Rock star Angry Anderson, whose music famously soundtracked the wedding of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan’s characters in Australian TV soap Neighbours, has died at the age of 79. The musician, whose real name was Gary Anderson, rose to fame as the frontman of Rose Tattoo, one of Australia’s most revered rock bands, from 1976….
McDonald’s on Wednesday announced new financial targets for higher operating margins, a training program to improve food quality and plans to support franchisees financially as they invest in their restaurants. It unveiled those efforts to improve its business ahead of an investor presentation that will kick off from the fast-food giant’s Chicago headquarters at 9:30…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. It’s CJ, back for another edition. The weather’s starting to cool down outside our Englewood Cliffs bureau, and, being a native Californian, I always get excited at the thought of a real autumn. But if you’re still in a tropical…
Microsoft techie says excitement of living in US is fading after 2 years Moving abroad can change your life in ways you do not always expect. The excitement of a major move can be strong at first, but over time, even a completely new environment can become familiar. That shift can leave people wondering what…
Lickable wallpaper. An edible garden replete with gummy foliage. A chocolate river made of 25,000 gallons of chocolate goop. Nods to the “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” films appear everywhere in Netflix’s new reality competition show “Wonka’s The Golden Ticket.” But the show, which debuted on the streamer Wednesday, also embraces the darker elements…
The dramatic eviction of an 87-year-old woman from the home in Madrid where she lived for seven decades has drawn attention to the depth of Spain’s housing crisis. The tenant of the flat in the Retiro area of central Madrid, Maricarmen, was unable to pay the rent set by the investment firm that owns it….
According to Spencer, Diana’s strong emotional reactions may have been misunderstood by people around her. He said that while some people described her as paranoid or speculated about other mental health conditions, he saw things differently. “So people said, ‘Oh, she was paranoid.’ No, she wasn’t. She was sensitive to rejection, and she felt very…
On Feb. 27, the day before the United States and Israel attacked Iran, the American economy was on a steady course to lower inflation and attain greater buying power. Gas was cheap and interest rates were coming down. Today, none of those things are true anymore. When it comes to the U.S. economy, there’s before…
The flight suspension follows a series of reported drone strikes in Tigray. On Tuesday, a strike in the southern town of Alamata killed at least 14 people and injured 22 others, according to the Tigrayan authorities. The town’s mayor, Mogos Shiferaw, told the BBC that more than five drones and one fighter jet had carried…
Surveys appear to suggest that there is little opposition to AI or its widespread adoption, compared to so many other countries, but it’s hard to evaluate these figures in such a heavily-censored climate. Beijing has been quite clear that it sees AI as a solution to its ageing workforce, and is rapidly automating manufacturing and…
