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The former BT Group chief Philip Jansen is being lined up as the next chairman of Heathrow Airport as Britain’s biggest aviation hub prepares to deliver an expansion costing close to Β£50bn. Sky News has learnt that Mr Jansen, who chairs the FTSE-100 marketing services group WPP, is in advanced talks with Heathrow’s board and…
Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film βCorpus Christi,β but his biggest box-office success was in Poland for his 2014 film βWarsaw 44,β about the Warsaw Uprising, the bloody effort by the Polish resistance to expel the occupying German army from the city toward the…
Morrisons, the UK’s fifth-largest supermarket chain, is exploring a Β£1bn property deal amid its battle to recapture the ground it has lost to rivals including Sainsbury’s and Aldi. Sky News has learnt that Morrisons, which is based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, has engaged the real estate advisory firm CBRE to evaluate options for raising finance…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Friday’s games.
It was abundantly clear to actor-director Bradley Cooper that if βIs This Thing On?,β his comedy-drama set in New Yorkβs stand-up scene, lacked authenticity, the film would fail. With the iconic Comedy Cellar at its heart, he found the key to unlocking that β by casting several of the real-life comedians who regularly take the…
The NFL has reached a deal to take a 10% ownership stake in the Walt Disney Co.βs ESPN, the league and Disney announced Tuesday evening, a move that is expected to solidify the sports media outletβs relationship with the league for years to come. In return for the equity stake valued at more than $2…
Disasters are real β also, these days, frighteningly common, be they epic confluences of nature and negligence or the murderous and preventable kind. And when it comes to disaster movies, itβs hard to know what the acceptable level of exploitation is. Of course, director Paul Greengrass could never be confused with the unseriousness of producer…
Two major US microchip makers have agreed to pay the Trump administration a portion of sales in return for export licences to send chips to China, according to reports. The world’s most valuable company, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will give 15% of Chinese sales of two AI-powering microchips to the US government. Such…
Former Labour minister Lord Triesman, who was “vital” to New Labour, according to Sir Tony Blair, has died at the age of 82, the party has said. David Triesman, who also served as chairman of the Football Association, died “peacefully and at home” on Friday, the party said in a statement. He was the general…
If you look up at the sky in Texas and see what could be a flying burrito, you may not be imagining things: Chipotle on Thursday launched an autonomous aerial delivery service for digital orders in the Dallas area.Β Through a partnership with Zipline, a drone delivery and logistics provider, Chipotle is introducing Zipotle, new…
