Yearly Archives: 2024
Getty Images Mortgage costs are rising – with the average rate on a two-year fixed deal now at 5.5% – despite a recent cut in interest rates. A string of lenders, including Barclays, HSBC, NatWest and Nationwide, have increased the rates charged on new fixed deals in recent days. That has created a headache for […]
Elon Musk (Picture credit: Reuters) Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Friday that he appreciates major brands resuming advertising on his social media platform, X, after boycotting it due to ‘brand safety’ concerns. This comes after reports of several brands returning to the platform following US President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and Musk’s appointment to lead […]
A Quarter Pounder with cheese, fries and a drink arranged at a McDonald’s restaurant in El Sobrante, California, on Oct. 23, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images In the wake of last month’s E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s slivered onions, the fast-food giant said it will invest more than $100 million […]
Jim Carrey’s sister Rita Carrey breathes her last Jim Carrey’s older sister Rita Carrey “passed away peacefully and quietly” on Thursday. Rita’s husband Alex announced the heartbreaking news by taking it to Rita Carrey’s Facebook account on Friday, November 15, as per People magazine. “It is with a heavy heart and my deepest sadness, surrounded […]
The GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit on March 16, 2021. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT – General Motors laid off roughly 1,000 employees on Friday as the automaker attempts to cut costs and realign priorities amid changing market conditions, according to a person familiar with the […]
Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow smoke, machine gunfire booms across the fields, invisible drones buzz overhead and voices scream in Ukrainian “Watch out!” The scene could be 1,860 miles away in Ukraine’s Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of France’s eastern […]
At least 10 people were killed after a fire broke out in a retirement home in the northern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro early Friday, authorities said. The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the national government’s top official in Aragon region, told reporters. SPAIN SEARCHES FOR BODIES AFTER UNPRECEDENTED FLOODING […]
DANIEL PENNY TRIAL: Key witness in Marine vet chokehold case admits he lied. ‘HAIL MARY SHOT’: Illegal immigrant charged in Laken Riley murder ‘fast-tracking’ to life in prison: attorney. Defense attorneys Kaitlyn Beck shuffles papers in a folder as Jose Ibarra, center, accused of killing a nursing student, Laken Hope Riley, appears in court for […]
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster together are ‘happier than ever’ after divorcing their partners Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are going strong in their romantic relationship. On Thursday, November 14, an insider shared the details of the couple’s blossoming love life with Us Weekly. “They’re happier than ever,” the source revealed, describing their relationship as […]
Jake Paul, a former child star and social media influencer who started boxing professionally in 2020, will slug it out with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on Friday in a matchup that will be livestreamed worldwide on Netflix. Here’s what we know about how much Paul and Tyson are being paid, along with other financial […]