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Executives at Vodafone will next month meet parliamentarians amid growing scrutiny of its treatment of dozens of its retail franchisees, which a prominent MP said possessed “uncomfortable echoes of the Post Office [Horizon IT] scandal”. Sky News understands that senior executives from the FTSE-100 telecoms giant will hold talks with MPs, including the Reform deputy…
Troll-like Labubu dolls have taken over the consumer world. Their creator, Pop Mart, has reported a near 400% net profit so far this year, while some have spent thousands on the toys second-hand. The frenzy over the furry dolls has led to huge queues outside the Chinese retailer’s stores, and even forced the company to…
An acclaimed author and historian of the libertarian movement fell to his death last week, his employer confirmed. The body of Brian Doherty, 57, senior editor of the libertarian magazine Reason, was found Thursday βafter a fallβ in the Battery Yates park portion of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the publication wrote. The National…
Ford is investing $5 billion to change the way it makes electric vehicles, a move the automaker says will allow it to manufacture models starting at $30,000 β far less than the current average price for an EV. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company on Monday said it will invest $2 billion to modernize its Louisville Assembly…
Dan Ziskie, the veteran TV actor best known for his work on the Netflix political drama series βHouse of Cardsβ and HBOβs βTreme,β has died. He was 80. Ziskie died July 21 in New York, his family announced in an obituary for the actor published on Legacy.com. Though his life βwas cut short by arteriosclerotic…
After Paul Dano came under unexpected fire from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in December, the βThere Will Be Bloodβ star received support from fellow artists including Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Stiller. A month after the drama, he is now returning the love. Dano finally publicly addressed Tarantinoβs controversial comments at the Sundance Film Festival during a…
The rise in gas prices over the past 48 hours is without precedent. Even in the chaotic opening weeks of the Ukraine war in 2022, the gas price never doubled. But that is precisely what has happened to wholesale methane prices in the UK. And since gas prices are arguably the single most important price…
Every week, our Money blog team finds the answer to a reader’s financial problem or consumer dispute. Here’s our latest… My husband is freelance and the breadwinner of the family. He is in hospital for an unknown length of time. Is there any support for us in the short term, so we can keep our…
As the Department of Transportation begins the process of overhauling the country’s air traffic control system β a $12 billion undertaking β there are already plans to integrate artificial intelligence into it in the future. Addressing fears that AI is meant to completely replace air traffic controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CBS News, “that’s…
This story is part of Imageβs October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. On a Wednesday evening in August, Celeste Perkins walked into El Atacor #1 in Cypress Park holding a towering three-tiered cake, frosted in American buttercream and airbrushed in oversaturated hues of red, green and blue. Thick, excessive piping…
