Nicola Sturgeon has accused Boris Johnson of being “frightened of democracy” and said she will seek a “legal referendum” on Scottish independence. Scotland’s first minister claimed the prime minister “fears the verdict and the will of the Scottish people” over his refusal to agree to another independence vote. It comes after the Scottish National Party
Mike Speiser Source: CNBC Venture capitalist Mike Speiser had a historic 2020. His firm, Sutter Hill Ventures, turned an initial investment of less than $200 million in Snowflake into a stake worth $12 billion after its IPO in September. Sutter Hill amassed its fortune in the cloud software vendor in a unique way. The typical
John Lennon was “bubbling over with excitement” about returning to the UK in a phone call the night before he was assassinated in New York, according to a newly released letter by his aunt. The former Beatle was shot and killed outside his home in Manhattan on 8 December 1980 by Mark Chapman. The following
EXCLUSIVE: Comcast-owned Sky is working on its first series with Shameless creator Paul Abbott — a crime drama titled Wolfe, which will feature Guerrilla and Rogue One actor Babou Ceesay as a brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist. The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky
To follow up his 2017 breakout indie hit God’s Own Country, Francis Lee found inspiration in the story of a little-known British fossil collector named Mary Anning. For Ammonite, he embellished what little is known about Anning, fashioning a romantic story for her, and cast Kate Winslet as the enigmatic heroine and Saoirse Ronan as
Junior Mance, the jazz pianist and educator who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Dinah Washington, and countless greats, has died, The Washington Post and The New York Times report. Mance died in his Manhattan home on January 17. His wife Gloria Clayborne Mance told the Times that he had suffered a brain hemorrhage caused
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ET surprised the singer with a special interviewer as she opened up about how her difficult year helped her create her new album ‘Shake The Spirit.’
Rising coronavirus infection rates, and the accompanying wave of lockdowns across Europe, should prompt managers to spend more time considering their employees’ mental health, according to the CEO of staffing group Adecco. “Especially with … the second wave of lockdowns coming in, we need more emotionally intelligent leaders, because we see that many people are
It is still a “long, long, long way” before coronavirus cases are low enough for lockdown to be lifted, the health secretary has told Sky News. Matt Hancock said “early evidence” shows tough restrictions around the UK are starting to bring the number of new infections down, but he warned the NHS remains under “enormous”
US President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response as US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) looks on before signing executive orders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Like many in the tech industry, Amazon has cozied up
“It’s the century of the brown man and the yellow man, and God save everybody else,” asserts Balram Halwai, the servant-turned-entrepreneur whose rise we follow in The White Tiger, towards the end of the tale. Newcomer Adarsh Gourav stars in the story of the poor kid from an Indian village who claws his way up
Perry Botkin Jr., the Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning TV and film composer known for creating the The Young And The Restless theme, has died. Botkin’s friend and The Happy Days of Garry Marshall writer John Scheinfeld announced the musician’s death on Facebook, noting that the he died on Monday. He was 87. “Today I share the
Another week during the coronavirus pandemic, another grim milestone for Los Angeles County. Los Angeles has exceeded 15,000 total coronavirus-related deaths, Public Health officials announced on Saturday. The county has counted a total of 15,162 deaths and 1,064,887 confirmed Covid-19 cases. Saturday’s stats show 269 new deaths and 10,537 new cases. There are also 6,881
Eminem debuted his new video for his song “Higher” during ESPN’s UFC 257 Countdown: Poirier vs. McGregor 2 pre-show on ABC. The clip for the Music To Be Murdered By – Side B track features footage from ESPN’s coverage of the Ultimate Fighting Championship alongside Eminem in a boxing ring performing the song. At one
Military fantasy books are a sub-genre that examines the lifecycle of war in fantasy settings. The lifecycle of war is made up of the brewing conflict before war, the violence during war, and the destructive aftermath of war. Oftentimes military fantasy interacts with other sub-genres such as epic fantasy, high fantasy, and gritty fantasy. Now,
It feels like this past year, Indian beauty standards have had a lot of bad press. And for good reason – the Indian archetype for women can feel overwhelmingly narrow – or at least they did when I would flick through the Indian magazines we had at home. The women pictured were so fair-skinned they
More from Entertainment Tonight: http://bit.ly/1xTQtvw The supermodel tells ET she’s so proud of the show’s final champion.