The Chinese owner of Thomas Cook is exploring the sale of a stake in the famous British holiday brand three years after its ignominious collapse. Sky News has learned that Fosun Tourism Group is examining options including raising capital from an outside investor in the coming months. Industry sources said on Tuesday that Fosun was
Month: November 2022
Lionsgate this week has started the formalities around spinning off its studio from Starz and anticipates filing the deal with the SEC in March, and completing the separation of the businesses by the end of its fiscal second quarter next September, vice chair Michael Burns said Tuesday. The news officially resets the timeline for a
Southern California can expect the first strong Santa Ana winds of the season next week, the National Weather Service says. The powerful winds, expected Tuesday, Nov. 15 through Thursday, likely will peak on Wednesday, with gusts of 35-55 mph in the Los Angeles area, said NWS meteorologist Richard Thompson. Gusts could reach 65-75 mph in
A suspect has been taken into custody after a shooting at the University of Virginia left three members of the football team dead. Authorities identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr, a student at the university in Charlottesville. Along with the three fatalities, two others were wounded when shots rang out in a parking
Rishi Sunak has refused to apologise for the economic turmoil Liz Truss’s short-lived government caused the British people. The prime minister, who is in Bali for the G20 summit, refused six times today to say sorry for the decisions his predecessor made, which caused severe and continuing financial turbulence. He acknowledged that “mistakes were made”
Spotify’s Backstage has been discovered as vulnerable to a severe security flaw that could be exploited to gain remote code execution by leveraging a recently disclosed bug in a third-party module. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 9.8), at its core, takes advantage of a critical sandbox escape in vm2, a popular JavaScript sandbox library (CVE-2022-36067 aka
Last night, Charley Crockett checked off an item on every country musicians bucket list, headlining the iconic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. He had performed as an opening act previously, but this was a big step up for the San Benito, Texas native, especially considering he had previously taken quite the stance against the industry
“I do trust librarians, I trust our teachers and I want to know that I don’t have to look at this list. But here I am finding multiple books that unfortunately are part of the LGBTQ community,” said Joni Shaw Smith, a member of the Keller Independent School District board at last night’s meeting. Keller
What does Tuesday, Nov. 15 mean to you? If you’re an average person, it’s probably just another day. But for Taylor Swift fans desperate to snag tickets to the pop star’s latest stadium tour, today isn’t just another Tuesday — it’s all-out war. The October release of Swift’s 10th studio album Midnights was met with
Andrew Garfield will turn 40 next year, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting in the best shape of his life — as evidenced by a new photo shoot. AG flashed his abs in a recent GQ shoot … and it’s clear the 39-year-old actor’s been recently putting in the work — because it shows!
This time around, WizKid’s on-the-road essentials include More Love, Less Ego. The Nigerian star performer has announced a collection of North American tour dates for his recently released fifth studio album of the same name, scheduled to land in 20 cities stateside next spring. WizKid is getting a head start on the festivities with a
Vivo Y01A has been launched in Thailand with a single 8-megapixel rear camera setup, a 5-megapixel rear camera, and a 6.51-inch IPS display. The smartphone has been launched in two colour options – Sapphire Blue and Elegant Black. It is powered by the MediaTek Helio P35 SoC coupled with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of
Wage growth picked up by more than expected over the three months to September, according to official figures also showing a rise in the jobless rate. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said average weekly earnings, excluding bonus payments, rose at an annual rate of 5.7% during the three months to September as more workers
German broadcasting powerhouse ProSiebenSat.1 Media has posted third quarter group revenues of €921M ($955.7M), a drop of 13%. Profits also fell from EUR162M in the same three months last year to €118M, and adjusted net income was €43M. In a “very challenging market environment,” the Unterföhring-based company noted its nine-month group revenues were “almost stable” at
Los Angeles County public health officials reported 4,565 more cases of the coronavirus since Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to 3,506,367 as of Monday, Nov. 14. Officials reported 27 more deaths linked to the coronavirus since Thursday for a total of 34,065 deaths since tracking began. Hospitalization numbers are pending information from the
Kari Lake, who backed Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in 2020, has lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona. The closely fought race with Democrat Katie Hobbs was one of the most significant in the US midterms as Arizona is a battleground state and is expected to play a pivotal role
Rishi Sunak has avoided sticking to his predecessor’s pledge to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP ahead of the autumn budget, set to be unveiled on Thursday. During her campaign for Number 10, Liz Truss said the figure would be reached by the end of the decade. But asked if he would standby her
Internet giant Google has agreed to pay a record $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. over charges the company misled users about the collection of personal location data. “Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings, when, in fact, Google continued to collect
Well, this is precious. Over on Twitter earlier, a fan tweeted a photo to Zach Bryan of a letter written by a young elementary school-age girl named Josslyn. Apparently, Josslyn’s parents shared a photo of this hand-written letter on a Zach Bryan Facebook fan page, which she wrote as a “thank you” note to her favorite
Science fiction and horror: two great tastes that taste great together! Genre mashups are a blast. (Not “pew-pew” blast, but “rollicking good time” blast.) And there are so many great sub-genres: dystopian fiction, medical experimentation, robots, space travel, aliens. Sometimes a few of those things at once. There’s so many great books to choose from.
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