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...Billed as a “love story for the ages”, Channel 4’s new romantic drama Alice & Jack offers a viewing experience more akin to a disappointing date....
...An affecting human drama at its core, Truelove really doesn’t need to flirt with other genres. ★★★☆☆ First episode streaming now on Channel 4. Next episode on January 4 at 9pm....
...On Wednesday, the Facebook parent detailed charges of $4.6bn related to restructuring....
...December’s event in New York failed to halt the performance (“Five stars for the Met’s Tannhäuser, despite climate protest disruption”, Music, December 4)....
...Disney acquired the Indian broadcaster Star with its 2019 purchase of 21st Century Fox....
...The top five global advertising sellers — Google, Meta, ByteDance (which runs TikTok), Alibaba and Amazon — have increased advertising revenue 25.4 per cent on a compound annual basis from 2016 to 2022....
...Sweden enjoyed a frantic padel boom during the pandemic, with the number of courts surging from around 500 in 2019 to more than 4,000 currently....
...It was July 4 2022 and we were on a quest: North Dakota was state number 33 in our mission to visit all 50....
...Without them, the S&P 500’s rise of 14 per cent at that point shrank to a miserly 4 per cent....
...Davide Giusti sings Rodolfo and Rebecca Krynski Cox stars as Mimi....
...Michael Winum, Fabrice Scott and Maxime de Toledo star....
...Moreover, while the UK was appointing a string of defence secretaries with no background in defence, their US counterparts ranged from a senior CIA officer to a four-star general from the Marine Corps....
...I saw a similar set on 1stDibs for £4,500 recently.”...
...Martin Rapaport, chair of the Rapaport Group, said stronger US sanctions enforcement together with EU measures to ban Russian diamonds would be powerful in reducing the $4.2bn of revenue Alrosa made in 2021...
...US networks Fox and NBCUniversal reported that advertising revenue was falling, while publishers such as News Corp, The New York Times and the UK’s Reach have posted declines....
...According to Nasa inspector-general Paul Martin, each Artemis launch will cost about $4.1bn — a figure he calls “unsustainable”. This is eight times more than Nasa estimated a decade ago....
...One good read This investigation of sketchy charitable foundations of American football stars finds a consultant who charges the jocks a fee that would make a hedge fund manager blush....
...This year may bring with it star wars, as space — the “final economic frontier” — becomes the focus of a global race for dominance by both public and private actors....
...Set in April 2024, Channel 4’s new alternate-future drama finds Britain in an even more unstable situation than today....
...The pile-in from three activist investors shows just how far Salesforce’s star has fallen....
...Consumption will continue to decline in 2023 and 2024, the US Energy Information Administration forecast yesterday. 4....
...Sinochem Holdings Corp absorbed ChemChina last year. The IPO should further reduce Syngenta’s debt load, which last year fell from 4.9 times ebitda to 3.9 times, according to Moody’s....
...There is no such thing as “data”, it isn’t worth anything and it doesn’t belong to you anyway, says Benedict Evans. 4....
...Its star was a short, gruff-talking man named Volodymyr Zelenskyy....
...Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley, led by star investment banker Michael Grimes, raced to locate equity investors to buy into the takeover and lower Musk’s financial burden....
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