Sergeant Kyle Wallace, with the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, said Papini's demeanor was "pretty hostile" when he went to interview her about surviving an alleged kidnapping.
The founding family of Japan's Seven & i Holdings has approached KKR & Co and other investment firms about participating in the potential buyout of the retailer, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday. In addition to KKR, the founding Ito family also approached Bain Capital and Apollo Global Management due to the view it will be difficult to secure sufficient capital from banks, the Nikkei reported. Funding for the proposed buyout will be finalised by the end of December and will involve Japan's three largest lenders, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
George Russell put Mercedes on the pole for the Las Vegas Grand Prix in an upset over teammate Lewis Hamilton, who had been considered the favorite but struggled in Friday night's final qualifying session. “It feels incredible to be back on pole, we've been so quick all weekend,” Russell said of the fourth pole of his career. Hamilton was fastest in the first two practice sessions of the weekend with Russell fastest in Friday night's third and final session.
Weather warnings are in place across the island of Ireland until later on Saturday morning.
At least 11 people have been killed and 23 injured in an Israeli strike on central Beirut, Lebanese authorities have said. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the attack "completely destroyed" an eight-storey residential building in the Basta neighbourhood early on Saturday. Footage broadcast by Lebanon's Al Jadeed station also showed at least one destroyed building and several others badly damaged around it.
State of Happiness BBC Four, 9pm and 9.45pm One of the best Scandinavian dramas of the past decade returns for a third series. While the subject matter – the development of Norway’s North Sea oil fields in the 1970s – might not sound the most thrilling on paper, it’s the setting (the small fishing port of Stavanger, transformed into a boom town) and characters – particularly the lead female roles of Anna Hellevik (Anne Regine Ellingsæter) and Toril Torstensen (Malene Wadel) – that stand out, dri
Oppo has brought back its high-end Find X series smartphones to overseas markets in a renewed international push, as Chinese Android handset vendors step up expansion efforts amid cutthroat competition at home. The Chinese smartphone giant - the world's fourth-largest handset vendor by shipments last quarter, according to research firm IDC - on Thursday held the global launch of its new Find X8 and Find X8 Pro in Bali, Indonesia. The launch comes after a two-year hiatus for Oppo's flagship devic
US president-elect Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, to be the country's next Treasury secretary, a key player in carrying out what is expected to be a tough economic agenda against China. "I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States," Trump said in a statement released on Truth Social. "Scott is widely respected as one of the world's foremost international investors and geopolitical and economic st
Analysts in the US are looking for signs of how the Donald Trump administration will shape policy on Taiwan, a potential flashpoint between the world's two major powers, with opinions consistently divided over what direction the president-elect will take. Some fear Trump could use the self-ruled island as a bargaining chip to seek economic concessions from Chinese leader Xi Jinping while others say a compromise with Beijing on Taiwan issues could generate strong political resistance Trump would
Donald Trump’s US election victory is a “wake-up call” for Europe to slash red tape and boost defence spending, three of the bloc’s top officials have warned.
The No 2 US envoy warned on Friday that the ties between China and Russia are growing and threatening the interests of Washington and its allies, two months before the current administration turns over control of the government to Donald Trump. Speaking at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell also said that US President Joe Biden's administration worked to avert the growing China-Russia partnership, which is "only coming into view" and co
China envisions Hong Kong's capital markets as a beacon of prosperity, having lifted the city out of social chaos in June 2020. This week, Beijing backed that goal with vocal support at an investment summit attended by CEOs of global banks and money managers. Do global investors share the optimism? The question has never been more pertinent as the US ushers in president-elect Donald Trump in January. His economic policies will roil global markets, based on campaign speeches. Hong Kong, caught in
The EU's supply chain deal with Namibia amid a drive to reduce dependence on China may be benefiting Chinese firms instead, according to a policy brief. The November 2022 agreement was the European Union's first with an African nation. It was expected to help the bloc diversify its energy sources and gain access to critical raw materials (CRMs) for green technology as it seeks to boost industrial capacity and de-risk energy supply chains from China. In turn, it would help mineral-rich Namibia to
The US government put more than two dozen Chinese companies on a blacklist meant to block imports of products made with forced labour, bringing the number of targeted firms to more than 100. Products made by the 29 companies added to the Department of Homeland Security's Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act (UFLPA) entity list range from hi-tech inputs, such as polysilicon, to food products like tomato paste, according to the department's announcement on Friday. The restrictions will take effect o
Zhang Jun assiduously followed the news as Chancay port in Peru was developed into the biggest deep water project of its kind on the long Pacific coast of South America. His Nanjing-based company, Jiangsu Haosanyou Information Technology, helps shippers of marine cargo find business along China's supply chains via the internet. For Zhang, the US$3.5 billion mega-port, which was inaugurated on November 14, foreshadows a boom in Chinese e-commerce in Latin America, where conventional Chinese trade
The family which has owned Ann Summers, the lingerie and sex toy retailer, for more than half a century is to explore options for the business which could include a partial or majority sale. Sky News has learnt that the Gold family is close to hiring Interpath, the corporate advisory firm, to work on a strategic review which could lead to the disposal of a big stake in the chain. Retail industry sources said this weekend that Ann Summers had been in talks with Interpath for several weeks, although it has yet to be formally instructed.
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — The United Nations' annual climate talks pushed into overtime Saturday as negotiators pressed on to get a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change.
Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least four people and injured dozens in central Beirut, as diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire. (AP Video by Ali Sharafeddine)
Blenheim Palace is closing the light trial around its gardens, Christmas market and ice rink.
The party and its allies are however looking at a defeat in the mining state of Jharkhand.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government said Saturday it will not attend a memorial service near Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines due to disagreements with Tokyo over the event, which stirred longstanding tensions over the abuse of Korean forced laborers at the site before the end of World War II.
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