The owner of The Very Group, one of Britain’s biggest online shopping platforms, is to launch a Β£2bn auction of the company just months after taking control. Sky News has learnt that Carlyle, the American private equity giant, is lining up Barclays and JP Morgan to handle a sale of Very, which sells a wide…
Hip-hop star J. Cole is taking his basketball dreams overseas β again. When ESPN reported Wednesday that the two-time Grammy winner has signed to play for the Nanjing Monkey Kings in the Chinese Basketball Assn., it might have sounded like an April Foolβs Day prank. But itβs no joke. Coleβs longtime manager and business partner…
The dismantling of Sanjeev Gupta’s British business empire is accelerating after advisers were hired to find a buyer for a steel production business which supplies oil giants including BP and Shell. Sky News has learnt that Liberty Steel’s Hartlepool-based steel pipes unit, which employs about 170 people, is hunting a buyer within weeks. Industry sources…
Opinion David SwanTechnology editor June 21, 2026 β 1:00pm June 21, 2026 β 1:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA I am a competent barbecuer and a reluctant everything-else. I can feed my family, but I wouldnβt call most of it…
John Carpenter has this one recurring nightmare. βIβm in a huge, massive town I donβt really know,β he says, βand Iβm looking for the movie district. And inevitably all the theaters are closed down. Theyβre all closed down. Thatβs what the dream is.β Iβm visiting Carpenter at his longtime production house in Hollywood on one…
A chatbot is a computer program that uses artificial intelligence to simulate human conversation. For the lonely, a chatbot can be a companion, as Meg Oliver reports in tonight’s “Eye on America.”
Two years after a crushing breakup, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is sitting in an empty hotel bar, her arms shaking as she reads a page from her notebook. Sheβs been stumbling, she says, in interviews, struggling to explain how she transformed one of the deepest pains of her life into art. The work in question, βNobodyβs…
SOUTHERN SECTION PLAYOFFS THURSDAYβS RESULTS First Round DIVISION 2Chino Hills 8, Redlands East Valley 7Etiwanda 11, Santa Monica 10La Habra 13, Alta Loma 10Los Alamitos 22, Walnut 13Orange Lutheran 11, San Marino 10El Segundo 17, Edison 16Damien 14, Crescenta Valley 11Crean Lutheran 21, Carpinteria 13Redondo Union 12, La Serna 8Royal 11, Riverside King 10Ventura 11,…
DALLASΒ βΒ The Lakers are as shorthanded as they can be, their dynamic starting backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves out with injuries at a pivotal time of the season. Theyβre the offensive engines for a Lakers team battling for the No. 3 playoff seeding in a competitive Western Conference. The 41-year-old LeBron James is now…
So Trump and tariffs – what’s going on? Let’s start with the latest development and work backwards.Β The president has announced a tariff of 15% globally. Now you might be thinking “didn’t he set it at 10% on Friday?” Yes he did. But now he’s raised it to 15%. The latest pronouncement came – on…