of AI-related stocks along with them, as a pair of infrastructure deals lifted Wall Street’s confidence that data center spending will remain strong. Chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices gained 9% and 6% respectively, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise climbed 8% and photonics company Coherent added…
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most renowned voices on compassion and human well-being alive today. Born in 1935, he was identified as a child as the reincarnation of his predecessor and later became the religious and political head of Tibet.In 1989, he was…