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Amber Heard criticises social media as she reacts to Blake Lively’s complaint about Justin Baldoni

Actor Amber Heard has said social media is where lie becomes truth after Blake Lively accused co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment. In a...

Politics

Sir Keir Starmer heading abroad for New Year’s Day

Sir Keir Starmer is to head abroad over the New Year after spending Christmas Day at Chequers in Buckinghamshire. The prime minister is enjoying...

Business

Cadbury ‘disappointed’ after losing royal warrant it has held since 1854

Cadbury says it is “disappointed” after losing its royal warrant after 170 years. The chocolate maker behind festive favourites such as Heroes and Dairy...

Technology

Mark Zuckerberg went all in on Meta’s AI strategy this year. The pressure builds in 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries on Orion AR glasses at the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S.,...

Sports

World Junior Championship preview: Top contenders, key players to watch

Rachel Doerrie, ESPNDec 23, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Rachel Doerrie is a professional data consultant specializing in data communication and modelling. She’s worked...

Environment

MicroStrategy rides ‘red sweep’ to 477% gain in 2024, topping almost all U.S. stocks

Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer at MicroStrategy, during an interview at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida, US, on Thursday,...

Business

Aviva agrees to buy Direct Line for £3.7bn

Aviva has agreed a deal to buy rival company Direct Line for £3.7bn ahead of a Christmas Day deadline. The insurance firm announced the...

Science

Rocket Lab Delays Launch of Synspective’s Earth-Imaging Satellite

Rocket Lab’s planned mission to deploy a radar-imaging satellite for the Japanese company Synspective faced a setback when the launch attempt on December 20,...

Business

Honda and Nissan announce plans to merge after the Japanese car giants struggle to match rivals in electric vehicles

Japanese car giants, Honda and Nissan, have announced plans to merge. That would make them the third largest car maker by sales, behind Toyota...

Science

Arctic Siberia Summers 10 Degree Celsius Warmer in Last Interglacial

A study currently under review in Climate of the Past has reported that Arctic Siberia experienced summer temperatures up to 10 degree Celsius warmer...

Science

Biodegradable Microbeads Could Replace Plastic Exfoliants in Skincare Products

A degradable microbead made from a polymer has been developed by researchers, potentially replacing plastic exfoliants in skin cleansers. These beads break down into...

Business

UK economy showed no growth in last quarter, revised figures show

The UK economy showed no growth in the last quarter, according to the revised figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The previous...

How the lives of the few child amputees allowed to leave Gaza are being rebuilt elsewhere

Warning: This story contains distressing images To find safety from Gaza, you need first to become the victim of a catastrophic injury and then...

World

How the lives of the few child amputees allowed to leave Gaza are being rebuilt elsewhere

Warning: This story contains distressing images To find safety from Gaza, you need first to become the victim of a catastrophic injury and then...

Politics

UK economy heading for ‘worst of all worlds’, CBI warns – as businesses expect fall in activity

The UK economy is “headed for the worst of all worlds” as businesses expect activity to fall at the start of next year, according...

Business

UK economy heading for ‘worst of all worlds’, CBI warns – as businesses expect fall in activity

The UK economy is “headed for the worst of all worlds” as businesses expect activity to fall at the start of next year, according...

Sports

Day’s Buckeyes had that ‘look’ in rout of Vols

Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterDec 22, 2024, 12:03 AM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before...

Sports

Sources: Steve Belichick to join dad at UNC as DC

Pete Thamel, Senior College Sports InsiderDec 22, 2024, 05:10 PM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday. Open Extended...

Woman set on fire while on New York subway

Police have launched a murder investigation after a woman was set on fire while on a subway train in New York. Detectives say the...

World

Nine-year-old boy killed in German Christmas market attack named as Andre Gleissner

The mother of a nine-year-old boy killed in the German Christmas market attack has paid tribute to “my little teddy bear”. Andre Gleissner was...