US banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4bn of gold bullion weighing more than 937 tons to New York this month, before an anticipated escalation of Donald Trump’s trade-rebalancing tariff moves planned for Saturday. The US bank, the world’s biggest bullion dealer, said it would deliver the hefty raw material, weighed as 30m troy ounces…
An Iranian court has sentenced the popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, according to local media reports. “The supreme court accepted the prosecutor’s objection” to a previous five-year jail term on offences including blasphemy, the reformist newspaper Etemad reported on Sunday. It said…
A man who was among four pedestrians hit by a car on Christmas Day in the West End of London has died in hospital, the Metropolitan police said. They named him as Aidan Chapman. Chapman, 25, was seriously injured in the incident on Shaftesbury Avenue and died on New Year’s Eve. Police said they were…
Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in NYC on Sept. 28th, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is offering to take over the rest of Howard Hughes Holdings the investment firm does not own for $85 a share. “While we are pleased with the substantial…
The LA Galaxy traded MLS Cup Final MVP Gastón Brugman to Nashville on Thursday, just 12 days after the Uruguayan midfielder led the club to its record sixth league championship. The Galaxy acquired midfielder Sean Davis from Nashville, which will retain a portion of Davis’ salary budget charge for next year. Brugman was named the…
Chris Ewokor & Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Abuja Getty Images Self-defence groups have been formed to help fight militant groups Nigeria’s authorities have officially declared the Lakurawa armed group – which flogs people for listening to music – a terrorist organisation and banned it across the country. Lakurawa is a new militant group which carries…
Taylor Swift came bearing gifts to her Eras Tour concert in New Orleans on Saturday night. The singer dressed in orange announced that the rules of her surprise set had changed. This means she will not sing one of her songs but rather of the surprise guests. She then strummed the chord of Espresso by…
A Washington state woman has been charged in the fatal shooting of a US border patrol agent during a Vermont traffic stop that happened days after authorities began watching her and a German companion, who also died in the highway shootout, the FBI said on Friday. Teresa Youngblut, 21, faces two weapons charges in connection…
La Hacienda Bakery has been making its rounds — literally. The Houston bakery, located in a strip mall at 180 Uvalde Road in the Timberwood area, first went viral on TikTok in October for its seasonal concha rellenas, or stuffed conchas, which are loaded with a pumpkin-spice filling and shaped and colored orange just like…
A mega plantation drive by Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank to plant 500 saplings on the JSS Mahavidyapeeth Campus in Dharwad being launched by bank chairman Shrikant M. Bhandiwad on Friday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT To mitigate further damage to the environment caused by deforestation, there is an urgent need to plant more saplings, nurture…
