Turning crisis into opportunity was never this epic. When a Böcker Agilo forklift, built by the German company Böcker Maschinenwerke GmbH, was used in a daring daylight robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the manufacturer decided not to hide from the spotlight. Instead, it embraced the unexpected publicity with humour. The company shared a…
Netflix is likely to amend its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery’s assets, making an all-cash bid, CNBC’s David Faber reported on Wednesday. In December, Netflix reached a deal to purchase WBD’s streaming platform HBO Max and the Warner Bros. film studio in a transaction comprised of cash and stock. The deal is currently valued at…
Emma PetrieEast Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Humberside Police Grace Keeling, left, and Sarah Keeling went into the sea at Withernsea on 2 January A body has been recovered in the search for a missing girl, 15, who was swept into the sea off the East Yorkshire coast, Humberside Police has said. Grace Keeling went into the…
A “Join Our Team” flyer at the Appalachian State University internship and job fair in Boone, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty Images Private sector job creation turned positive in December though at a bit softer pace than expected, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday. Companies added…
Aj_watt | E+ | Getty Images Travelers who were briefly stranded abroad after the U.S. operation to extract Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro got a hard lesson in the limitations of travel insurance. Travel insurance policies offer a financial backstop to buyers for various unforeseen snafus, like having to pay for medical care abroad or for…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI sent a letter Thursday to investors and banking partners warning that it expects Elon Musk to make “deliberately outlandish, attention-grabbing…
Shobhaa De has never been one to mince words, and at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2026 press conference, she didn’t disappoint the audience. The author and columnist spoke about the true feminism and the need for better gender equality , especially at the workplace. Cut straight to the heart of modern feminism. Forget hashtags or…
President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of Thursday’s election extending his four decades in power by another five years. He gained 72% of the vote, the election commission announced, against 25% for his closest challenger Bobi Wine, who has condemned what he described as “fake results” and “ballot stuffing”. He has not provided…
Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte’s once-invincible army met its doom in the freezing fields of Eastern Europe, scientists have uncovered new clues about what truly destroyed his forces, and it wasn’t just the brutal Russian winter. Using advanced DNA analysis, researchers have examined the teeth of soldiers buried in a mass grave in Vilnius, Lithuania,…
Citigroup on Wednesday posted fourth-quarter results that topped expectations as the lender reaped more interest income and set aside less money for troubled loans than analysts had expected. Here’s what the company reported: Adjusted earnings: $1.81 per share vs. $1.67 expected, according to LSEG Adjusted revenue: $21.0 billion vs. $20.72 billion expected Citigroup said net…