Author: Alex Maschino
As French protesters took to the street this week over the country’s escalating debt crisis, poor school conditions, and political gridlock, retailers were caught in the crossfire. More than 3,000 businesses were looted or damaged over the weekend, according to Commerce Minister Serge Papin, including shops in Paris’s Les Halles district. Those shops included Hermes, North Face, and Louis Vuitton. Just hours after looters rummaged through stores at the sites of demonstrations, online listings of cosmetic and skincare products and handbags began popping up on e-commerce platforms, raising concerns of widespread resale of stolen goods. By Monday evening, Papin and…
Halloweentown’s fifth instalment is in early development at Disney — 28 years after the original film debuted. According to multiple outlets on Thursday, October 22, a new instalment of the franchise is being worked on and will air on Disney Channel and stream on Disney+ if it is greenlit. While no plot or cast details have been publicly released, the new incarnation comes 20 years after the last sequel, Return to Halloweentown, was released in 2006. Kimberly J. Brown, who starred in the first three Halloweentown movies as Marnie Piper, previously told Us that she would love to return to…
Former Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Oliver Kahn says Julian Nagelsmann would be taking an “enormous risk” going to Manchester United where “every manager fails sooner or later”. Nagelsmann is one of the leading candidates to take over should United dispense with Michael Carrick, who is on shaky ground with the club currently enduring their worst start to a league season in 40 years. Wednesday night’s 4-1 hammering at Como in the Champions League was another awful result and performance with captain Bruno Fernandes not helping Carrick by questioning his manager’s tactics in the media afterwards. Nagelsmann is believed to…
The proposal comes days after Pyongyang says it moved new military units into ‘firing positions’ along the border.Published On 23 Oct 202623 Oct 2026South Korea has proposed holding military talks with North Korea in a bid to calm rising tensions over their heavily fortified border.Seoul said on Friday that it had invited Pyongyang to discuss restoring communication channels. The offer was made as military activity on the border increases.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listTalks with North Korea would aim to “mutually confirm” the precise location of the land Military Demarcation Line (MDL), “discuss ways to restore military communication…
Lost alum Evangeline Lilly is opening up about her life after stepping away from Hollywood. The actress revealed her retirement from acting in 2024, though in a new interview with CBN News, she clarified that “it was actually 2020 [that I left Hollywood], so it’s been six years now. It’s been a long time of adjusting and discovering what this decision … what the consequences of it would be.” “There has definitely been moments of fear, of how do you consciously and intentionally let go of so much seemingly power, influence and potentially money?” Lilly, 47, said in the Friday,…
Canelo Alvarez attempts to reclaim his position atop the super-middleweight division later this month as he competes for the WBC super-middleweight world title against Christian Mbilli, and one 168lb titleholder has revealed that he is predicting a knockout win. Canelo lost all four of his super-middleweight world titles when trumped by Terence Crawford last year, but the latter’s retirement saw each belt either claimed by – or reassigned to – alternate super-middleweight contenders, with Mbilli picking up the WBC crown. Elsewhere, Osleys Iglesias got his hands on the IBF strap, Hamzah Sheeraz claimed and then vacated the WBO marble and…
Meta has agreed a deal with Mark Zuckerberg to stop the Facebook co-founder from leaving California after he threatened to move from the state because of a proposed tax on billionaires.The agreement allows Zuckerberg – reportedly one of the world’s richest people – to sell shares in Meta without losing control of the Californian-based company if he needs to pay a large tax bill.The measure, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on state residents with a net worth of more than $1bn (£750m), is yet to pass. Californian residents will vote on 3 November. Nevertheless, Zuckerberg secured a deal…
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped down from their responsibilities as senior working royals in 2020 and settled across the pond in Montecito, California, before deciding to move back to the United Kingdom. “It was never walking away, it was stepping back rather than stepping down. It was a really difficult environment as I think a lot of people saw,” Harry clarified on The Late Late Show With James Corden in 2021. “It was destroying my mental health. … I did what any husband and what any father would do, which is [say], ‘I need to get my…
Up to 10 teams are interested in Simon Edvinsson, who met with GM Shawn Horcoff last week TSN: Detroit Red Wings GM Shawn Horcoff had a face-to-face meeting with Simon Edvinsson and his agent J.P. Barry last Thursday and Friday, according to Pierre LeBrun, who added: “Everyone was laying their cards on the table with no resolution, of course, otherwise we wouldn’t be talking about it right now. But it’s a clear understanding, especially where the player is. He feels this has dragged out so long that the most logical option for him is probably a trade. He stopped short…