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Watch: Inside Kyiv’s ‘invincibility train’ for residents left without powerUkraine has declared a state of emergency in the country’s energy sector, with a particular focus on Kyiv, as ongoing Russian strikes continue to leave thousands of residents without power. President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of deliberately exploiting the harsh winter conditions as part of its war strategy, with overnight temperatures in Kyiv recently dropping to around -20C.The declaration comes as Zelensky’s US counterpart Donald Trump said he was holding up efforts to secure a peace deal to end nearly four years of war with Russia.He told the Reuters news agency…
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Ben Affleck’s kids were pumped to visit Matt Damon on the set of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but Affleck’s own movie sets? Not so much. Affleck, 53, and Damon, 55, dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, January 13, to promote their new movie The Rip, where Affleck revealed that he took his children to the set of the upcoming fantasy epic. The Argo director and actor shares three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13. “I’m a huge fan of Chris’,” Affleck said. “It’s one of those things where my kids…
Tottenham and Aston Villa each face discipline from the FA following a confrontation at the end of their FA Cup tie in North London. Tottenham and Aston Villa have each been charged with misconduct following a fracas between their two sets of players at the end of Saturday’s FA Cup third-round tie. The two teams were involved in a tussle at the conclusion of Villa’s 2-1 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. A statement from the Football Association read: “Tottenham Hotspur FC and Aston Villa FC have been charged with misconduct following their FA Cup match on Saturday 10 January. “It’s alleged that…
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College is expensive, and a growing number of skeptics have questioned its value proposition. Palantir CEO Alex Karp has said it doesn’t really matter where his employees went to college, and Apple CEO Tim Cook has said a four-year degree isn’t even required to work at the company. The rise of AI has only added to doubts of a degree’s value. But some economists say college still holds some implicit value, like teaching students things AI could never learn how to do. Carl Benedikt Frey is an economist at the University of Oxford and the author of a famous 2013…
Courtney Thorne-Smith reached a divorce settlement with her ex-husband Roger Fishman and her massive monthly income was revealed in the paperwork, Us Weekly can exclusively report. On Monday, January 12, Thorne-Smith, 58, submitted the settlement agreement she had hashed out with her ex-husband. Per the deal, the duo agreed “irreconcilable differences” was the cause for the divorce. The paperwork revealed Thorne-Smith pulls in around $50,000 per month in income, while Fishman makes around $60,000 per month. Thorne-Smith and Fishman wed on January 1, 2007, and split on September 1, 2021, after 14 years of marriage. The exes share an 18-year-old…
Muhammad Ali once named the heavyweight he feels would have caused him the most problems inside a boxing ring.Ali took on all comers during his glittering career, and was able to defeat the majority of them, claiming iconic victories over fellow greats such as George Foreman and Joe Frazier.Several defeats towards the end of his career meant that Ali finished with a record of 56 wins and 5 losses, but is is a man who retired undefeated that ‘The Greatest’ says would have been his hardest assignment.In a past interview with ESPN, Ali once explained why he thought it would…
Holy moly. Look at these phones. The floor is just littered with SIM cards. We’re in Myanmar. Only weeks after rebel fighters took control of a cyberscam center near the border with Thailand. For years, Chinese criminals have used ordinary office spaces like this in the middle of the jungle to target Americans in elaborate online fraud. OK, here we are, the nerve center of this multibillion-dollar industry that is scamming people all across the world. More than 3,000 people from dozens of countries were once employed here, joining an industry that has proliferated during Myanmar’s civil war. There’s just…
Sony Music Publishing Nashville has acquired independent publishing and artist development company Big Yellow Dog Music (BYD).The agreement means that SMP now owns and administers Big Yellow Dog’s catalog of songs and serves as publisher for its roster of songwriters.Founded in 1998 by Kerry O’Neil and Carla Wallace, Nashville-based Big Yellow Dog Music is home to a catalog of songs that includes Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass, Dear Future Husband, No and Like I’m Gonna Lose You, plus Maren Morris’ The Bones, My Church, 80’s Mercedes and I Could Use A Love Song.BYD’s catalog also includes songs from the…