FILE PHOTO: The logo of Facebook is seen in Davos, Switzerland Januar 20, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s competition watchdog has launched proceedings against Facebook for non-compliance with a previous request it had made regarding improper commercial practices in the group’s treatment of user data, the agency said on Friday. The procedure could
BEIJING (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s Shanghai Disney Resort will be closed from Saturday to help prevent the spread of a flu-like virus that broke out in the Chinese city Wuhan, killing 25 people and infecting more than 800, the theme park operator said. FILE PHOTO: Fireworks explode over the Shanghai Disney Resort during the
(Reuters) – Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) is set to face a fourth U.S. jury trial over allegations that its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer, with four cancer patients in the hometown of its agricultural subsidiary Monsanto scheduled to make their case beginning on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Logo and flags of Bayer AG are pictured outside
(Reuters) – About 8.9 million TV viewers watched the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, the first day Democrats laid out their case against the president, marking a significant drop from the roughly 11 million viewers who watched on Tuesday, according to Nielsen ratings data. The audience includes viewership from 1:00
(Photos: Creative Commons, Amazon) It’s a truth universally acknowledged that kids (like most dads) aren’t super great when it comes to gifting. First of all, they have no money and, second of all, they have even less sense; so it’s no surprise that they would be absolutely trash when it comes to sprinkling their loved
The 2020 Super Bowl is almost here and many of the ads that will air during the big game are already hitting the Internet. We’ve compiled some sneak peeks of commercials that are scheduled to air during Super Bowl LIT on Sunday, February 2. The Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will face off at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, home
Up-and-coming Japanese actress Nana Mori released the new animated music video accompanying her song “Henji wa iranai” (“No need to reply”), one of the tracks included in her new single “KAERUNOUTA.” The song is a cover of J-pop icon Yumi Matsutoya‘s debut single from 1972 (Her name was Yumi Arai at the time of release).
Stephanie Lancaster’s days of causing trouble are officially over. OWN has canceled Ambitions after one season, according to the show’s leading lady, Robin Givens. ”Found out last week that Ambitions wouldn’t be returning for a second season,” the actress wrote on Instagram. Ambitions explored the sexy, deceitful machinations of love, power and politics in America’s
Kanye West is a rapper, a songwriter, a record producer, an entrepreneur and a fashion designer and now we may be able to add casting director to his list of skills and occupations because he hit on a positively inspired choice of who could play him in a movie. Yes, apparently Kanye West once actually
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats on Thursday pressed their case at U.S. President Donald Trump’s Senate trial for removing him from office by using the words of his own allies against him to make the point that his actions constituted impeachment offenses, but his fellow Republicans showed no signs of turning against him. The Democratic House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top State Department official has been tasked with focusing on “the integrity of multilateral institutions,” including countering “malign influences” of China and others at the United Nations, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Thursday. Foreign Policy Magazine reported on Wednesday that Mark Lambert, most recently the U.S. special envoy for North
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – Guyana’s government next month plans to begin a search for an oil company or trading firm to market its share of the South American country’s crude, the director of the Department of Energy, Mark Bynoe, said in an interview. Mark Bynoe, the director of Guyana’s Department of Energy, talks to Reuters in
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actress Annabella Sciorra testified on Thursday that Harvey Weinstein pinned her hands behind her head and violently raped her more than 25 years ago, becoming the first accuser to take the stand against the former Hollywood producer in his sexual assault trial. “He had intercourse with me as I tried to
Born and raised in a patriarchal farming community infused with bent religion, nineteen-year-old Meyrick has spent the majority of her life encased in snow-dusted hills and trees. Stanch regulation leaves little room for teenage antics and Meyrick finds herself dreaming of a future far from the grasp of rural Alberta. As plans to leave for
Between the Earth and Heaven flows a sea without a shore. Faith Avalon, a junior at Zevon High, has no idea that her English assignment is about to make her a coffee-craving mariner on its otherworldly waves. The new kid, Tommy Connor, and her old friend Roy Belmont, the martial arts prodigy who studies with
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