The chief executive of Virgin Media is to take the helm of Britain’s biggest mobile network operator, it will announce this week as it seeks regulatory approval for its £31bn tie-up with O2. Sky News has learnt that Lutz Schuler, who has run Virgin Media since mid-2019, will be named on Wednesday as chief executive
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As of Tuesday, April, the California Department of Public Health’s vaccine dashboard showed about 26.1 million doses have been shipped throughout the state (3.82 million in the past week) and of those, 20.2 million have been administered (2.62 million in the last week). According to Bloomberg’s dashboard tracking vaccine distribution, 34.5% of California’s population has
Minneapolis police officers are advised to “stay away from the neck when possible” when restraining combative suspects, the murder trial of the ex-cop accused of murdering George Floyd has heard. Testimony from Derek Chauvin‘s former colleagues at the city’s police department continued on Tuesday, after the force’s chief yesterday said his actions against Mr Floyd
Carbon emissions from England’s £27.4bn roadbuilding scheme will be about 100 times greater than the government has claimed, expert witnesses have told a court. The government has said the carbon impact of its “Road Investment Strategy 2” (RIS2) will be too small to be material, at just 0.28 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 equivalent from October
FilmLA is raising prices on a wide range of permit fees in order to return its finances to pre-pandemic levels – eight years from now. The new rates, which are going up by about 13-15%, will take effect on May 1. It’s the first time fees will have increased since July 2019. The agency was
April is usually a whirlwind month for the cybersecurity industry as it coincides with the release of the highly regarded and influential MITRE ATT&CK test results. The ATT&CK test measures cybersecurity platforms’ abilities to detect and react to emulated, multistep attacks that can be used as a barometer of platform effectiveness. This means that every
Poco launched the Poco X3 Pro last week in India, and the company claims that this is the true successor to the very popular Poco F1 (Review) which was launched back in August 2018. The Poco X3 Pro resembles last year’s Poco X3 (Review) in terms of looks, but its insides are more powerful. Some of the key highlights of
Carrie Underwood absolutely wowed performing at her live, virtual concert My Savior: Live From The Ryman on Easter Sunday. She was joined by gospel singer CeCe Winans (who is also featured on the album), Bear Rinehart of NEEDTOBREATHE, and singers Mac McAnally and Buddy Greene. She sang every song from the album and raised $112,650 for
Supergirl returned last week for its sixth and final season and while the Superfriends managed to stop Lex Luthor (Jon Cryer), they soon found themselves dealing with another major issue, one unlike anything they’ve faced before. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) was sent into the Phantom Zone by Lex and with no idea where exactly she was
Harvey Weinstein‘s appealing his rape and sexual abuse conviction in New York, and has a laundry list of reasons why he believes he got a raw deal. According to new legal docs … Weinstein claims he was deprived of a fair and impartial jury trial, which resulted in guilty verdicts and a sentence of 23
The Saw franchise is being revived in a major way with the upcoming Spiral: From the Book of Saw, with the 2004 film that started it all headed to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray next month, allowing audiences to revisit the debut installment in all its gruesome glory. Bloody Disgusting revealed the news that the film
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says that corporations should stay out of politics and stop inserting themselves into debates over divisive issues. #CNN #News
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The 2004 death of Alonzo Brooks, a 23-year-old black man who disappeared after attending a party in Kansas, has been ruled a homicide following a new autopsy, The Associated Press reports. Brooks’ body was exhumed from a cemetery in Topeka, Kansas, last year and was reviewed by a federal forensic examiner at Dover Air Force
Long before it was fashionable to embrace environmental causes, Robert Redford was fighting the good fight, using his celebrity status to bring attention to causes ranging from keeping power plants out of Southeastern Utah to the use of “clean energy” to combat carbon pollution. He’s been on the board of the National Resources Defense Council
Mild spoilers for Picard Season 1 ahead. More than any of the new Star Trek series, Picard is the one that is the most stuffed with obvious Trekkie nostalgia. Yes, when Strange New Worlds starts showing some footage, we might feel differently, but because Picard is a sequel to the ‘90s-era of Trek, for this
The global recession would have been three times deeper had governments not stepped in to rescue their economies, the International Monetary Fund has said, in its most positive outlook for the global economy since the onset of the pandemic. In its latest update on the state of the global economy, the Fund upgraded its outlook
LOS ANGELES — With funding for additional homeless outreach workers already approved, the Los Angeles City Council will consider a motion Tuesday to improve the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s outreach program. The motion, which also intends to improve coordination efforts to give people experiencing homelessness a better chance of being placed into housing, was
The highly contagious UK COVID-19 variant first discovered in Kent has now been reported in every state in the US. More than 15,000 cases of the B117 strain have now been confirmed and experts are concerned variants are behind a surge in infections in many states. “America appears to be done with the pandemic,” Dr
Boris Johnson has not “given up” on allowing Britons to jet abroad from 17 May as he raised the prospect of holidaymakers being able to use cheaper and faster COVID tests on their return to the UK. Under the prime minister’s roadmap for lifting lockdown restrictions, international travel without a reasonable excuse will not be