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Universal Music Group is investing $80 million for a stake in one of Indiaβs biggest Bollywood production companies, Excel Entertainment Pvt. Universal Music India, a division of Universal Music Group, will acquire a 30% equity interest in the Mumbai-based movie studio. In the deal, announced Monday, the companies will work together on forthcoming films, series,…
Philip Jansen, the former BT Group boss, is taking on the chairmanship of a US-based payments software company which boasts more than 60 million end-users around the world. Sky News understands that Mr Jansen, who now chairs Heathrow Airport and the London-listed marketing services group WPP, is to take the helm of Xplor Technologies, a…
UK average diesel costs have hit a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East and sent oil costs rocketing. Global energy prices have been the main financial market focus since Tehran launched attacks against Gulf nations in retaliation for the US-Israeli strikes on its country, disrupting production and deliveries of…
PHOENIXΒ βΒ Position players reported to spring training at Camelback Ranch for the Dodgers on Monday, but manager Dave Roberts revealed that the team will be without its versatile second baseman and utilityman Tommy Edman when it opens the season against the Arizona Diamondbacks at home on March 26. The 30-year-old Edman underwent ankle surgery during the…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Can Britain afford both welfare and warfare? Beth Rigby takes us inside the row that could define Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. From that huge Commons rebellion over welfare cuts to the looming pressure on defence spending, how can the government look after…
Kemi Badenoch claims Labour is “nothing like the patriotic party of yesteryear” and “playing student politics” over the Iran war. In a speech at the Conservative spring conference in Harrogate today, the Tory leader will accuse the prime minister of “sitting on the fence” while the rest of the world rearms. “I never thought I…
βTime is the most important thing right now,β says Takako Yamaguchi. The artist, who at 72 is having her first institutional show with MOCA, suggests she has a limited number of active, working years. But this realization doesnβt bring her down; instead, sheβs been having the most fun sheβs ever had. Her mind is clearer…
Kansas City Chiefs fans sure are excited about the upcoming season. Fanatics, the official online sportswear retailer for the NFL, reports that sales of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce jerseys jumped a whopping 200% on Tuesday. Clearly, fans were doing some early packing for the teamβs season opener against the Chargers in SΓ£o Paulo, Brazil,…
Restaurateur Tommy Fello was driving from his Ohio establishment to his house on Christmas Eve when he started veering off the road. Fello, then 71, had been awake since 4 a.m. local time preparing a holiday buffet for his family. He chalked the disturbance up to a flat tire. Driving slowly and relying on the…
Has the government just walked into a giant political elephant trap by attempting to reverse the Epping hotel ruling? Already on the back foot after a judge ordered the Bell Hotel to be emptied of asylum seekers, the Home Office is now being attacked for trying to appeal that decision. “The government isn’t listening to…
