Tuesday, September 9
Earlier than Musk picked Yaccarino as Twitter CEO, she challenged him on insurance policies, and his personal tweets
Technology

Earlier than Musk picked Yaccarino as Twitter CEO, she challenged him on insurance policies, and his personal tweets

On Friday, Elon Musk introduced that NBC Universal’s Linda Yaccarino will function the brand new CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino is a longtime promoting govt credited with integrating and digitizing advert gross sales at NBCU. Her problem now will likely be to woo again advertisers which have fled Twitter since Musk acquired it final 12 months for $44 billion. ...
Eurovision: Sweden’s Loreen wins contest as Russian missiles hit dwelling city of Ukraine’s contestants
Entertainment

Eurovision: Sweden’s Loreen wins contest as Russian missiles hit dwelling city of Ukraine’s contestants

Sweden has received this 12 months's Eurovision Song Contest, with singer Loreen making historical past as the primary lady to win greater than as soon as after first taking the crown again in 2012.The 39-year-old's win for dance-pop anthem Tattoo additionally means Sweden has drawn stage with Ireland for the nation with essentially the most Eurovision wins - seven apiece. Image: Finland's Kaarija sings Cha Cha Cha Finland have been the runners up with quirky singer Kaarija's hyper-pop-rap tune Cha Cha Cha.The 29-year-old Finn had been a preferred act within the construct as much as the grand closing, arriving in his personal customised sauna van and posing up a storm on the pink carpet in his trademark neon inexperienc...
New menopause drug for warm flashes will get FDA approval
Health

New menopause drug for warm flashes will get FDA approval

WASHINGTON — U.S. well being regulators on Friday authorized a brand new sort of drug for girls coping with uncomfortable sizzling flashes attributable to menopause. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the once-a-day capsule from Astellas Pharma to deal with moderate-to-severe signs, which might em...
Effectively Wild Episode 2006: Not My Cup of D
Baseball

Effectively Wild Episode 2006: Not My Cup of D

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Akil Baddoo taking a baseball to the beans, broadcasters describing groin pictures, and gamers deciding whether or not to put on cups. Then they examine a resurgent Joey Gallo and a slumping Andrew Benintendi (20:25), recall reliever Zack Littell’s affinity for cruise ships (33:22), forecast MLB’s worldwide future (37:22), take into account the Dodgers’ secret Ugandan academy (47:06), talk about an replace on MLB’s integration of Negro Leagues stats (1:13:40), and assess their ranges of hysteria about game-fixing in mild of two school playing scandals (1:30:21), plus a Past Blast (1:42:35) from 2006. Audio intro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to Baddoo playLink to first cup tweetLin...
Did worry of apocalypse drive ‘doomsday mother’ Lori Vallow to homicide her kids?
US

Did worry of apocalypse drive ‘doomsday mother’ Lori Vallow to homicide her kids?

"I'm basically a ticking time bomb," Lori Vallow says with a large smile and amusing. She's talking on the Mrs Texas magnificence pageant in 2004 the place she is competing.At the time it will need to have appeared an innocuous remark about balancing dwelling and work life, however almost 20 years later the phrases tackle a extra chilling facet after she is discovered responsible of murdering her two kids and conspiracy to homicide her husband's ex-wife. Prosecutors say the mother-of-three turned obsessive about a coming non secular doomsday and believed her kids had been zombies whose our bodies needed to be destroyed so they might go to heaven.Vallow and her fifth husband Chad Daybell went from being followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to ...
Unfazed and surprisingly alert: Imran Khan warns of threats to Pakistan’s democracy after launch on bail
World

Unfazed and surprisingly alert: Imran Khan warns of threats to Pakistan’s democracy after launch on bail

Imran Khan was very unsure he'd make it out of the High Court on Friday evening, even after he'd been bailed for 2 weeks.His camp had heard rumours that he was about to be rearrested on one other cost. But he ultimately did handle to get on the highway, driving via the early hours of the morning to get again to Lahore.We have been making the identical journey, the highway littered along with his supporters, some who stayed up til gone 3am to greet him. After days of witnessing rocks being thrown, tear fuel fired, it felt like an incongruously upbeat second.Come morning, his barely bleary eyed followers have been gathered outdoors his compound. Some have arrange camp there, promoting meals and flags. We abruptly acquired a name from Mr Khan's safety staff telling us he'd agree...
UK politicians and enterprise individuals might be carefully watching the extradition of Mike Lynch
Business

UK politicians and enterprise individuals might be carefully watching the extradition of Mike Lynch

The extradition of Mike Lynch to the United States will undoubtedly alarm quite a lot of British enterprise individuals.Dr Lynch faces prices over Autonomy, the software program firm he based and which was purchased by Hewlett Packard in 2011 for $11bn. The US {hardware} maker subsequently wrote off $8bn of the acquisition value and has accused Dr Lynch of manipulating Autonomy's accounts.Central to Dr Lynch's try and keep away from extradition was that Autonomy was a British firm, listed on the London Stock Exchange, topic to British accounting guidelines and whose takeover was carried out beneath British takeover guidelines.Therefore, they argued, the British courts had been the place to listen to such a case. The UK courts discovered towards him on the grounds that Autonom...