'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' Premiere
Actors attend the 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' premiere on January 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California.
Actors attend the 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' premiere on January 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California.
The Fed chair this week doused any hope homebuyers still had that mortgage rates would soften anytime soon.
Wall Street strategists are becoming less confident in small cap stocks as Fed rate cut hopes diminish.
There’s a growing movement to reimagine old clothes and shoes into upcycled fashion finds Victoria Moss
The 13th album from the Manchester pioneers blends familiarity with no shortage of new ideas, spanning introspection to jubilance
There are a host of psychological, physical and social components that seem to make those around 30+ gravitate towards this huge running goal.
The Tortured Poets Department is rumoured to be about Joe Alwyn. So does he have anything to worry about?
The Australian actress has cancelled her Australian book tour to promote her tell-all memoir, Rebel Rising, due to delays in the book's publication. Rebel was scheduled to host an event in Brisbane on 12 May and in Melbourne on 14 May. On Thursday, the actress took to her Instagram Stories to give an update on when her memoir will be released in the U.K. and Australia. "I'm really excited for U.K. and Australian readers to finally get to read REBEL RISING! New U.K. publishing date is 25 Apr and in Aus its 8 May."
TORONTO — As Canada’s biggest bookstore-turned-gift-giver’s-paradise edges toward privatization, it's evident from a stroll around one of its Toronto stores that the retailer knows some things haven’t been working. Epsom salts and body lotions that previously lined Indigo Books & Music Inc.’s wellness area at the Eaton Centre have been replaced by shelves of books and tchotchkes like cat- and corgi-shaped book lights, magnifying glasses and lap desks. In the children’s section, a red velvet curt
Betting shop revenue was down 7%, while UK online sports revenue dipped by 1%
Schneider Electric is in talks with U.S. engineering software producer Bentley Systems over a potential "strategic transaction", it said on Friday without elaborating, sending the French company's shares down 2%. Reuters reported on Thursday that Bentley Systems, which has a market value of nearly $16 billion, was exploring options including a sale after attracting acquisition interest. Schneider, which specialises in equipment to manage energy supply to homes, industry and data centres, has sought to grow its software business through acquisitions in recent years.
A couple renovating the kitchen of a 17th century cottage found a £35,000 coin hoard hidden under the floor.
The former president has “already had not only one but two bites of the apple," said Andrew Weissmann.
This season’s exciting Premier League title race has been much discussed, but the chase for the automatic promotion spots in the Championship is shaping up to be just as dramatic.
The cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction have reunited in Los Angeles to mark three decades of the cult classic.
Israel was reported to have attacked Iran on Friday following apparent explosions the Middle Eastern country. American broadcast networks quoting unnamed US officials said Israel carried out an attack.Iranian state media said Tehran had fired air defence batteries early on Friday morning after following reports of explosions near the city of Isfahan. Tensions have risen in the region after Iran's unprecedented missile-and-drone attack on Israel on Saturday night.
An attack on pro-government fighters by suspected members of the Islamic State group in central Syria killed 22 pro-government fighters, an opposition war monitor and pro-government media reported Friday. Gunmen attacked a bus carrying members of the Quds Brigade, a government and Russian-backed faction of mostly Palestinian fighters in Syria, near the town of Sukhna late Thursday night. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but both the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based opposition war monitor, and the pro-government radio station Sham FM said IS was behind the attack.
San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.” San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA.
The 3.2% inflation figure led City traders to bet that rates may not be cut until the Autumn
Private equity firm Blackstone Inc is nearing a deal to sell its controlling stake in South Korean wholesale drug distributor Geo-Young to North Asian buyout fund MBK Partners for over $1 billion, three sources said. Blackstone is in final negotiations with Seoul-headquartered MBK about the sale and signing of the deal could happen soon, said one of the sources, who all declined to be named as the information is confidential. Representatives from Blackstone, MBK and Geo-Young declined to comment.
China is widely expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged on Monday, a Reuters survey showed, as encouraging first quarter economic data reduces the urgency for further monetary stimulus to aid a fragile recovery. The loan prime rate (LPR) normally charged to banks' best clients is calculated each month after 20 designated commercial banks submit proposed rates to the People's Bank of China (PBOC). Most new and outstanding loans in the world's second-largest economy are based on the one-year LPR, which stands at 3.45%.