Monthly Archives: January 2025
Victor Wembanyama stole Nikola Jokic‘s pass with four seconds left to help the San Antonio Spurs hold on and beat the Denver Nuggets 113-110 on Friday night. Wembanyama finished with 35 points and 18 rebounds to help the Spurs overcome a big night from Jokic. The three-time MVP had 41 points, 18 rebounds and 9 […]
Listen to article LONDON/NEW YORK: Some of the world’s largest hedge funds finished 2024 with comfortable double-digit returns, benefiting from chaotic markets, central bank policy changes and a tight US presidential election race. Hedge funds in 2024 averaged a 10.7% return in the year through November, according to PivotalPath, versus 5.7% in the same period in 2023. […]
Listen to article BENGALURU, INDIA: Microsoft is planning to invest about $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on developing data centres to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Investment in AI has surged since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, as companies across sectors seek […]
Listen to article NEW YORK: The stock market faces its first major test of the year in the coming week, with investors counting on the US jobs report to show a stable but not overheated economy that underpins expectations for equity gains in 2025. Stocks wobbled at the end of December and the start of January, cooling […]
The first confirmed case of a female burial with weapons from the 10th century in the Carpathian Basin, Hungary, has been uncovered. Skeletal remains and grave goods, including weaponry, were identified at the Sárrétudvari-Hízóföld cemetery. This discovery, described by experts, challenges prior assumptions about societal roles during the Hungarian Conquest period, a time marked by […]
Nicole Kidman remembers ‘parents’ on big win Nicole Kidman received the International Star Award at the Palm Springs Convention as he remembered her late parents during her acceptance speech. “I went home over Christmas,” the Aquaman actress began referring to her home in Australia. “I’ve lost both my parents, and I’m in that place, like, […]
Physicists are finalising the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a facility designed to unravel the mysteries surrounding neutrinos, subatomic particles with no electric charge and minimal mass. Scheduled to commence data collection in summer 2025, the observatory aims to identify the heaviest among the three neutrino types. Situated 700 metres beneath the ground in China, […]
Tom Holland had the odds stacked up against him to land the coveted role of Spider-Man back in 2015. Marvel Studios conducted a worldwide search to find the actor who would portray its famous wall-crawling superhero. Holland reportedly beat out more than 1,500 competitors for the role, including current Hollywood superstar Timothée Chalamet. To get […]
NEW DELHI: The national capital on Saturday experienced an unprecedented nine-hour period of dense fog with zero visibility, marking the longest such occurrence this season, as reported by meteorological authorities. The severe conditions caused disruptions to 81 train services and forced 15 flights to divert, officials confirmed.“Zero visibility prevailed for nine hours at Palam between […]
Guwahati: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has issued legal notices to 20 leaders of Greater Cooch Behar People’s Association (GCPA) for blocking train services at Jorai Railway Station in West Bengal’s Alipurduar Division on December 11 last year, officials said here on Saturday. Demanding separate Greater Cooch Behar state, more than 5,000 agitators blockaded the […]