Manchester United back in the black ahead of potential sale
Manchester United MANU.N swung to a second-quarter net profit on the back of higher commercial revenue and lower wages, the club said on Thursday.
Net profit came in at 6.3 ...
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North Korea executes people over videos, drugs and religion – report
North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens’ human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report ...
Google says Microsoft’s cloud practices anti-competitive, critical of deals with rivals
Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud has accused Microsoft (MSFT.O) of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticised imminent deals with European cloud vendors, saying these do not solve broader ...
Fugitive Russian father convicted of insulting army detained in Belarus
Alexei Moskalyov, a Russian who has been sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting the army and seen his daughter taken into care, has been detained in Belarus after ...
Four bankers who helped Putin’s friend set up Swiss bank account convicted
Four bankers who helped a close friend of Vladimir Putin move millions of francs through Swiss bank accounts have been convicted of failing to perform due diligence in financial transactions.
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Signs of pain as easy cash era ends are growing
The easy-cash era is over and markets are feeling the pinch from the sharpest jump in interest rate in decades.
The collapse of US-lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in early ...
GSK licenses companies to make cheap copies of HIV prevention drug
British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) has signed deals with three companies allowing them to make inexpensive generic versions of its long-acting HIV preventive medicine for use in lower-income countries, where ...
Fraud in UK public spending soars under poor oversight
Britain’s government has lost tens of billions of pounds to fraud in recent years, with most public bodies unable to grasp the scale of the problem, the independent public ...
Several feared dead after two US army helicopters crash during training in Kentucky
The governor of Kentucky said on Thursday fatalities were expected after two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a routine training mission over the state late on Wednesday.
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Ukraine says IOC retreating on principles over Russian athletes
Ukraine’s authorities suggested on Wednesday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was retreating from its principles by recommending Russian and Belarusian athletes take part in international competitions as neutrals amid ...
Finland’s Marin in battle over state spending to stay in power
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who in 2019 became the world’s youngest premier at 34, is battling to stay in power in an election on Sunday as the country faces a ...
Who is Stormy Daniels and what did she say happened with Trump?
Here are facts about Sormy Daniels and her alleged relationship with Trump.
STORMY DANIELS, ADULT FILM STAR
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is 44 years old and from Baton ...
Ukraine says Russian forces make progress in frontline city of Bakhmut
Russian forces have had some success in the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian military officials said on Wednesday evening, adding that their fighters were still holding on in a ...
Banking turmoil means recession fears are creeping back
The failures of US lenders Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, followed by Credit Suisse’s rescue, and the ensuing turmoil in world markets have re-ignited the recession risks ...
Putin may visit Turkey in April for Russian built power plant inauguration
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey on April 27 for the inauguration of the country’s first nuclear power reactor built ...
US Senate backs repeal of ‘zombie’ Iraq war authorizations, 20 years after invasion
The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Wednesday to repeal two decades-old authorizations for past wars in Iraq, as Congress pushes to reassert its role in deciding whether to send ...
Naples paints the town blue for first Scudetto since Maradona era
The face of a young Diego Armando Maradona gazes down from a mural in Naples’ Miracles Square, watching the city gear up for a celebration it hasn’t enjoyed since ...
Mexican prosecutors investigating murder in deadly fire at migrant center (Update)
Migrants were locked in a cell as a blaze spread killing 39 people at a detention center in Mexico, witnesses and a survivor said on Wednesday, as Mexican prosecutors said they ...
Russia’s Wagner chief says battle for Bakhmut has damaged his forces
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group acknowledged on Wednesday that fighting for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut had inflicted severe damage on his own forces as well as ...
Spurs director Paratici’s ban extended worldwide by FIFA
FIFA have extended bans imposed on past and present Juventus officials to apply worldwide, world football’s governing body said on Wednesday, with Tottenham Hotspur’s current managing director of ...
Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing ‘risks to society’
Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in ...
BYD posts 11-fold jump in Q4 profit
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD Co Ltd (002594.SZ) reported an 11-fold increase in fourth-quarter profit as it extended its lead in the domestic market with a wide range of products.
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Ukraine hits Russian-held city deep behind front
Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind the front line on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault ...
French Constitutional Council to rule on pension bill on April 14
France’s Constitutional Council will issue a much-awaited verdict on April 14 on whether the government’s plans to increase the retirement age are in line with constitutional rules, it said ...