Global oil prices have risen sharply after Iran’s response to US and Israeli airstrikes disrupted shipping, raising the prospect of a new energy-led surge in inflation. Early trading in Asia, the first main financial market activity since Saturday morning’s airstrikes on Iran, saw the international benchmark Brent crude climb 13% to $82 a barrel –…
Some of the world’s biggest tech giants reported quarterly earnings on Wednesday – with a mixed bag of results as fears grow that a bubble is forming in artificial intelligence. Microsoft revealed that its spending on AI infrastructure hit almost $35bn (Β£26.5bn) in the three months to the end of September, a sharp rise compared…
Think of Mike Buckley as a kind of double agent. Not the sinister kind, who give away state secrets for money or revenge; Buckley is privy to much lower-level intelligence. But that doesnβt mean itβs not just as valuable to the people involved. Buckley is the Kingsβ goaltender coach and his chief pupil is Darcy…
The Rams wonβt be the only no-shows at the Super Bowl. President Trump will be conspicuous in his absence from the biggest annual, single-day sporting event in the United States. βItβs just too far away,β Trump told the New York Post. βI would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.β Or perhaps…
Call them the Geek Squad, the Surfer Dudes or the Genius Squad from Redondo Union High. In an unprecedented achievement, three starters for the Sea Hawksβ 13-2 volleyball team β Tommy Spalding, Vaughan Flaherty and Carter Mirabal β are headed to MIT this fall. Their final assignment in Advanced Placement Physics 2 should be figuring…
London-based novelist Anna McCallie made her authorial debut on June 23 with βAbby Offsides,β a rom-com about a woman who abruptly ends her engagement, moves across the pond and falls in love with Lachlan Ramsay, a Scottish soccer star. The novel, fit for the World Cup obsessed, is the latest book from Jenna Bush Hagerβs…
Barranquilla, Colombia β A flamboyant U.S.-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s polarizing presidential runoff Sunday, swinging the country hard right and sparking violent protests. With almost all the ballots counted, Abelardo de la Espriella held 49.66 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent. The 47-year-old’s slender…
The race to replace Angela Rayner as deputy Labour leader has started. She resigned on 5 September from government and from her party post after she was found to have breached the ministerial code for not paying enough stamp duty on a second home she purchased in Hove, East Sussex, earlier this year. Politics latest:…
Media mogul Byron Allen has reached a deal to sell 10 television stations for $171 million to Atlanta-based Gray Media. Gray and Allen Media Group announced the agreement Friday. Allenβs stations in Huntsville, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Ft. Wayne, Ind., Lafayette, La., and Paducah, Ky., were part of the transaction. The stations each have affiliations with…
Kuwait closed its airspace Thursday local time due to “Iranian aggressions” as it intercepted “hostile aerial targets,” following U.S. strikes against Tehran, signaling rising tensions in the Middle East. Israel’s Home Front Command also warned of launches from Lebanon toward several communities in northern Israel. Iran “struck and destroyed eighteen important targets” belonging to U.S….