Elon Musk on Thursday said he has hired someone to replace him as boss of Twitter and its newly named X Corporation parent.. "Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter," Musk said in a tweet, without disclosing the name of his replacement but adding that she would start in the job in about six weeks.
It's a White House divided -- not over politics but the NBA playoffs as Vice President Kamala Harris cheers on the Golden State Warriors and her husband Doug Emhoff backs the Los Angeles Lakers.. Game 6 in the Warriors-Lakers series is in Los Angeles on Friday.
American news channel CNN Thursday defended its live appearance of Donald Trump following a deluge of criticism after the ex-president used the "town hall" interview to repeat falsehoods and hurl insults.. The 76-year-old frontrunner for the Republican nomination repeated his false claim that the 2020 election had been rigged for President Joe Biden, which Collins pointed out was a lie.
Vincent Van Gogh's feverish final months in a French village, when he churned out masterpieces even as he spiralled into despair, are the subject of a one-off exhibition opening this week in Amsterdam.. What makes the exhibition unique is that all its paintings are arranged in chronological order, from the first painting when Vincent arrived in the village until his very last work, "Tree Roots", painted two days before his death.
From R-rated sci-fi to teen biker gang adventures, streaming platforms are locked in an intensifying battle for dominance in one of the entertainment sector's hottest and most lucrative mediums: anime.. - Breaking open the market - Last year, Disney+ announced exclusive streaming rights to season two of smash-hit teen biker gang saga "Tokyo Revengers", part of a lucrative deal with publishing giant Kodansha.
Subscribers to Disney Plus fell for the second straight quarter, the company said on Wednesday, though it stemmed financial losses as it competes with Netflix for viewers.. Total subscribers to Disney Plus fell to 157.8 million, the Burbank, California-based group said, with the company losing $659 million in its streaming unit, though this was not as bad as expected.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said Wednesday it would examine the provenance of "several hundred or more" objects that were possibly stolen from their country of origin, and then return them where necessary.. "We will broaden, expedite, and intensify our research into all works that came to the museum from art dealers who have been under investigation," he wrote.
Fans flocked to a Sao Paulo park Wednesday to say an emotional farewell to Brazil's "Queen of Rock," the trailblazing singer-songwriter Rita Lee, who died this week at age 75.. She died Monday at home in Sao Paulo, her family said.
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, set to leave office after losing a general election, announced Wednesday that she and her husband have filed for divorce.. From steering her country into NATO to headlines about partying, Sanna Marin was Finland's most popular prime minister in decades but nonetheless proved a polarising figure.
The publisher of the British tabloid The Mirror, accused by Prince Harry and other celebrities of unlawful information gathering, apologised at the opening of a trial in London on Wednesday.. At the start of the trial on Wednesday, the publisher admitted "some evidence" of unlawful information gathering and assured that "such conduct will never be repeated".
