Warren Buffett poses with Martin, the Geico gecko, ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder’s Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. Grogan | CNBC Warren Buffett went on bit of a shopping spree in the stock market before Christmas, picking up shares of Occidental Petroleum among others during a swift December…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses the gathering during the inauguration of the Integrated Check Post, a newly constructed passenger terminal and a cargo gate at the India-Bangladesh land border crossing, in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, on October 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (October 27,…
Black men in England are more likely to be diagnosed with late-state prostate cancer than their white counterparts, while being less likely to receive life-saving treatment, analysis by the National Prostate Cancer Audit has found. The analysis found that black men were diagnosed with stage three or four prostate cancer at a rate of 440…
Play video content TikTok / @viceplayer28 Khabib Nurmagomedov was taken off a flight over the weekend following a seating disagreement with the airline’s staff. The incident, which took place on a flight leaving Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport on Saturday, was captured on video and posted to social media. In the video, you hear…
A bid to free five elephants from a Colorado zoo has been rejected after a court ruled elephants are not people. An animal rights group argued Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo were effectively imprisoned at the zoo, and had filed to have them moved to an elephant sanctuary. It tried to bring a habeas…
Lynn Ban, a celebrity jewellery designer from Singapore who starred in the Netflix reality show Bling Empire, has died a month after undergoing brain surgery following a ski accident. Her son Sebastian confirmed her death on an Instagram post on Wednesday, where he paid tribute to his 51-year-old mum as a “best friend and the…
A selection of news photographs from around the world. Luis Tato/AFP A Maasai warrior competes in a traditional high-jump event at the Maasai Olympics in Kajiado, Kenya. Roberta Ciuccio/AFP Residents of Coronationville queue for water amid a continuing crisis in water supplies in Johannesburg, South Africa. Roman Pilipey/AFP Anna and her mother wait to be…
Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to end the war in Ukraine. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, he said that by pushing to settle the war he was doing Russia and its president a “very big favour”. Trump had previously…
Pharmacies are demanding tougher regulation of the online sale of weight-loss jabs amid a predicted new year’s boom in demand. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), who represent independent community pharmacies, urged the regulator to require greater consultation with patients before dispensing weight-loss jabs and other high-risk medication online. Current rules, the NPA said, “leaves the…
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple is losing market share in China due to declining iPhone shipments, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a report on Friday. The stock slid 2.4%. “Apple has adopted a cautious stance when discussing 2025 iPhone production plans with key suppliers,” Kuo, an analyst at TF Securities,…
