Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour blockbuster has become the most profitable concert film in history – a week before it hits cinemas. Its distributor AMC said global advance ticket sales have topped $100m (£82m), overtaking the record set by Justin Bieber’s 2011 film Never Say Never which made $99m (£81m). The film, which was recorded during
This Labour Party conference will feel different. Unlike the Conservatives, they don’t need a big comeback moment to save them from dire polling, nor are there peacocking leadership hopefuls waiting in the wings (or at least, there is no looming vacancy). Instead, particularly after the massive win in the Rutherglen by-election, this is a party
Tesla prices have been falling all year, and today we’ve got another price cut to report on most trims of Tesla’s most popular models, leaving the Model 3 at the lowest price it’s ever been. Model Y – Long Range & Performance are $2k cheaper The Model Y Long Range and Model Y Performance are
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Tesla dealership in Colma, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla cut the price of some Model 3 and Model Y versions in the U.S. after the company reported third-quarter deliveries that missed market expectations.
Oil prices surged to their highest level in more than a year on Thursday. The U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures reached $95.03 per barrel, marking the highest cost since August 2022. Manan Vatsyayana | Afp | Getty Images India’s minister of petroleum and natural gas warned that there’ll be “organized chaos” if oil prices break
One thing that quite often puzzles people who do not work in financial markets is their tendency to treat seemingly good news as bad. We got a classic example on Friday with news that US employers added 336,000 jobs in September. That was up from 227,000 in August (a figure itself revised higher from the
A 36-year-old man has been charged over an alleged plot to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby. Gavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field, Harlow, has also been charged with soliciting to commit murder, incitement to commit rape and incitement to commit kidnap. The suspect is in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court later today.
JD Wetherspoon has credited a surge in sales and reduction in costs for its first annual profit since the COVID pandemic. The value pub and hotel chain, which trades from 826 sites across the UK and Ireland, reported profit before tax for the year to the end of July of £42.6m. That compared to a
At least 40 people have been killed in flooding in the Indian Himalayan region, officials have said. The flood began on Wednesday when the waters of the glacial South Lhonak lake breached a hydroelectric dam. That triggered flash flooding in the mountainous Sikkim state of northeastern India, impacting towns and villages along the Teesta River
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Thursday in an effort to compel the billionaire to testify over his purchase of Twitter last year. Attorneys representing the SEC alleged in a complaint filed in the Northern District of California that Musk failed to appear for a Sept. 15 testimony as required by
Sales of Chattanooga, Tennessee-built VW ID.4s rose more than 60% in Q3 year-over-year – but it’s nowhere near its 2023 target. Volkswagen of America released its third-quarter sales figures this week. Overall, the German auto giant’s sales in the US were down (-1.2%). Sales in its SUV category were down (-10.4%), and sales in the
The United States has shot down an armed Turkish drone operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said. It was the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey. Turkish drones had been seen carrying out airstrikes in Hasakah in Syria on Thursday morning in a so-called American “restricted operating
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial appears at Federal Court in New York on Oct. 4th, 2023. Artist: Claudia Johnson Marc-Antoine Julliard typically trades cocoa beans. But in the spring of 2021, the London-based commodities broker decided to diversify into cryptocurrency trading. His platform of choice was FTX. Two years later, Julliard stood as the prosecution’s first witness
Scottish Labour has won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. Michael Shanks replaces shamed MP Margaret Ferrier, who was ousted from her seat in August following a successful recall petition for breaching COVID restrictions during lockdown in 2020. Voters took to the polls between 7am and 10pm on Thursday and out of the 82,104 electorate,
Hand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of victims of a plane crash that killed former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Prigozhin was reportedly in a plane crash north of Moscow on 23 August, two months to the day after he led a failed mutiny against top Russian officials.
Oct 2, 2023, 10:24 AM ET Grant Dawson meets Bobby Green in the lightweight main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The fights at UFC Apex are on ESPN+, with the 7 p.m. ET main card preceded by prelims at 4 p.m. Dawson (20-1-1) is unbeaten in his most recent 12
Metro Bank has kicked off talks about the sale of a £3bn chunk of its mortgage book as part of an increasingly urgent attempt to shore up its fragile balance sheet. Sky News has learnt that advisers to Metro Bank – which saw its shares plunge on Thursday after acknowledging that it was seeking to
Voting has closed and counting is now under way to replace shamed MP Margaret Ferrier. Ms Ferrier was ousted from her Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat in August following a successful recall petition for breaching COVID restrictions in 2020. Voters took to the polls between 7am and 10pm on Thursday for the by-election, with Ms
A man who was encouraged by an artificial intelligence chatbot in his plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced to nine years in custody, but will remain in hospital until he is deemed fit enough to go to prison. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, scaled the perimeter of the Windsor Castle grounds with a
The trial of embattled crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried has begun – with prosecutors claiming he stole more than $10bn (£8.2bn) from unsuspecting customers. Almost a year after FTX spectacularly collapsed, leaving millions of people out of pocket, a court heard that the 31-year-old’s multibillion-dollar empire was “built on lies”. Bankman-Fried has been accused of using
Kawasaki has finally revealed the final specs as well as pricing for its first two electric motorcycles, the Kawasaki Ninja e-1 and Z e-1. Both bikes are now launching in North American markets (US and Canada) as well as in the UK. In the US, the Ninja e-1 will be priced at US $7,599, while
Ofcom said it received evidence showing Microsoft makes it less attractive for customers to run its Office productivity apps on cloud infrastructure other than Microsoft Azure. Igor Golovniov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket via Getty Images Britain’s anti-competition regulators have been tasked with investigating Microsoft and Amazon‘s dominance of the cloud computing market. Media watchdog
An off-shore oil platform off the coast in Huntington Beach, California on April 5, 2020. Leonard Ortiz | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register | Getty Images It’s been a war of words and numbers between two major players in the energy industry – the International Energy Agency and OPEC – as they spar over
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution signed an agreement to supply Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, with lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles that will be assembled in the U.S., the companies said on Wednesday. The deal will support Toyota’s expanding battery EV line-up, which includes a new model that will be assembled at a manufacturing plant
The competition regulator is to investigate the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in the UK’s cloud market. It follows a study by the telecoms watchdog Ofcom which “identified features that make it more difficult for UK businesses to switch and use multiple cloud suppliers”. Ofcom added: “We are particularly concerned about the position of the
Stormzy joined thousands of mourners who gathered in south London to honour the life of 15-year-old stabbing victim Elianne Andam. The grime artist was seen among crowds at a candlelit vigil on Wednesday evening outside Whitgift Shopping Centre in Croydon, where the teenager was fatally wounded a week earlier. Elianne died after being attacked on
The extradition order of a rape suspect accused of faking his own death to the US has been approved by Scottish ministers. Nicholas Rossi, who claims he is an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight, has been at the centre of a long-running extradition battle in Edinburgh and a court ruled in August that he should
Joe Biden’s dog Commander has been removed from the White House after biting agents and staff. The two-year-old German shepherd had attacked members of the US Secret Service 10 times between October 2022 and January 2023. One female officer recently required medical treatment. Image: Commander was a gift to the US president from his brother
British actress Julia Ormond is suing disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in 1995. Ormond, who starred in films alongside Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford in the 1990s, said she was a star on the rise when she met Weinstein in 1994. The pair kept in touch to discuss scripts
Japan’s hesitancy toward EVs is taking its toll on automakers in China. Nissan’s sales are plummeting after failing to keep up with EV leaders like Tesla and BYD. Slow EV transition is costing Nissan in China Nissan is struggling to keep up in the largest EV market globally as sales continue to slide. The Japanese
In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amp, a live audio app that lets users DJ their own show, is seen on a smartphone. Amazon Amazon is shutting down its live audio service, called Amp, the company confirmed to CNBC. Amp allows users to host their own live show, where callers can
Just Stop Oil protesters have halted a West End performance of Les Miserables after invading the stage. During the song One Day More, where an actor waves the famous red flag, members of the group stormed the stage with banners emblazoned with Just Stop Oil. A video shows the actors on stage continuing to perform
Pope Francis photographed on August 9, 2023, in Vatican City. Vatican Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images Pope Francis issued a stark reminder about the effects of climate change on Wednesday, warning that “the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.” “Despite all attempts to deny,