Ukraine war: Kyiv forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up

Published 46 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP By Hugh Schofield BBC News, París There is indignation in France after the headteacher of a Paris school resigned because of fears for his life. The head was sent death threats after he insisted that a teenage girl remove her Islamic head-covering inside the school, in accordance with French law. His name has not been made public. Two people, who had no link with the school, have been detained. The Islamist threat to…

As team valuations skyrocket, the league is weighing whether to relax ownership rules that prohibit investment from private equity funds. The biggest upcoming football event for many of the N.F.L. owners and business executives who will populate luxury boxes at the Super Bowl this weekend is not, perhaps surprisingly, the game. It actually won’t take place until six weeks later, in Orlando, Fla., when football executives gather for the National Football League’s annual meeting — an event that has particular significance this year. At the meeting, the league is expected…

Vice Media, which emerged from bankruptcy last year, is planning to cut hundreds of its more than 900 employees. Executives at Vice Media are planning to lay off several hundred of its more than 900 employees over the next week, eliminating staff from its digital publishing division, according to a company memo sent to staff on Thursday from Bruce Dixon, the chief executive. The cuts will be the latest in a series of severe cutbacks that the company has endured in recent years, winnowing the globe-spanning digital colossus to a…

Published 1 hour ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Daniela Relph Royal correspondent, in Copenhagen In the UK, there hadn’t been a new monarch for 70 years. In Denmark, it had been 52 years. But I’ve now been to two ‘coronations’ in the space of eight months. I was at Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles III last May, and at Christansborg Palace, in Copenhagen, for the proclamation of King Frederik X, on Sunday. In the UK, the centre…

Layla Moran tells the BBC her relatives are trapped in a church complex as Israeli forces operate nearby.This post was originally published on this site

Published 53 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court By Kelly Ng BBC News The release of Netflix’s series 3 Body Problem has been watched millions of times around the globe since its release late last month. It has even found an audience in China where Netflix is unavailable, sparking much chatter among viewers of the series. But many fans of the three-book series, credited with propelling China’s nascent science fiction genre after its publication in 2008, have also…