Arrests have been made after Extinction Rebellion activists splashed "fake oil" over the Bank of England building in the City of London on Thursday morning (April 1).
Best known is its early decades as a sports broker, services provider and producer of auteur films, from Woody Allen and Roman Polanski to Spain’s Isabel Coixet and Fernando Aranoa, few companies have powered so fast and bullishly into high-end drama series production than Spain’s Mediapro. That drive has seen The Mediapro Studio launch in […]
U.K. production company Shakespeare Sisters has acquired the film rights to the popular YA novel “The Upside of Unrequited,” written by best-selling scribe Becky Albertalli. The author’s debut novel, “Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,” was adapted as the gay teen romantic comedy movie “Love, Simon,” which – distributed by 20th Century Fox – grossed […]
The last of nine critically endangered Rothschild’s giraffes have been floated to safety from a flooded island in Kenya, a conservation group said on April 12.The last giraffes to catch the boat to safety were a mother, Ngarikoni, and her calf Noelle, the charity Save Giraffes Now said.Video from the Northern Rangelands Trust shows Ngarikoni being tranquilized and caught by conservationists before being transported across Lake Baringo on a custom-built barge to a 4,400-acre sanctuary on the mainland. The video also shows Noelle on the same barge, with the giraffes joining the others at their new mainland sanctuary.The rescue completed a 15-month project to rescue giraffes from a peninsula that was turned by flooding into a “disappearing” island, Save Giraffes Now said. Credit: Northern Rangelands Trust via Storyful
China's women sealed a last-ditch spot at the Tokyo Olympics football Tuesday by squeezing past South Korea 4-3 on aggregate, a thrilling conclusion to a qualifying campaign dogged by coronavirus delays.
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Siri, who is proficient at stone walling curious Apple fans quizzing it about new products and upcoming events by re-directing them to the company's website, prematurely seemed to have revealed the plan to hold an event next Tuesday. Apple typically launches new hardware in an event in March. Known for splashy launches packed with hundreds of journalists at its sprawling campus, Apple has turned to virtual events since last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that it is “great” that JCVI groups 1-9 have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the UK, and adds that the drop in deaths and infections has been “overwhelmingly” due to the lockdown rather than the vaccine rollout.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday told Russia to end its "unjustified" military build-up around Ukraine as Kiev and Washington's top diplomats gathered for talks in Brussels.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced amendments to voting laws on Tuesday that critics say favour pro-Beijing candidates by redrawing constituency boundaries, creating more electoral districts, and criminalising calls for voters to leave ballots blank. Having become Hong Kong's least popular chief executive in the near quarter century since the handover from British colonial rule, it remains unclear whether Lam will seek re-election. Lam announced the poll date for the electoral committee to select the chief executive and 40 of the 90 seats in the city's mini-parliament, the Legislative Council, known as LegCo, is set for Sept. 19.
A taxi driver who molested a 13-year-old boy who was his passenger was jailed for one year and two months, and given three strokes of the cane on Tuesday (13 April).
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday that he is expanding the U.S. military presence in Germany by 500 troops and has stopped planning for large-scale troop cuts ordered by the Trump administration. “This planned increase in U.S. personnel underscores our commitment to Germany and the entire NATO alliance,” Austin said in a notable counterpoint to the Trump administration’s repeated complaints that Germany is a weak partner on defense and security. Austin made the announcement after talks with German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on his first tour of Europe since becoming Pentagon chief in January.
Channel 4 format “The Write Offs” is getting local versions in Australia and Denmark, marking the first international deals for the Banijay-sold format. Originally created by Shine TV for Channel 4, “The Write Offs” finds former “Great British Bake Off” host Sandi Toksvig helping a group of adults improve their literacy. Metronome Productions will make […]
British prime Minister Boris Johnson said COVID-19 infections and deaths would start to rise again as restrictions were eased despite the successful roll out of vaccinations to those aged above 50 and vulnerable groups. "So, as we unlock the result will inevitably be that we will see more infections and sadly we will see more hospitalizations and deaths."
