Lisa Nandy to ask regulators to assess mega-merger involving Channel 5, CNN and TNT Sports on grounds of media plurality and competition The UK culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, intends to ask the British media and competition watchdogs to examine Paramount’s $110bn (£85bn) acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. The WBD takeover deal will create a media powerhouse controlling assets including: the Hollywood studios behind franchises including Superman, Batman and Top Gun; the UK’s Channel 5; news ch
Programme defending benefits of immigration attracts double number of applicants expected More than one million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers have applied to regularise their status in Spain under a government programme to harness and defend the benefits of immigration at a time when most European countries are pulling up the drawbridge. Although the massive regularisation initiative, announced by the socialist-led government in January, was originally intended to benefit around 500,0
Images released by the Moscow region's governor, Gov. Andrei Vorobyov, on Tuesday appear to show damage to a home in the town of Yegoryevsk, following a Ukrainian drone attack overnight.
Pope Leo XIV issued an extraordinary last-minute plea Tuesday to a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group to abandon plans to consecrate four bishops without Vatican approval, warning the move was a "sin of extreme gravity" and could deepen a decades-old split with the Church. In a letter addressed to the Rev. Davide Pagliarani, leader of the Society of St. Pius X, Leo urged the group to reconsider before Wednesday's planned ceremony in Econe, Switzerland, saying it would place the bishops invo
For USA’s 250th birthday, we asked Canadians what they would say and give to their southern neighbour.
Fox News · Oct 8
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Dane Myers needed to be carted off the field after a play that could be a candidate for "Catch of the Year" turned scary after he crashed into the fence in Milwaukee on Monday night. Milwaukee Brewers veteran Andrew Vaughn smashed a ball to center field in the bottom of the fourth inning, and Myers got a great jump as he started to track the ball. As he sprinted toward the gap, Myers reached up and made an acrobatic catch, but he lost his balance and was too close
Fox News · Oct 8
Stephen A. Smith emphasized how socialism could threaten the Democratic Party's presidential goals for 2028 if it embraces democratic socialist candidates like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. During his "Straight Shooter" show on Monday, Smith reacted to Mamdani's claims on ABC News that a democratic socialist "can get elected anywhere across this country for any position." Though Smith agreed with Mamdani on concerns about the wealth gap and the working class, he bristled at the idea of the
ABC News · Oct 8
A blast from an explosive device has seriously injured three people at a residential building in Monaco
NBC News · Oct 8
Officials in Venezuela say the death toll from the back-to-back earthquakes last week has risen to more than 1,700 people. It comes as rescue teams from around the world continue to comb through the rubble of toppled building for survivors. The United Nations estimates the death toll could climb as high as 10,000 people.
